[sionnsar]

There are usually sorties every day that is good flying weather, and during the winter, of course, the Thunderbirds practice. Sometimes, I'm lucky enough to see them. It's all awesome!

I am SO jealous!

Back when I worked at NASA, I took part of one Friday afternoon off to go watch the Blue Angels practice at Moffett Field (Mountain View CA) for the weekend's airshow. Sat right alongside the runway, couldn't have had a better seat.

Very thrilling, but I guess I didn't have enough of the necessary Right Stuff to become a fighter pilot (or any other kind). Then again, I became an engineer -- not much public glory, but I bet if you threw anything as simple as a Karnaugh Map at those folks they'd stall out in a flash. *\;-)

[Monkey Face]

When we lived in Fremont, we would go to Alameda or Moffat Field to the commissary. One Saturday, the doors to the hangar at Moffat were open and they had hot air balloons in there.

We took the kids in, and my son was so awestruck he had tears in his eyes. He was just a little over 10, and to see the hangar as a closed building is one thing. But to go inside and see hot air balloons actually rising and falling INSIDE A BUILDING was more than he could comprehend.

I can still see it!