Toddler Horrors of Aeronautics

These are two photos you never want to see if you are an astronaut or a pilot. First up is my boy in the co-pilot’s chair of a MD-80. This was on display at the Hampton Air and Space Museum, which the family stopped at on the way to the Outer Banks for a much needed weeklong vacation. Seriously, if the pilot drops dead and no one is left to land the plane, this is the last person you want to see as you pass the cockpit:

Also, if you are at Mission Control, this is the last view you would see of the Mars Rover.  Cartney snuck under the barricade and assaulted either the mockup model of the Rover or maybe a beta version of the vehicle.  Thankfully no one was looking as he was slapping the solar panels:

He kept shaking it and no martians fell out. Oh by the way, Cartney turned two years old today, and in case you were wondering, yes, the “terrible twos” have started already- he got a head start on that a few weeks ago.