Mike Durant

And if a little bird's got to do a go around, you know it's dusty because they don't generate nearly as much dust as we do.

And now I'm...

I can't go around because if I go around, it's like, you know, when you're flying commercially and ATC tells the aircraft, you know, hold.

I mean, you know, it just takes too much time to make a loop.

So we just decel.

So I'm holding my flight off because I got to let that little bird come around, get back in, get his guys off and come out.

And until I see him break the dust cloud, I can't close on the same locations.

So we're flying pretty slow at this point, but we're trying to get in right on his tail.

Doesn't matter, other than we're a little bit more vulnerable because we're flying fairly slowly, but they didn't get any shots off at us at that point that I know of.

Anyway, we get in our box formation.

Everybody's roping in.

It was super dusty.

The only thing that I could see was a telephone pole out my chin bubble.

And that's how I'm maintaining my position.

I'm flying again on this one.

You know, I keep talking about me flying.

Ray and I, who was my co-pilot, we were rotating missions.

He would fly one.

I would fly one.

And this just happened to be the day that I was flying.