I had the extreme good fortune to meet LCDR Scott "Skweez" Toppel, fighter pilot, after his return from the war in Afganistan. We sure have 'the right stuff' when it comes to air superiority and we can thank guys like Scott for that.
I was sitting there in a new Airbus thinking it was a pretty slick piece of machinery shooting the breeze with Scott and it turns out he flies an F-18. Suddenly the plane looks like a bus!
We see these top gun guys on tv and movies and some of us may have family or friends over there but for me the chance to meet and shoot the breeze with someone who gets catapaulted from a ship into mach speeds in a hornet was a real treat.
We salute you LCDR Toppel, America thanks you!
Here are some images from Skweez... enjoy!
I was sitting there in a new Airbus thinking it was a pretty slick piece of machinery shooting the breeze with Scott and it turns out he flies an F-18. Suddenly the plane looks like a bus!
We see these top gun guys on tv and movies and some of us may have family or friends over there but for me the chance to meet and shoot the breeze with someone who gets catapaulted from a ship into mach speeds in a hornet was a real treat.
We salute you LCDR Toppel, America thanks you!
Here are some images from Skweez... enjoy!