Nicholas doing his thing

This past weekend N was called to the scene of a 4 wheeler accident. A teenage kid was hurt pretty bad and he landed in the family’s front yard to pick him up. One of the fire fighters there took some pictures while they were coming in and once they were on the ground. N told me it was a really tight landing area with wires on all sides of him. He also said that pretty much everyone in the area had come out to see them come in to land and I said had that been on Howard Roberts Rd I would have expected the same outcome!

The blades are no flexed here, shutter speed is just so slow on the camera that it makes them look all crazy! (I had to ask)

On Monday I got back to Birmingham right before noon and decided to go up to the Hangar and surprise N but I went a way that I’ve never been before so I got a little turned around and it took me a few more minutes to get there than I had planned. Right as I was coming up the hill to his job I heard the rotors and thought “crap, please be Childrens!!” Nope, it was him! I got to see a few seconds of him taking off and since the dogs were so antsy I just headed back home. I sent him a text saying “I know you are flying I watched you leave” and he called a few mins later saying he was at UAB and would be heading back to the hangar in a few mins if I wanted to come back and watch him land. I jumped in the car and headed back up there and got to see him come in and land. I took some video but my camera battery completely died before he touched down so it’s not that great at all. In the 7 yrs he flew in the Army I got to see him fly maybe 4 times, he’s been at this job less than a month and I’ve already been able to see him. Pretty cool.

He is off this week and yesterday was the perfect first day to be off work. It rained most of the day and we were super lazy. Today we went out and had lunch and ran some errands and explored and tomorrow we are going down south of Birmingham to the Homewood area to check that out. We have a lot more to see! I’m looking forward to it!