An unusually tranquil skyscraping vantage-a kind of front porch 850 feet in the air.

My wife always wanted a front porch.

Initially, the Scud hunting was done from the air only. From that altitude, 10,000 to 15,000 feet, to find camouflaged concealed weapons systems was a very difficult to do.

Maybe the owner's on the front porch wondering why you are here. And we have to explain to them we got a call to their house and they don't know where it came from. It's somebody's idea of a joke. It's not funny to us.

The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.

I usually fly them about 200 to 300 feet in the air, and I've had them up there for two or three days and nights at a time. This time of year, though, I have to watch the weather reports, see if there is a storm coming in.