Great story.....the things we do for love and an awesome sea story!
True...I am such an aviation junkie...I have been my whole life.
When I was a kid back in the late Sixties, I used to go to the officer’s beach at Cubi Point in Subic Bay and walk all around the planes on the tarmac right in back of and above the beach...looking into the wheel wells, tailpipes, and intakes.
Could never do that now, they would have security on you so fast it would make your head spin!
Whenever anything goes over, I have to look.
Yep...always loved planes!