Friend #2

Everybody rationalized it as give the man space. We knew what he was going through with the family by this point.

We had conversations all the time about, where's Mike? Have you seen Mike? Have you heard from Mike?

We were both volunteers for the Precious Metal Air Racing Team. Reno Air Racing has been compared to NASCAR of the sky. It's multiple planes on a closed course at one time. Speeds are up to 500 miles per hour. You're 50 feet off the ground. It's a huge adrenaline rush. We spent several years, several long nights, sometimes three days in a row working on the plane together.

The people who described him as a genius, I would agree. He just took care of it. He knew that the job was going to be completed as it should.

He was sleeping, living basically at the hangar. There was like a meeting room with some nice, big, comfortable couches. There was a shower there and a bathroom.

There was a time where I think Mike just needed to know what was going on at home. He and a friend would fly over Mike's house just to see whose truck was in the driveway, maybe just to make sure nobody was there.