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This is Dave's face lighting up.
This image illustrates the importance of having adult supervision when playing with fire.
Instead of burning your fingers, let your dad do it! The bright flash in this image was
the moment when the sparkler finally caught fire. It is also one of two sparkler events
that burnt Dave's hand that day.
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The sparkler is lit, and the plane is ready for take-off and has begun to taxi out. Of
course, this image was from a flight previous to the last image - as you can see it's not
quite dark yet in this picture.
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Here, the plane has just started its take-off roll, as you can see by the trailing
sparks.
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And it's up! There was almost no need for lights in this attitude, for the sparkler
lit up the underside of the left wing quite nicely. And it wasn't even completely
dark out, yet.
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The Eagle banked up and to the left in this image, making it appear as though it passed
by a bright star shining through the clouds behind it. But really, that was the sparkler
hanging off the left wheel.
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This shot gives a little better perspective of how bright the sparklers really are. In the
night, it appeared as though the plane was on fire.
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And here's a closer overhead pass. It's a bird! It's a plane! Yes, it is a plane!
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