Just a little background...
The "pink plane" is one of our mainline 757's that is painted in a commemorative pink paint scheme to raise awareness for breast cancer research. We do 5 or 6 shows per season and try to rasie as much money as we can.
So here's your photo tour! This a little long...
On final approach to Andrews AFB...
Brandon was named pilot of the day by the base. Sadly, he has a rare form of cancer that he is battling. He is 5 years old and will likely not make to his 10th birthday. It's really heart wrenching to think about, but that's why we do this. The base gave him the red carpet treatment and shuttled Brandon and his parents from airplane ot airplane. They even had a flight suit made for him with all of the patches from the different wings at the base. We opened up the airplane to him and his parents. We think he had a blast!
Brandon and Capt. Getty Brilliant...
Brandon with two of our Flight Attendants. If the one on the right looks kind of familiar, go to YouTube and search for Deltalina. I don't want to clog the post with an embedded video...
Captain Gerry Brilliant, his sister, and her husband. Gerry and his sister lost their mother to breast cancer, and their younger sister is fighting the disease. He has done every airshow we have done with the pink plane to raise awareness...
Who is that guy on the left?
Angels over the air show...
Kat (Deltalina) with two of the base police squad. These guys don't play around. They were carrying about 30lbs ammunition each...
Neat shot down the side...
Me with a couple that I met. The woman in the chair is a survivor. I was absolutely blown away by the number of women that we gave pins to who said they were either survivors or currently battling cancer...
The woman who Patricia is hugging just bought a shirt. She lost her sister two weeks ago...
Me again...
The Geico Sky Typers...
The motley crew! All our time is volunteered. Delta provides the airplane at no cost. The Air Force graciously gave us 24,000 pounds of fuel so we actually came home with more fuel that when we left...
The line to tour the airplane exceeded 50 yards at times and was longer than an hour wait...but they did! You can see the ribbon scheme on the tail...
The last day was a washout. Due to the fact that the airplane went back into service the day after we got back we couldn't trash the carpet by having people track water through the cabin. This is the hangar for Air Force One...
It really stands out against the drab green and grey, huh?. We were the only civilian aircraft there. The small aircraft you see belong to the Customs Border Patrol...
Helicopter flight over the base approaching the show ramp...
It was a great weekend despite the rained out last day, and we raised just under $5000.00 for breast cancer research!
