Lunch with Cynthia

Cynthia standing beside a T-33 Shooting Star at Langley Airport

It had been a while since I had seen David and Cynthia. David and I had set up a lunch some weeks ago but it didn’t work out. However, yesterday, the 9th of October, we were able to get together. We met at Adrian’s at the Airport in the new dining room. Cynthia is certainly growing and she is becoming really pretty.

We had a great lunch and I had a chance to talk to Jim, the owner, about having a Christmas Party there this year. 

While I was talking with Cynthia the subject of airplanes came up and she expressed an interest in them. That caught me by surprise. I had no idea that aviation was a thing for her. So I asked if she would like to drop by the aviation museum which was right next door at the Langley Airport. She jumped at the suggestion. So after lunch we went over to the Museum of Flight for an hour.

Cynthia is standing with her father, David, in the yard of the Museum of Flight. It is a small museum with only a few airplanes but it is well worth the visit. Grandpa Bill was involved with the Museum in its early days.

Cynthia standing beside a Canadian Forces CF-104 “Starfighter”.

Here Cynthia is getting into a de Havilland CF-100 twin engine fighter. This aircraft was designed in built at Malton Airport in Toronto. I used to see them all the time at the airport and in the sky over Toronto when I was in High School.

Cynthia wanted to sit in the cockpit of every aircraft with an open canopy.

Finally, here is Cynthia in the cockpit of a CT-114 “Tutor” jet trainer used by the Canadian Forces from the wearly 60’s till around 2000.

The Langley “Museum of Flight” is not a large or well funded collection of planes and static displays but that is also its charm. You can walk around the aircraft, touch them, climb into many of them. In a way, it is better than a larger museum where you must keep your distance.

We walked through every display and examined every plane in the yard. If it was possible to get into one of the planes Cynthia did it. It really held her interest and on the way out she was into the gift shop to find a souvenir.

I had to leave before Dave and Cynthia because I had set up a visit with my sister Ann so I left them in the gift shop.

I didn’t know Cynthia was interested in aviation. I guess it runs in the family. Who knows! Maybe Air Canada will claim another of us.