Friday Photo: B-29 Superfortress Cockpit

The view: Doc’s cockpit

The pilot: My son (in his mind, absolutely)

The airplane: B-29 Superfortress

The mission: Drop the atomic bomb

The memory: My family was invited to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (KWRI) for family day to get a preview of their annual Power in the Pine Airshow. Unbeknownst to us, Doc was on the ramp and they were prepping for the show. We walked over and the Doc team immediately asked my son, “Do you want a tour of the inside?” My 8-year old son enthusiastically exclaimed “Yes!” without asking me or Mom for permission (we will let it slide this time). The tour was incredible. At the end of it, he asked me, “Dad, when they dropped the atomic bomb, how loud was it?” I replied: “I think we can still hear it today.” On a personal note: When I saw the cockpit I screamed out “Garmin!” and our Doc tour guide said, “Shhhh!” We both laughed. True story.

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Alexander Sack

Alexander Sack is an Instrument rated Commercial Pilot based in New Jersey who will at any moment spontaneously talk about airplanes. Occasionally, he pretends to be a Senior Software Engineer with decades of experience wrangling big data and designing high-performance software systems. In his copious free time, he likes to read approach plates, espouse the benefits of flight sim, and stare at Skew-T diagrams. He also has been known to read a lot of Air Facts articles over the years because a good pilot is always learning.

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