Captain Benjamin Aerni (Grandson, 11 years old) commanding "Charlie" as we pull her out of the High School parking lot to begin the parade. His co-pilot is Marine Corps League member Dick Williams, in excess of 70 years old.  Without a doubt the largest spread ever of ages between a pilot and co-pilot.  But, despite the age difference, Dick did a superb job as co-pilot,  the job of a co-pilot being "Say nothing;  touch nothing."

Benjamin is wearing a 50's vintage U.S. Navy flight helmet.

Here is Charlie just prior to departure. Army/airborne  side.  At first it looked like we were going to be the very last item in the parade.  When approached, the traffic co-ordinator said he thought we would be too slow and would hold up other cars.  When told that Charlie could keep up with the rest of the machines, he let us mingle in right away into the middle of the parade.

John Kazar drives his 1953 vintage M38-A-1 jeep, towing Charlie.

Thank you Mike.

His buddy, Rob Goodyear was following right behind the helicopter in a 1955 jeep, same model.  We had ourselves a caravan.  (For a short while.)

I rode beside Rob in the trailing jeep because I wanted to make sure that Charlie's tail did not endanger anyone as we made the wide turn onto Division street.  Then I went back and rode with Rob in his jeep to watch from behind in case there were any problems.  It turns out riding behind became the problem!