The sun is high in the sky and traffic is up all around the area, summertime turns all airports into very active sites. Streamline has become embedded very well at Hanscom, bringing return customers or "regulars" that have come to rely on the new service. I have started working the airport again too, and can see how many passengers disembark from the morning arrival each weekday. Commerce is continuous at this secondary airport and many moving parts come together to keep things looking good.
Meanwhile, just beyond the terminal building sits the Liberty Mutual ramp and hangar. I am very puzzled by the sight because this customer prides itself on "responsibility, what's your policy?". The insurance premiums appear to be funding a fleet of Falcon and Bombardier Global jets that are coming and going every hour or so into a ramp area with "do not enter" written around the edges and a space-age hangar that has barbed wire fences and a security gate protecting it from the public. Even the mailman must go the distance to call up the guards each day just to get them their deliveries. I would not want to do business with a company spending presumably millions of dollars annualy to keep an operation up and running for the benefit of maybe a few dozen jet setters. Just use an FBO like an honest company.
In the family my younger brother has taken up being an aviation junkie on the computer. He has been playing Airline Tycoon religiously, plotting out fleet schedules and hiring flight personnel with a budget and a mission to outperform competing airlines at bases around the world. Also two days before today, his 7th birthday, I've been told he opened up the air traffic control simulator and handled ground and local traffic at Tokyo-Haneda airport for 90 minutes simulation time like a pro and with few unanswered calls. I am impressed with his potential to be a pioneer in the sky sometime soon.
On the Purdue front, classes wrapped up with few surprises. Psychology ended up standing out as the tough reach at the end and Calculus has proven to be unattainable and will need more attention at some point in the future. Next fall's schedule of classes is dubious and will require even earlier wakeups than in the spring. I will like being back in West Lafayette as a shophomore with new adventures. Basketball star JaJuan Johnson is Boston-bound and should represent the Boilermaker style of play very well.
