July 12th, 2009 -
A couple of years ago my buddy's wife called me up and said that she wanted
to do something really special for her husband's 50th birthday. She told me
about Air Combat USA and said that she
wanted to send Andy and if there was anyone she thought should go along with
him it was me. I was all for it so I arranged for us to go in the fall of
2007. We got rained out that year and in 2008 Cheryl was having a baby
so Andy suggested we wait. Finally on July 12th 2009 we went to Pontiac,
Michigan and we could not have wished for better weather. We arrived
at the airport just after 0800 and were met by our ex-fighter
pilots/instructors Bogey and Worm. We got into our jumpsuits and proceeded
with the briefing. About an hour later we took to the skies for some
formation flying (prohibited for all commercial and private aircraft in
North America) some aerobatics and some dog-fighting competition.