I squeeze in behind his seat in this one-person capsule. We rise 55 feet. Looking down, big trucks look like toys. Provost points the 50-foot boom like a long yellow finger at the plane. The boom has two hoses on its end and Provost controls the boom and hoses with a joystick, like a video game.
Flaps look okay.
Those are air brakes. When the aircraft lands those squares lift up and it breaks the lift off the wing and slows down the aircraft. Makes sure they're clean. We're over the wing spraying hard. And when we move in close over the plane the engine blast shakes the little cab like the earthquake ride at Universal Studios.