Lenny Duckett stands next to a giant fire truck that will be on display this weekend at “100 Years of Flight” at Malcom-McKinnon Airport. (Michael Hall/The Brunswick News)

Lenny Duckett is not quite sure how motorists will react when they see him behind the wheel of the yellow fire truck that’s posted at the Brunswick Golden Isles Airport.

But see him they will if they happen to be on the highway this afternoon.

That’s when the Glynn County firefighter will drive the huge engine – which is 10 feet wide – from the mainland airport to McKinnon St. Simons Airport, where it be part of the 100 years of flight celebration.

“It’s definitely going to turn some heads,” he said.

“First of all, most people have probably never seen a truck like it before, and second, it’s just a monster.”

The $700,000 engine, the county’s newest fire-fighting equipment which the department has named Striker, is specially designed to tackle plane crashes with its huge storage of foam.

It will leave its home base at Fire Station No. 5 at 4 p.m. It will travel down Spur 25 to U.S. 17, and then cross F.J. Torras Causeway to St. Simons Island, where it will be escorted across Demere Road to the island airport.

The airport is the site of “Adventures in Aviation: A Celebration of 100 years of Flight in Georgia,” a festival that will begin at 4 p.m. It’s being held in observance of the first airplane flight in Georgia, which took place in Athens a century ago.

The truck will be on display until 7 p.m., giving observers the chance to get close to the giant engine.

“We want to show it off and let people on the island know what we have over here,” Duckett said.

It will cost the county a few dollars to get it to the island. Striker gets only about 1.8 mile to a gallon of fuel.