Jake Takes Flight!!!

On Sunday the 10th of July in the year of 2005, Jake took the controls of a Varga VG-21 aircraft and proceeded to dog fight with his arch nemesis that he had met only 1 hour earlier.  IT WAS AWESOME!!  I flew with an outfit named TOP DOG air combat.  My pilot (my backup when I wasn't in control) had the call sign "Hacksaw".  We pulled about 3G's in one of the maneuvers.  Who won?? I lost by a technicality.  I went below the 2000' Hard Deck 2 out of the 3 dog fights (which counts as a DQ) and the third dogfight was a glorious kill shot made by yours truly.  I would highly recommend to anyone interested.

Julie and I just before take-off in the VG-21	Hacksaw and myself checking the rotery gerter.....	Preflight briefing / Pep talk	Gettin' strapped in.	Hacksaw gettin' in.
Our first face-off.	Inside the briefing hanger.	Just after take-off.	A little bit longer after take-off....	Even longer after take-off.
The briefing area.	Class notes.	Teams, my call sign was "Shaky"