Flying the Recovery Tanker mission overhead the ship on dark, moonless nights with no horizon, you fly in a big oval over the ship at 20-30 deg AOB. After about five minutes, you swear you are "wings level" but you are far from it. You have to force your brain to believe the instruments or you are dead. Oh yeah, so there you are with BAD vertigo and you get the signal to come down so you "push" out of the Marshall stack and let me tell you boys, puckers you right up.. THe breathing you hear ain't because he's got asthma ! This is a 500 series (A-6 Intruder, but you can also hear a 700 series S-3 Viking (the jet I flew0 on the radio

A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”