. >> thanks to erik larsen and all of you for attending this session. [applause] >> thanks very much. >> it was a small airport in the 20s and the military came and established a base in the second world war and it was a very active base and it was an attribute to yuma until the second world war ended and it closed and the little town had 9,000 population and it was dwindling because there was no construction going. to reason had not been established. and the town had not a very bright future. population was dwindling, the junior chamber of commerce said something had to be done to attract attention to our good weather and tried to get the air base reactivated. they came up with an endurance flight because every time the flight was mentioned they said yuma, arizona and get to know about the interest in reactivating the air base of the first attempt failed and in august they stated several days and then had a major problem and it was hot, really hot, people said we would go up two or tweak thousand feet and it took of while to get parts and repairs done