Spouse's Flight

Thursday I got to go on my very first Spouse's Flight (f-L-i-g-h-t, not fight ... Amanda).   I had an absolutely awesome time!!!  Our flight was actually a 2 ship that followed the Rhine River (I think) and flew us by about 20 castles or so.   (For those of you who don't know, Germany has castles all over the place.)    It really was an awesome flight.  During the flight I got to go up in the cockpit for about 10 minutes and then later the loadmaster opended up the back for probably 20 minutes.  There were only a few people to get sick, but I was lucky enough to not be one of those people.  Although later in the evening I had the godzilla size headache that Todd seems to think was from the flight.   Anyways, needless to say I took tons of pictures, I think the final number was over 200 (for ONLY 1 hour flight).   I'm sure it was way too many, but I just couldn't help myself.  Here's the condensed version through pictures.

Posing outside the plane (ignore the sunspot)

Sitting on top of the plane

Our plane

Buckled up and ready for take off

Our plane was followed by a 2nd plane with more spouses

View from one of the small windows

Bird's eye view of beautiful Germany

Pilot and co-pilot

Loadmaster getting his gear on before opening the back

Ta da!  The back is now opening!!

If I remember correctly, it really stunk like cow poop around this area

Self portrait just to prove I was really onboard.