re: Best flyover or military aircraft experience

Best flyover.... a called Tomcat at M1+ at 20 miles when I was on the roof. I was on the Coral Sea, CV-43 in 1989. America, CV-66 was just over the horizon. We'd been playing games off of Lebanon for about 6 weeks... one of ours buzzed them, one of theirs buzzed us.

And, once you've seen an air show at sea... it's no holds barred. No sound barrier wall, live ordnance. And I loved working on the Hornet, but I'm glad I shared the roof with the A6, A7, EA6-B, E2, S3, SH3, F14, and F/A18. Not like the young folks now who know nothing but the Hornet and now the F35.

Hell, once during a CQ det, we even had a couple of F4 Phantoms come aboard. I was a A7 plane captain in VA-174 and it was my first time working on the roof. You wanna talk about rattle your bones! Get next to the CAT with one of those bastards!