Maggie,
I'm prepared to cut you as much slack as you need, anytime you need it.
BTW, that's "Wing Wiper" not "flyboy" I was non rated. (20-300 or so at that time :( ) R&D and procurement engineer, and later technical intelligence. But I've been an airplane freak ever since I can remember. I remember watching Air Force recruitment films at the state fair, over and over, when I was just barely old enough to be allowed to cross the street from the horse barns, and to be by myself. (Another time and place, I wouldn't allow a kid half again my age to be alone at the fair now, even though the fair is no bigger now than then, and it's in the same physical location, although a week later in the year).
It was even before your Alaska adventures. Let's see they had an Edsel on display in that same building.... hmm, I guess that would make it 1958 or '59 (Edsel was introduced in September of '57 but I kinda doubt they had one at the Nebraska fair that year and canceled in November of '59). I would have been two months shy of 9 or 10.