Richard Lowell:  

I think it’s time for an update. October 9, 2019 Carole and I have now been married as of October 1, (53 years). Our plans are to celebrate our anniversary in Vienna, Austria in a couple weeks. Actually, as I write this update, I am here in Vienna working. I am holding off going to the city because I have to come back in a couple weeks for another aircraft and just would like to share the experience with my wife. Yes, I am still working. Look, I sit and watch a video of blades going around in an aircraft engine. Put it on a memory stick and then provide a report. What can be hard about that? The pay is good, so why stop. Soon to be 73. We still get up to MD and visit. We did so just a few weeks ago. And then have some of those Blue Crabs that we so love. Hello to all Andover 66. May 30, 2010 Immediately after graduation I signed up for the AF. It is a good thing too; the draft papers were in the mailbox the day after signing. I met my wife, Carole just months before joining. We married in October 66. I shuffled her off to California where we spent 4 years at Travis AFB, and where I picked up my trade for life working on aircraft. Then discharged in 1970 and began my working career at Delta Airlines. In 1974 I talked my wife into accepting a transfer to Atlanta with Delta, which is their home base. It is also home of Coca Cola. Does not sit with me too much, I prefer Pepsi myself. Carole grew up in Glen Burnie and attended Glen Burnie High. She worked in retail sales for many years; for the most part at Macys. Then in the last few years part-time in an Antic Shop. Now most of her time is involved with grandkids. Great grandkids too. Don't ask me how that happen. Its her, not me. I keep telling her at 63 I am way too young. She argues she's younger. For that I don't have an answer. Over the years we have enjoyed traveling. Being in the aviation business, it was easy to do. Evidently, I didnt get enough of travel through those years. I retired from Delta in 2000 and st...Expand for more