What a feeling that must be.

The first thing I want to say is Ho-lee shiT! Harrier jump jets are the coolest things I've ever seen. Watching a pilot put one of those monstrous machines through it's paces will take your breath away. It looked like Showring Dressage Class for jets. The first thing it did was streak by at about 1.5 million MPH. If ya blinked, ya missed 'im. Then he does the go-straight-up-til-ya-pass-by-a-satellite thing and the 'free fall' back down to about 6 feet off the ground. Then he shoots off again and comes back by going about 50 MPH. How anything can go that slow and not fall....amazing. Then, in mid-air, he stops. In MID AIR! Then, like it's no big deal, he goes backwards for a while. Then, he hovers again, spins on a dime, goes side to side, like right to left and back in a straight line while facing the crowd. Then he turns back with the runway under him the right way, hangs there for a few minutes, then shoots straight up, goin' about 0-6000 in 4.6 seconds. It was fuckin' awesome. I don't know why, but it had me choking up a little and there were tears forming watching this. My heart was GONE.

The first thing going through my mind, was the thought of how cool beyond description it must feel to control that much power. (If ya hear Tim Allen grunting, good. So do I.) To be able to DO those things with that jet.... I'll bet ya there's not one Naval or Air Force pilot on the planet with a low-self-esteem problem. If they ever even start feeling like that, somebody should just show them a videotape of themselves doing that stuff. Then, they'll see and remember how unbelieveably awesome they are. I know how good it feels to ride a well-trained horse that you trained yourself and look good doing it. I'm assuming that doing those maneuvers with those jets feels like that....times a thousand, at least.

My next thoughts came to me while we were watching a Stealth bomber sneak around up there. When one a those things is right over top of you and you don't hear much engine...it messes with your mind. I just kept thinking that if I were one of those fucknoodles bin Laden or Heussein, I'd just shit myself if I pissed off people who had jets like these to come after my ass with. You wouldn't even need to have 'em armed. Just fly what looks like a regular fighter jet over top of me and have it STOP. And, hang there. Then spin and shoot straight up. If I hadn't yet just dissolved into the ground out of terror, you'd be able to finish me off with the Stealth. Let me see that space craft lookin' booger over top my head....Uh-huh. I'd be peein' right into my Harley boots. I always thought those Iraqi's were a little deranged, blowing themselves up along with everybody else with suicide bombs. But, they're even more fucked up than I thought. They know we have these things. And still, they wanna play. Insane bastards.

Last year, they had a Peterbilt tractor with a jet engine powering it. That thing went alllll the way down to the end of this one runway. He sat there, warming it up I guess. They had a plane, mid-sized like a 6 or 8 passenger private jet, come flying up from behind this truck. At a certain point, the guy driving the truck takes off. When the plane catches up with him and pulls ahead a little, the guy driving the truck fires the jet engine and this fuckin' Peterbilt smokes the airplane. It was like the ultimate Redneck wet dream. A white Peterbilt tractor, with 60 feet of flames flyin' out behind it, while it beats the shit outta an airplane, speed-wise. Incredible.

Getting there-to the air show- is a whole 'nother story. Rick was a pain, of course, but just seeing the jump jet made it woth that and the four mile hike we ended up on. More about that later.

I do believe I'm gonna try a little fishing. I got some big-assed night crawlers last night after the rain stopped. Some of those things look like small snakes.

I shall return.

Posted by: Stevie at 06:16 PM

Comments

Posted by: greg at September 14, 2003 10:22 PM (LaTAt)

2 Looks like you had a good time

I've always wanted a Harrier, but my parents never bought me one

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2003 10:45 PM (jtW2s)

Posted by: Ted at September 15, 2003 07:49 PM (2sKfR)

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