Except as noted, all images copyrighted by and should be attributed to E B Hawley.
I had become many eons ago a traveling literary gnome, inquisitive about places I had and had not visited,
walking the same paths of peoples from the past, through places once grand and still grand,
photographing images that now show me the places about which I still dream . . .

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Tour by Pops

Crew Chief Pops opened the doors to one of the hangars at Sheppard Air Force Base.

The aircraft mechanics ensure safe airplanes for the pilots.

Powerful thrusters on a fighter jet.

Though serving as training tools for students, the aircraft look impressive nonetheless.

We sat in the pilot's seat.

Pops revealed a small door.

A B-52 requires wheels at the end of each wing due to their weight. Here, I show the wings empty of fuel, lessening their weight. At full tanks, the wings dip toward the ground. 

Inside the front wheel well. 

Walking around the large aircraft provided for artistic views of curves and asymmetry. 

A 130 sat nearby, looking impressive, too.

A 135 and a 130 standing behind it.

The planes require chains for tethers. That's the tower in the background. 

The frightening A-10.

A mechanic's design.
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JMHawley Gave Me a Kiss to Build a Dream On

Listen, will you? I think that . . . literature, poetry, music and love make the world go round . . . while mathematics explains things; I fill my life with them, then go walking in snowy woods.
Let us go then, you and I
like two etherized patients floating
through life, together feeling prufrockian.
DDB Jr. makes my world go 'round; during his absence, Pachelbel fills it up.
One summer I sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, then through the Gulf of Finland to reach Saint Petersburg; I pursued Joseph Brodsky in its alley ways. I dream of making that two summers.
I read “Biking to Electra;” found my way in a Jaguar car, and glanced at the flashing steel grasshoppers at sunset. I’ll follow K.O.P.’s footsteps after he followed N.Scott Momaday’s; find warmth and inspiration on a rainy mountain.
Throw chinese coins for the I Ching.
Save the whales, the spotted owl, the woman in toil.
Cast a fly for trout; my memories of fly fishing under the sunny blue Colorado sky remain; I yearn to build more . . . with more trophy Browns.
Listen for the swan’s calls on the Baltic Sea. Feel KKII's joy, his arms spread wide in Yazilikaya.
Good night, Jimmy Durante, where ever you are.