Relaying a story of something I witnessed on Saturday which was F'n awesome -- as a 42 yr old man there are very few things I thought could make me like a giddy school boy again but Saturday mid day it did.
For any of you KS guys familiar with the turnpike between Wichita/Emporia there's a stop I've stopped at a million times -- Matfield Green ---
First the weather -- clear blue bird day - very little wind at all which is unusual, and 60s - absolutely beautiful -- Everyone and their dog was burning the grass due to the great weather and the fact ground was still a little damp from prior rains. So lots of smoke plumes all over the flint hills.
Anyways we stop for a coffee stop as I was dragging -- as I walk back out to the vehicle to hand the coffee over to my wife and my son's drink and then go back around to get in - I notice off in the distance a slow moving F16 pretty darn LOW -- him and a buddy were weaving in and out of the smoke plumes having fun I'd assume --
He gets up over Matfield green rocks the plane over about 270 degrees so he's halfway inverted and fricking throws the throttle I can only assume all the way forward -- it darn near blew my ear drums out lol -- I am deaf and I had to plug my ears, the noise was earth shaking -- Car alarms are going off in the truck stop parking lot and you can see flames mid day shooting out of his exhaust plume --- It was absolutely awesome -- would love to buy that pilot a beer or if there is some Military pilot bulletin board out there on the internet somewhere give him/her KUDOS for a job well done!!!--
Definitely made my day -- I darn near yelled 'Merica I was so lost in the moment but didnt as I remembered I'm a middle aged dad lol and didnt hear anyone else yelling.
Still awesome to see -- I just got lucky I was outside at the right time.
For any of you KS guys familiar with the turnpike between Wichita/Emporia there's a stop I've stopped at a million times -- Matfield Green ---
First the weather -- clear blue bird day - very little wind at all which is unusual, and 60s - absolutely beautiful -- Everyone and their dog was burning the grass due to the great weather and the fact ground was still a little damp from prior rains. So lots of smoke plumes all over the flint hills.
Anyways we stop for a coffee stop as I was dragging -- as I walk back out to the vehicle to hand the coffee over to my wife and my son's drink and then go back around to get in - I notice off in the distance a slow moving F16 pretty darn LOW -- him and a buddy were weaving in and out of the smoke plumes having fun I'd assume --
He gets up over Matfield green rocks the plane over about 270 degrees so he's halfway inverted and fricking throws the throttle I can only assume all the way forward -- it darn near blew my ear drums out lol -- I am deaf and I had to plug my ears, the noise was earth shaking -- Car alarms are going off in the truck stop parking lot and you can see flames mid day shooting out of his exhaust plume --- It was absolutely awesome -- would love to buy that pilot a beer or if there is some Military pilot bulletin board out there on the internet somewhere give him/her KUDOS for a job well done!!!--
Definitely made my day -- I darn near yelled 'Merica I was so lost in the moment but didnt as I remembered I'm a middle aged dad lol and didnt hear anyone else yelling.
Still awesome to see -- I just got lucky I was outside at the right time.