Rendezvous II
Copyright© 2017 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 31
Hairy
After visiting with Charlie, I discovered he only wanted seven grand and change to recover his time and parts money. I let him run my card ... it cleared. The girls ... knowing they were meeting a rival for my affections decided they needed to gussy. Overawing the competition ... so to speak.
While Amy and I were waiting, I was humming under my breath.
“What is that you’re humming?” she asked.
“Remembrances of past lives,” I said ... Oops.
In for a penny in for a pound...”It’s a Sioux war chant. I used to sing it before battle. The words say,
A wolf, I considered myself.
But I have eaten nothing,
Therefore from standing I am tired out.
A wolf, I considered myself
But the owls are hooting,
And, I fear the night. (Wiki)
She stood, looking at me like I’d lost my mind.
The ladies were gone so long I began to worry.
“Quit fidgeting,” Amy commanded, “God. You’re as bad as a five year old.”
“I’m about to leave ‘em behind,” I complained.
“Not on my watch,” she said. “I have to work with them.”
I was getting ready to call Karen and cancel when the red 450 pulled in.
“You’re standing here?” said Roz, “Lets go.”
I took up the Check List.
“You haven’t done that yet?” said Rachael. “What have you been doing?”
“Waiting for you,” I said. Bad move ... very bad.
I didn’t get any peace until the hood closed and Amy said no distractions.
I spent most of the flight north under the hood, so I didn’t get to see the sights that were causing the “oohs” and “aahs” from Rachael and Roslyn. Amy was too busy watching the indicators on her side of the Beech to join in.
The pair of Pratt & Whitney R 985 AN-3 Wasp Junior radials had a rating of 450 horsepower, a cruise of just double the cruise of the Cessna 150 and three times the range. I wasn’t flogging it but we were moving right smartly.
We made ... I made ... the proper requests of the Tower at Buffalo. They had an outdated IFR system but it worked.
At the last minute Amy said, “My aircraft.” And wrested the controls away from me.
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