The Colorado Adventure

Our WOTR work party went well. They fed us pizza and we listened to Lt.Col. George Peck talk about his adventures as a public affairs officer with the B-1 program. He met the president and showed him the plane, he took up the Brigadier Gen. in the plane, and he was at the Paris air show in ’87 showing how great the bomber was. He said that his job before the bomber program was to ‘show up in front of the smoking hole.’ If a run went as planned he did nothing, if they missed he had to stand in front of the hole and tell the public what happened. He had lots of great stories about the plane. This plane is number 3 of the bunch.

The Lt. was also the last public affairs officer at Lowry and was on the board of the Wing’s museum. After the talk we waited for the fire department to come with the hoses. One thing you need for washing a plane is water. The girls spent time sweeping the hangar beforehand.

Finally the trucks arrived and hooked us up.

A couple of guys got on top of the plane to spray it down (and the other planes in the area.)

The kid’s job was to sweep the water outside.

So, they actually cleaned the floor too. It didn’t take long for my kids to realize that if they stood under the planes’ wings they would get soaking wet.

This was just a happy by-product of sweeping. At times I think they stood directly in the line of fire from the hose. After a lot of sweeping and mopping and brushing they were ready to go.

The planes still had to be dried off, but none of the kids seemed interested in that part!

I told the volunteer lady that all they need to do to clean the place is provide pizza and a water hose; my kids will do all the rest!