February 15Feb 15 Brian Cox takes a flight in the English Electric Lightning. A video from some years back. View of the thin blue line. Maybe we'd take more care of it if more saw it from this perspective.
February 15Feb 15 I've never had the experience Brian had but I have had some exciting rides (for me) in a couple of military jets. When I was in Japan I asked a pilot in our University of Maryland history class for a ride in a T-Bird (T-33). One Friday afternoon we went up and he performed a few rolls. When I was stationed in the airmunitions test squadron at Hill AFB in Utah I got a few rides in the back seats of our F-100F and B-57 on airmuntions test flights on the range at the west end of the Great Salt lake firing rockets or dropping bombs on a variety of targets like aircraft revetments and supposedly bomb proof shelters. When I was building time for my commercial rating I once told my flight instructor I had never experienced motion sickness. He bet me a bottle of Jack Daniels he cold make me sick in an airplane. We went up in the Citabria and he turned that thing every whichway but loose. I walked home the bottle of booze the next day. I envy you Brian. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
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