Brett

And you may know that George H.W.

Bush, President of the United States, flew this aircraft, the Avenger torpedo bomber, and actually had to ditch a Avenger torpedo bomber after one of his missions and actually was rescued by a submarine.

Other members of his flight who had to ditch weren't so lucky.

They were actually captured by the Japanese and executed, so...

Amazing how important parts of history can turn on such small things.

So this is a very common plane.

We're now post-World War II, but we're still sort of maintaining our readiness and still training.

You're always preparing for the last war, right?

So we're training in these bombers, and that's what we're doing.

We have this group of trainees who are in Fort Lauderdale, and they're going to be trained on how to fly these things, how to navigate with them,

and how to bring them home.

So this squadron was to take off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, fly east for 56 miles to a place called Hens and Chickens Shoals, which is a great name, number one.

But number two, you can also tell just how unimportant this place was to be called Hens and Chickens.

So this is just some rocks that basically stick out of the water near Bimini.

So they're flying almost directly east.

They hit this location and then they practice their torpedo bombing.

So basically they take turns acting like they're going in to drop their torpedoes.

And then when they do all that, they continue a little bit on Bimini.

a little further east before turning.

And then they're going to fly north 67 miles over Grand Bahama Island before turning once again and flying the 120 miles back to base in Fort Lauderdale.