Thanks for posting the links folks - and thanks for watching!
A little inside baseball - we tried to arrange this last year when the book came out, but COVID wouldn’t allow the CBS folks to travel, and they really wanted to fly with me. So when they called back this spring, we were pretty happy that they had remembered! We arranged the date, and set the schedule up so we could fly several airplanes, do some Air to Air with Louise flying, and really get a bunch of video.
So of course….the day arrives, and we have winds at 20 knots, gusting to 30 first thing in the morning, and predicted to only get worse as the day progressed! At least they were more or less down the runway. So the guys arrived, and we said “if we’re going to fly, we have to go NOW!” They put a couple of GoPros on the Valkyrie in a hurry, and we launched, with me thinking “great, all I have to do is get him up for a little flight and land in this wind once.” So we’re three miles out, climbing away, and Louise comes on the radio “Uh, Iron….we need you to come back - they forgot to turn on the GoPros!”
So…..had to land in the gusts, turn on the cameras, and then do the flight again. So when you see the wing rock on landing, realize that the winds were by then gusting to 35! At least they were down the runway……more or less….
Paul