Apr 18
Picture from August 2003 Backpacker Magazine
Apr 17
This picture was taken recently at the Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. In the partial picture above (circled in yellow) is my friend Brandon Harris! Click on the picture above to go to the Auburn homepage and select picture #9 in the navigation!
War Eagle!
Apr 15
If anyone is interested in going to San Diego for about 36 hours May 3/4, let me know. I saw this commercial on the tube last night and it got me excited! I watched the highlights from the Abu Dhabi event on April 11 and it looked awesome!
Think about it! Fly out from Atlanta Saturday morning, arrive around noon (time gates open), enjoy the afternoon / evening qualifying session, stay one night in the hotel, wake up, watch the official race, head to airport, take red-eye back to atlanta in time for work the next day 
Any takers!!!!????? Click link below for more info!
Apr 10
(Fast forward to 1:55 for flyover)
A Vermont Air National Guard pilot who took part in a flyover of Fenway Park during opening day ceremonies has been grounded for making an improper maneuver near the park, a Guard spokesman said Thursday.
The F-16 pilot flew under and over the other three F-16s in the formation at about 1,200 feet over Boston on Tuesday afternoon because he was going too fast and was late joining the formation, Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Lloyd Goodrow said.
“It is a legitimate maneuver. It is normally done at 5,000 feet or above,” Goodrow said. “The crowd loved it, but it was not a planned maneuver.”
Goodrow would not release the name of the pilot.
People at Fenway Park or watching the Boston Red Sox’s opening day ceremonies on television saw three planes flying wing tip to wing tip when the fourth plane approached from behind and then appeared to curve around the other aircraft.
Goodrow said it was not an acrobatic stunt.
“At no time was the public in danger,” Goodrow said. “Our pilot is a very skilled pilot. He maintained full control of the airplane.”
Red Sox spokesman John Blake said Thursday the team hadn’t heard any complaints about the maneuver.
“I think we were made aware of it today by the Green Mountain Boys,” Blake said Thursday. “Nobody here has had a lot of time to find out what happened.”
Goodrow said Guard officials saw the maneuver on television.
“We all said, ‘Wow, that’s not right.’ All the aviators knew what was going on,” Goodrow said. “They said, ‘That was a bit unusual.’”
The pilot was suspended after he landed back at the Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.
“The pilot has been grounded, not as a punishment but so we can provide remedial training in tactics and procedures so this situation does not happen again,” Goodrow said. “He might have made other choices to rejoin the formation.”
There was no word on how long the pilot would remain grounded.
Source: AJC.com
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