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North American Harvard MK. IV |
"Are you with the school?", she asked.
"No, I'm with "him"", I answered, supposing she knew who I was talking about. I smiled and proceeded to go grab the cup of coffee I just paid for.
I sat down not too far from a table where a bunch of old men were sitting, talking about planes, proudly wearing sweaters and jackets with logos that I couldn't properly identify but supposed it was either reprensenting veterans or the museum, or both. One of them was mumbling so much that I thought he was speaking chinese at first. Though I didn't truly listen to what they were saying as it would have been a bit impolite, the sound of their voices was soothing and I let my thoughts drift away as I looked at, I would shortly discover, a DC-3 that has flown the equivalent of 492 times around the world in mileage.
There is definitly something beyond description about the museum. Though I have an extremely limited knowledge about the evolution of aviation through the years or even the war in general, I can't help myself but to be in complete admiration about it. Walking in there, surrounded by such beautiful machines, designed and re-designed constantly, so much thoughts and efforts, so much devotion for a dream came true; Men can fly. There is much, much more to it than I can see, but I feel it through others, like him, and to my eyes there is nothing more beautiful than this; Passion.
It reminds me of the first time I went to work. As I was walking towards my little airplane, a Dash-8 100, I remember thinking how beautiful it was and how big of a smile I had. The weirdest part being that I don't even know how to fly but it surely doesn't stop me from loving it. Even during the training I was the only one of the group to walk around, touch the aircrafts and ask a thousand questions about them. Maybe one day... I will fly too.
Now, I am sitting here with a coffee but there are no old men telling stories, there are no conqueror of the skies surrounding me, the smell of oil and engines is gone and I am wondering if I will ever go back there again.