Embarresed myself today.

[mcjohn]

I must be a pushie or something. F18 takes of at my airport. Shakes the ground. Comes screamin back around for a low overhead and I raise my arm to give him a good ol HELL YEAH! He waves back (the wings that is) and shoots almost straight up and dissappears in a 6500' BKN layer in a matter of seconds. My eyes well all up and I've got a brand new student by my side that probably thinks I'm the biggest pushie on the planet as I fight back tears of euphoria. I've seen this plenty at my airport b/c we're near Snowbird MOA but there was something about this fly over. What he did with that jet mixed with all the surrounding mountains with sun beams coming through the BKN layer was just too much.

Today was a good day.

 

[epic!]

at jqf, i was there too.

 

[mcjohn]

You have mountains at Concord!? I was at AVL!!! Might have been the same guy though. He bolted out to the NE.

 

[Eagleflip]

Ernest Hemmingway said it best, McJohn...

"You love a lot of things if you live around them. But there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, not any before, nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane. And men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in airplanes, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there is where his heart will forever be."
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I cried like a wee baby when I tried to read those words during my retirement from the Air Force.:blush: ​

 

[epic!]

must have been, i didnt get to see him take off, but i saw his f/18 on the ramp. beautiful aircraft up close

 

[HMR]

There were a few times going in and out of KMMH at night... alone... during a storm when I wanted to cry.

Is that the same?

 

[Lear Wanna Be]

Did it say VMFA-122 on it? Have a shield (like knights used) with a cross in it? Just curious....these guys did the fly-by at the NASCAR race at Bristol today.

 

[NW_Pilot]

I must be a pushie or something. F18 takes of at my airport. Shakes the ground. Comes screamin back around for a low overhead and I raise my arm to give him a good ol HELL YEAH! He waves back (the wings that is) and shoots almost straight up and dissappears in a 6500' BKN layer in a matter of seconds. My eyes well all up and I've got a brand new student by my side that probably thinks I'm the biggest pushie on the planet as I fight back tears of euphoria. I've seen this plenty at my airport b/c we're near Snowbird MOA but there was something about this fly over. What he did with that jet mixed with all the surrounding mountains with sun beams coming through the BKN layer was just too much.

Today was a good day.

I have a good photo of some jets doing touch & goes at KTUS

 

[mcjohn]

must have been, i didnt get to see him take off, but i saw his f/18 on the ramp. beautiful aircraft up close

They must have sent their F-18 pilots home b/c this thing was parked over night last night. I also saw it come in yesterday. They come in often but never stay. Funny that you mentioned seeing the same thing down near Charlotte. I think they had the weekend to see their families.

 

[mcjohn]

Did it say VMFA-122 on it? Have a shield (like knights used) with a cross in it? Just curious....these guys did the fly-by at the NASCAR race at Bristol today.

I think it did.