Misty, no idea on that coloration, but how cute!
Off Topic: We were stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio for almost 12 years, home of the Air Force museum. Went many times. There is a huge memorial for a plane that crashed 30 years ago when we were stationed there, with not only crew members, but two wives as well. After that, family wasn't allowed to go on training missions with the crew.
May 1981 was when it happened. The wives went on the mission to see what their husbands did. Plane was on autopilot over Maryland with wives in pilot and copilot seats. Something made it bump out of autopilot and the plane went into a dive. No one could get back to the front to fix the problem because they were naturally all thrown toward the back of the plane. The plane broke apart in the middle in the air. The youngest crew member to be killed was Randy Moffatt, just 19 years old, who we were bowling with the night before and discussing him babysitting for our young sons. He was the only member whose body was intact because he was just forward of the middle of the plane, as I understand it. The alternate person who was going to be in his place was my own husband.
Huge loss. The crew that is able goes to the Memorial every year in May.
To read more about it and see a list of the crew and family members lost, you can read here about the ARIA 328 Memorial (Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft, pronounced R-EYE-uh) : http://www.ariamemorial.com/aria328crew.html
Off Topic: We were stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio for almost 12 years, home of the Air Force museum. Went many times. There is a huge memorial for a plane that crashed 30 years ago when we were stationed there, with not only crew members, but two wives as well. After that, family wasn't allowed to go on training missions with the crew.
May 1981 was when it happened. The wives went on the mission to see what their husbands did. Plane was on autopilot over Maryland with wives in pilot and copilot seats. Something made it bump out of autopilot and the plane went into a dive. No one could get back to the front to fix the problem because they were naturally all thrown toward the back of the plane. The plane broke apart in the middle in the air. The youngest crew member to be killed was Randy Moffatt, just 19 years old, who we were bowling with the night before and discussing him babysitting for our young sons. He was the only member whose body was intact because he was just forward of the middle of the plane, as I understand it. The alternate person who was going to be in his place was my own husband.
To read more about it and see a list of the crew and family members lost, you can read here about the ARIA 328 Memorial (Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft, pronounced R-EYE-uh) : http://www.ariamemorial.com/aria328crew.html
