I bet you have some great stories you can't tell.
Thank you for your service!
ps. There was a great Thunderstorm documentary on one of the science channels a while back where an international group of pilots and planes went to Australia to study some unique phenomenon. They flew everything from a GA plane, to the Russian a/c pictured above, to Rutan's White Night - getting data from an altitude of a few hundred feet to however high the Russians can go.