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Given an opportunity would you like to fly (as a passenger) with the Blue Angels?

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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Would you like to fly.....with the Blue Angels?

Poll: Given an opportunity would you like to fly (as a passenger) with the Blue Angels?

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OU's Stoops takes 'amazing' ride on Navy jet


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Bob Stoops signals that he's ready to start his Blue Angels ride with Navy Lt. Kevin Davis.
AP



FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops lost consciousness for a few moments but didn't lose his lunch Wednesday during a ride with the Navy's Blue Angels flight team.
Stoops took off with pilot Kevin Davis of Connecticut for an hourlong ride that started with a vertical climb to 7,000 feet.
"We started doing some maneuvers flying upside down, getting right to the edge of mach speed and doing some loops," Stoops said in a statement issued by Oklahoma. "Then we did the cork screw vertical climb and nose-dived into some turns. It was just amazing."
He said he took G-forces up to 7.8 during a minimal radius turn.
"He lost me there. You just black out for a second or two," Stoops said. "(The pilot) was talking me through it the entire time. Of course, it doesn't faze them a bit. At one point, we were flying upside down at about 1,000 feet just hanging by our straps."
Stoops said his stomach was up to the task.
"I didn't have any problems, but I didn't think I would. I haven't had any trouble with my stomach over the years," Stoops said. "I ate a club sandwich a couple hours before we went up."
Former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson also flew with the Blue Angels, the featured attraction at this weekend's Texas Thunder 2006 Air Show.
"It was awesome. What an experience," Stoops said. "The force and power in the jet and the precision and skill of the pilot are overwhelming."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/ncaa/05/10/bc.fbc.stoops.blueangel.ap/index.html
 
I would!

Have to make up for the time I won a ride in a trick plane at age 8 and didn't go. By "didn't go," I mean I ripped up the tickets in front of 10,000 people, tossed them into the air, and spent the rest of the afternoon being hidden in the bathroom by my mother until everyone else left. I wasn't normally such a rotten kid, but I was scared silly that they would turn the plane upside down and I would fall out. Too bad... now I'd love to have gone. The Blue Angels would probably be a notch above, though. :biggrin:
 
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In all seriousness, what do you have to do to get up in a fighter jet (not neccessarily blue angels)? It seems like famous people get to do it all the time. Can non-famous people go up in one? That would be amazing. Way better than any roller coaster
 
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Couldn't say I'd pass it up. Just like a chance to to ride in the Shuttle, risks be damned, you can't pass it up.

I've ridden with some crazy helicopter pilots before. The things you can do with a Cobra Gunship or a CH53E can make you sick as a dog. I can't imagine pulling negative 4 G's in an F16.

I would pass up the ride on Kelly Clarkson either.
 
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