Close Your Eyes And Let The Force Be With You

I could only watch the aerobatic displays with envy.  But Carlo and I did actually fly an aerial dogfight, against the Navy, Malaysia and SEAir!  Well, sort of.
  
  
  
  
The balloon bursting boondoggle – airplanes prowling above the crowd and hunting down helium-fattened prey.
Most pilots quail at colliding with an object in an airplane! 
But there we were, chasing drifting [...]

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Real Men Do It Upside Down!

 So there we were, behind schedule. 
The gusting winds had grounded the hot air balloons, skydivers and paragliders.  
The crazed windsock threatened to rip itself off its pole and blow away altogether.
The morose crowd packed the ramp.  
Buddy Lopa, our untiring “Voice of the Fiesta” Program Director, kept apologizing for the wind.
We were stressed!  The airshow was dying.
     
That’s when [...]

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