A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

It's primarily a research craft. We do a lot of work with the Environmental Research Lab. I've photographed every inch of the Colorado River from the Grand Canyon down through Mexico to the Sea of Cortez.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

We did this deal basically to increase and mutually combine our resources in the areas of research and development. It's difficult to offer any more perspective other than what we've disclosed.

The great big city's a wond'rous toy just made for a girl and boy

The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either design problems or as we are saying, voltage support weaknesses in this system that have to be addressed,