i'd absolutely luurrrve to be in that squaddie's place.
lucky git. i'm jealous already.
the nearest experience i had to seeing a fighter plane at [a somewhat] close range was back in - let me recall - 1989 at this airbase over ere on the wee islet. i wasn't supposed to be at the canteen either. seeing a skyhawk taking off and then another landin on the runway was an experience that word's don't justify.
whatsoever.
and said experience included holdin my breath upon seeing that other skyhawk's front wheel lowered, and then touched down onto the runway. phew, smooth landin that. indeed, i was fuckin envious of em pilot's - they ain't flying just any *fighter* plane mind, it's the same type of aircraft that saw action in vietnam.
no matter, i thought i'd died and went to heaven.
i got into the base as a mate fibbed to the guard i was some computer [back then the word IT hadn't come into existence as yet] person [which i was kinda] who wanted to take a peek at their systems. actually i was wanting to borrow the newly-released long-anticipated much-hyped-about but totally-flawed unnecessarily-complex and mighty-useless dbase IV diskette's off him. all six [or was it eight?] of em.
[ah, those good old day's when illegal copyin was erm, rampant over ere. and i miss those "massive" 5.25 inch diskettes lots.]
said mate had offered to pass em to me at my workplace. but i just had to see em plane's.
the thing's one does to get cheap thrill's, eh.
as enscribed by the letter b @ October 12, 2006 06:33 PM | someone's pingedindeed, krip :) i was told that the nearest i could get that sort of thrill is to stand at some point on changi beach so i could look up at a [commercial] plane's underbelly close up. not quite but still close.
as blahed by the letter b @ October 15, 2006 06:46 AMJust a couple of lads havin' a bit of a larf. Nowt wrong with that.
as blahed by krip @ October 14, 2006 06:27 PM