Quote Originally Posted by Paqman View Post
I got to go for a ride in an Aermacchi MB-339 when I was a groundie in the airforce. Fantastic!

Also recently flew a glider for the first time. I'd seen winch launches before, but I had no idea what a rush they were. That's got to be the closest thing to a catapult launch off an aircraft carrier.
Cooool!

I remember working at the airport (I washed, cleaned and prepped charter planes and club rentals) and an Air Force pilot who was flying by the area (on his way to an airshow I believe) told his mother (grandmother?) to go to the airport on a specific afternoon and he would do a fly-by... in a B1 Bomber! That was soo cool because that thing is HUGE! It's a fair-sized airplort but not huge so it looked like you could reach up and touch it, it was so close!

After it continued on it's way, all we could hear was every car in the mall parking lot across the street had gone off!