Airspeed: check, altitude: check, fuel: check, sick bag: Check!!! I nearly had to have a tactical chunder at one stage but it turns out that my decision to have no breakfast was a great idea, all i needed was a few well controlled burps.
Here we all are on the ground, my opponent for the day seriously regretting his red wine breakfast and looking slightly dishevelled
And here is the proof. Red Dragon 1 flown by wee Daniel O Donnell.
And here we are on the ground, Jane and me and mysteriously my co-piot/wingman Finn "The Kid" shows up again, puzzelled as to where i had been. Next time........
What more can i say, it was an incredible experience, i dont think i can ride in a plane again without wanting a few loops and rolls included just to liven it up. It was like having a parachute jump, bungie jump, adrenaline shot and viola solo all at the same time. Oh, i nearly forgot, when I was getting into the plane, i asked Dan if i needed a callsign, he said no, but i pretended not to hear that, so we ran throuh a few and we decided on Raptor, but when Jane and the lads came out to see me off they said, no no no, that doesnt suit him, what about bunny rabbit, and true to form, Dan kept calling me Bunny Rabbit, "Ready for an inverted 4G dive then bunny rabbit"? "Wanna take the stick bunny rabbit"? i'd like to think i showed a bit of raptor when i asked could we do the stall again though. I think that was his favourite/scariest maneuver too so that straightened it all out.
Thanks to all the lads at fighter combat international, thanks to Jane for an amazing birthday present and thanks to the russians aviation engineers for designing such freaking outstanding ways for a viola player to loose his lunch,.......... empty sick bag komradskis!!!, Ruski's zero, Charlie one. Nostrovia.
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