A couple of other experiences that will give you some “pucker factor”…
Side-seating in a T-41 Mescalero when Air Traffic Control screws up and sends a Boeing 767 into your flight path at your altitude (I had the yoke in my crotch as the Major I was sitting next to ripped it back… I was close enough to see the passengers in the windows of the 767…
Nav Training in a Boeing T-43A and watching the Colorado landscape go by on ground radar, and hearing from the T-43 in front of us that there was a T-41 180 degrees our heading and 300 hundred feet below us… then seeing a green swath fill half of the ground radar as that T-41 passed beneath us close enough to block almost all of the radar…
Commercial Flight Denver to Pittsburgh on US Air, watching rivets come out of the wing in flight… (you don;t actually see the rivet come out, you just see the skin vibrating with the rivet loose, and then there is no rivet…)
