FYI . . . . the smiling gentleman with the white shirt around his neck in the background of the first picture, is retired Major David Kendall, one of the two CF-18 pilots who fired on an Iraqi gunboat in the first Gulf War.
http://www.richthistle.com/aviation-...n-the-gulf-war
He and Capt. Erickson are related. There is a third former pilot in the family line as well.
Cowperson