Interesting thread. I fly for a major airline and love my job.

When I go to work, it’s like a mini vacation for me. I get to see different places and experience different challenges on every flight. No two trips are the same. On layovers, I get to hike mountain trails on beautiful days, play pinball at different museums and arcades across the country, and sample some of the best bbq and beers all across the USA. Home is where the work and projects are, lol.

The coolest flying thing I’ve ever seen happened back when I was in college. I had a summer job where we did weather modification (cloud seeding) in western North Dakota/Eastern Montana. One evening, as we were flying below the cloud bases, seeding a typical thunderstorm system, a large neon green glowing ball dropped out of the clouds in front of us. It fell for only a few seconds, till it was about 3000-4000’ below us, before exploding in a white flash. The guys in another plane behind us, saw it as well, so I knew I wasn’t seeing things or had some weird optical illusion. Our only guess is that it was ball lightning, something I’d only read about till that point.

My next major endeavor is to build my own airplane. I’ve already got an RV-10 tail kit that is sitting in my garage, but I don’t want to start on it till I’ve made some major headway on my Ebd restoration project currently underway. I don’t care to have two life altering projects going on at the same time, while still staying married and trying to keep my sanity, lol!