My friend David Bohrer and I in front of the West Wing. David is the personal photographer for Dick Cheney.
My mom and I. Yes, it rained while we were there.
This guy was just too cool hanging out. I love ducks. 
I couln't resist taking photos of these baby duckies. Soooo cute!
The money maker.
Pic inside the media room.It was a short trip, just two days, but a great experience. My friend David Bohrer works at the White House so my mom and I got a private tour of the West Wing. Wish we could have stayed longer to see all the sites but had to get back to work.
By the way, my new favorite airline is Virgin America. There's just not enough room to type about all the great things about them. The online booking as well as the 800 number customer service was so easy and super thorough. They are fairly new, so not flying into too many places, but from now on before I travel, I will be looking to see if they fly there first. They are super modern. The plane is beautiful on the inside. So many gadgets, way more then jet blue. The safety briefing before flight you actually pay attention to because it's on the monitor in front of you in the seat and it's a funny cartoon. You can't help but watch and laugh. The most important thing....the customer service. The flight attendants and pilots are so much fun. They are super nice and very very attentive to everyone on board. The result of this modern jet and great crew was very happy passengers. I've never seen so many people in a good mood about traveling and enjoying their plane ride. The vibe onboard was great. Love ya Virgin America......please start to fly to more places soooooon.
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Desiree it's too bad you didn't have more time to spend in DC. That is such a neat place to visit. When you went to the capitol building, you probably passed the National Air and Space museum there on the National Mall. :) I could spend weeks in there. There's also a new facility for the Smithsonian out at Dulles that's much bigger . Has a Concorde, the space shuttle Enterprise, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, all sorts of really fascinating stuff. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing actually smells like money inside when you take the tour. I hope you get a chance to go back and spend some more time there.
Hey kiddo how's it goin?
Such a treat to get under the skin of the White House with David Bohrer by your side, WOW!
A Director saw me walking around with a film camera on his set one day and was shocked that someone in this digital age would still do that. I further freaked him out when I told him I had a darkroom studio. We immediately became friends because his passion was still photograph.
Each day we would share our prints, shooting experiences and insights in between takes. On the last day of filming he gave me a beautiful book done by the White House photographer Jacques Lowe who covered the JFK Administration titled "JFK Remembered."
Jacques Lowe was not one to tell his subjects to "look over here" or
"hold your hand this way." He was the silent figure on the edge looking in who created the visual intimacy of what would become "Camelot".
He showed us Jackie and John, Caroline and many others in a B&W world filled with natural light.
I highly recommend this book to everyone who appreciates history and the B&W image. It is beautiful.
I'm gonna enjoy this weekend Dez, it's been a long haul. I think I'll start out with a nice red in a nice glass.
Desiree,
Nice pictures in D.C. Looks like you had a great time--can't beat a private tour of the White House. Cute little ducks, too. When I was a little kid, MacArthur Park in Los Angeles had battery-powered boats that you could ride in. My dad, mom, sister and I were all in one boat and a mother duck and about a half dozen baby ducks swam right by our boat. They were so cute, I couldn't resist picking up one of the ducklings. Big mistake. Mom flew right into the boat to attack me. Startled (and scared), I dropped junior inside the boat. My dad pushed the mother out and then he picked up the little duck and put him back in the water. No one was hurt, duck or human.
Fly safely,
Richard
Desiree,
You've probably seen it already, but there is a great link at the bottom of the Wikipedia page you gave us for the Sikorsky S-58. It is on the Wright R-1820 radial engine--lots of information and great pictures of the engine.
Wright R-1820
Desiree,
Glad to you got to visit my hometown!!! Do you know why the Washington Monument has two different shades of stone... During the civil war construction was halted and when it commenced no stone from the original seam was available...Thus the change in color 152 feet up, Random trivia I know. If you make it out to the A & S Dulles annex Check Out the movie Helicopters Straight up in action my Friend Joe is the pilot in the Spark chasing sequence.... Nothing like flying next to powerlines intentionally Check it out- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3q9WdjD5wc ENJOY!! DZ
Hi Desiree my name is Jack Edwards and I emailed you before about TRU TV Skyracers. Well I am emailing to tell you about my new youtube site which is www.youtube.com/helicopterjack. I was lucky enough to get real close to the tarmac where the public couldn't go to get some cool shots of all of the helicopters at the American Heroes Helicopter Air Show in Seattle, WA June 14. Thanks Desiree.
-Jack
Hi Dez!
Wow, did we ever get an air show the other day out around Cougar Buttes which is doubling Tunisia, Africa.
Steve Hinton and another driver flew P-40's through a rocky gorge where we had set up a column of Panzer's, trucks, half tracks and Afrika Korp troops.
On cue Steve Hinton and his wing man throttled those Allison engines and dropped down to -25' from the deck and aimed for us.
Nothing like seeing a war bird pointing it's spinner in your direction and swooping down.You felt the engines resonance in your chest as they shot over your head.Beautiful!!
SPFX detonated their charges perfectly filling the air with fire, smoke, silica, chalk and cork which dusted all of us. Good times!
Leaving latter this afternoon to do it all again for a few more days, yahoo!!
Have a great week!!
Chris said, "The more I read about long line flight, the more my mind keeps interrupting with the phrase H/V diagram! Isn't virtually all long line flight on the wrong side of H/V curves?"
Chris, since I followed the link you provided and know what an H/V diagram is, my mind's doing the same thing. This is one of the reasons I admire Desiree so much. I'm sure I will never experience the same joy she gets out of life, because if I were going to have to be on the wrong side of an H/V curve virtually all the time, I would have to tell ‘em, "Good luck carrying those air conditioners up the stairs."
Richard
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