No, those were two different events, somewhat related. My wife used to work at the National Air and Space Museum. It was her idea to have a fly-in event at the museum (there is a taxiway between IAD and the Udvar-Hazy center that takes the management of the museum, the airport, TSA, FAA, and a lot of other bureaucracy to get open). After the fly-in, the pilots and volunteers were invited over to our house for a cookout. My job during this event was to lead a train of aircraft from the Landmark ramp down to the museum. I handled the communications as a flight of N aircraft (there are three different ground frequencies involved). I always put something distinctive as tail end charlie. One year it was John and Martha in the Falcon Jet. My other job was cooking the food for the cookout and John and Martha came and Jerrie Mock sat back drinking vodka-and-tonics until the wee hours (and was up and raring to go in the morning).
The other event was the one night we had to get cleaned up at Oshkosh every year. The Smithsonian hosted a heavy hitters dinner. For a long time we sat at the kiddie table (notably with Brent Blue and a few of the "kids" of the other heavy hitters). But we rose up in status over time. It was there I got to meet people like Clay Anderson, Carol Shelby, Baron Hilton, Jim Lovell, Sully, etc... The highlight of the evening was always when Bob Hoover arrived. Nobody else caused the entire room to hush when he walked in.
So anyhow, it's my wife you should interview. I was just along for the ride.
Do they argue in front of a Green Screen? lol
