Holy that's funny!!!
I especially like this part... ...The enthusiasm of Erin Rappaport, a Springfield, IL eighth-grader who played flight simulators on her PlayStation and impressed Naval flight teams when she sat in the F/A-18 Hornet's cockpit for the first time and already knew, or could guess,† the functions of many of the jet's 188 different controls. "That sounds just like Erin," said Rappaport's math teacher, Janice Billingsly. "We'll miss her very much." Erin wasn't the only special person who flew here today; she wasn't the only female, or the only person to crash into Pino's Pizza on Grove Avenue, or even the youngest. But, witnesses said, she displayed incredible grit and a can-do attitude to her classmates who were inside eating pizza when she tried to fly by and wave...
Hits a little close to home don't it?
Now if y'all don't mind I'm gonna try to rack up some practice...I know it's not a Hornet but it'll do (that and I think my Blue Angels Crusader is in the reserve hangar--still haven't successfully landed that one yet!):costumes:
That is funny! I remember reading a satire piece like that in 1991 about Carrier Aviation and the "fact" that the laws of physics were prohibitive regarding Carrier landings and that the "real truth" behind it was that every Carrier had a huge electro-magnet beneath the arresting wires that would pull the planes on deck as they flew over it. LOL. The funny part was, quite a few people bought it as a real story! LMAO!!! :costumes:
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