Geoff Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 (edited) The caption down the bottom reads, This is an actual fly by during deployment of the Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Stennis. The pilot was grounded for 30 days , but he likes the picture & thinks it was worth it Geoff PS See additional post added below , 8/1/07 Edited January 9, 2007 by Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmoshe Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 And I'll bet he also owns a jet ski. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jewel Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 "And I'll bet he also owns a jet ski." Bet he tows it with a WRX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james1990 Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Wholy donkey thats crazy imagine the noise. cheers james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 That guys been watching Top Gun too many times, hes mad. penguin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted January 9, 2007 Author Share Posted January 9, 2007 There was some additional copy that came with the photo although they are not related. Below is part of an artical written by Rick Reilly , a US magazine writer He details his experiences when given the opportunity to fly in a F-14 Tomcat. Geoff The U.S. Navy invited me to try it. I was thrilled. I was pumped. I was toast! I should've known when they told me my pilot would be Chip (Biff) King of Fighter Squadron 213 at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach. Whatever you're thinking a Top Gun named Chip (Biff) King looks like, triple it. He's about six-foot, tan, ice-blue eyes, wavy surfer hair, finger-crippling handshake -- the kind of man who wrestles dyspeptic alligators in his leisure time. If you see this man, run the other way. Fast. Biff King was born to fly. His father, Jack King, was for years the voice of NASA missions. ("T-minus 15 seconds and counting ..." Remember?) Chip would charge neighborhood kids a quarter each to hear his dad. Jack would wake up from naps surrounded by nine-year-olds waiting for him to say, "We have a liftoff" Biff was to fly me in an F-14D Tomcat, a ridiculously powerful $60 million weapon. I was worried about getting airsick, so the night before the flight I asked Biff if there was something I should eat the next morning. "Bananas," he said. "For the potassium?" I asked. "No," Biff said, "because they taste about the same coming up as they do going down." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomahawk1999 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 "Chip Biff King", only in America what a famous family. Mother =Doughnut king Father = Burger king. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 "Chip Biff King", only in America what a famous family. Mother =Doughnut king Father = Burger king. Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyropilot Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Hi I think his brother is the one flying the Apache in my avatar !!! The rotors are only a few feet off the water !!! Cheers Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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