Remarks: Grimes Flying Lab lighting test aircraft for the Grimes Company of Urbana, Ohio. The aircraft was built as a transport for the U.S. Air Force in 1953, sold as surplus in 1960, and eventually acquired by Warren Grimes in 1963 for conversion to a lighting testbed..
Remarks: shortly after take off from runway 8R onboard Alitalia's I-DISO, we were powering out of Miami, operating flight AZ 631 to Rome. We had a nice overview of the eastern part of the airport, including some AA and LAN aircrafts. A long night flight is ahead of us..
Remarks: SFC used the Baron as a cross country navigation trainer from their Jandakot based flying college. Students would then go on to the Lear 45 flying from Maroochydore in Queensland.