. ‘Agricultural aircraft’. I grew up, they were ‘cropdusters’, even though most of the applications were sprayed. These things used to be all ...ver the place, and this one was about as generic for the type as it could be.Logbooks. I’m a licensed airframe and powerplant – A&P – licensed mechanic with an inspection authorization. That means I can say whether a plane flies or not. I’m looking through the books of this thing. It’s a dinosaur, relatively speaking, a relic of a bygone age when. Well im so glad you did young man, its funny he said, i was only talking about you to Charlie not so long ago,when we were having dinner in here together and we were talking about old times and your name was mentioned,my heart started to flutter when he said that, oh i said why was that, il show you, with that he turned on his computor and said pull up a chair, so i did and he said would you like a drink, yes please,so he went off and when he came back he had suddenly changed into that old. It was something we did every weekend. But when the work load got too heavy we had to stop.’ I was staring at the floor, afraid to speak, to move. ‘We were in Nashville,’ he went on. ‘I talked her into going out with me. We were having such a wonderful time. She seemed happy. I didn’t even know that anything was wrong until she collapsed on the floor. She died before I got her to the hospital. I shouldn’t have taken her out.’ He took a staggering breath, looking at me. ‘I know this is. She nods, lip poking out as renewed tears descend. "Good girl", and I step back to reveal my latest invention of pleasure. Megan stares in wonder, as I slide it towards her. A wheel fastened with, what looks like eight inch leather straps - obviously a whipping machine. "No darling, I wouldn't just create something so one dimensional. What you don't see is the air compressor which supplies pounds of air that not only propel this wheel to turn at any given speed, but with this valve here, I can.