Originally Posted by
JollyF15
As far as being happy---Have you ever been at 30,000 feet in an F-15 about to split S on a train of F-16's at Cope Thunder? That's about as good as it gets, I was very happy that day and many others.
Hehehe!! Don't we all have stories like this!! Makes the movie TopGun look pretty tame.
I ended up in Hogs...one day we were playing around with the Coon Ass Eagle guys, and a young'un jumped me. Nothing stays inside a Hog break and when it's at low altitude, we can hold our energy better than most think.
Certainly better than he thought. First he tried to kill his overtake, then realizing he was going to overshoot anyway, he went vertical.
I know he had drank the Kool Aid that says a Hog can't go up...and so as I went across the top with a face full of Eagle in full burner going nowhere fast, I let go with a "Boy's, it don't get any better than this!".
It got a laugh or two in the debrief!!