Loved flying, only time I was scared in Airforce was on a test flight along the coast, I got to go into the nose and ride there (big treat) basically a little metal seat hung out in front of a/c with plexiglass all around it, any how we're whipping along at 100 ft over the straits at maybe 250 knots, SqL (captain) says look at that over there on the intercom, a/c banks to the right towards land we drop a little I strain to see whats going on there's chatter on intercom we get closer to the land we get closer to land, there's a line of hills, cliffs in front, Captain says hey there you go, look at that, co jo says where captains says there, by this time we are just over the shallows and the hills are getting really big, I'm starting to get worried flight engineer says I wonder what kind of seals those are, now at this time we passed seals on the beach what felt like minutes ago, I'm in full panic because of the hills are all I can see, no beach, no seals and I can't remember how to speak on the intercom, I'm hanging on to the little seat trying to lift the Neptune up and finally I bellow the cliffs the cliffs, everyone breaks up and the a/c lifts up over the hills with 200' to clear, I found out later the crew did this all the time to ground crew, also later I went back into a/c to see if I left finger prints in the metal of the seat. Just good clean fun at Comox.
Bill the demon.
