Ships passing in the night

Why do the holidays always get so crazy? Since Thanksgiving, we've had lots of long hours and two business trips between the two of us. And of course, the end of my trip overlapped just enough with the beginning of hers - 6 hours - that we missed each other at the airport. Ah well.

Corinne was in Orlando for an AIAA conference and committee meeting, while I was sent to Slidell, Louisiana for a flight exercise. Not as an operator, but just to ensure that the results of those late night coding sessions didn't do bad things to the aircraft. :)

Thought you might enjoy a few photos from my trip.


Inside the Winnebago that acted as our ground control station. Pretty sweet setup.


The outside of "the Winnie". We spent some long hours here. (Luckily, nobody slept here)


The plane, ~1 second before capture. (That's the Skyhook it's about to fly into)

- Mike (& Corinne)