Well, this is the job to have - Rick Svetkoff, owner/founder of the Starfighters, was at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday in one of the teams F-104s to help NASA decide whether it's feasible to allow commercial spacecraft to launch from Cape Canaveral. The article and pictures from the St. Petersburg Times can be viewed here:
Pilot's jet fighter business enjoys a boom
Good job, Rick!
Anthony
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What a joy that must have been for Rick and Shark! Flying circles in Mach at 40G's...It's awesome to see they took a Starfighter instead of the more present Eagle or Viper - the old girl's got a lot of life left 
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Flying circles in Mach at 40G's...
I bet that's a pretty tight circle at 40 G!!
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I bet that's a pretty tight circle at 40 G!!
Hahaha!! I meant 40,000 feet - i.e FL400, LMAO!!! My bad Hacker
Being a commercial pilot, "G"'s are something I don't get a lot of...I would HATE to fly in a 40G circle...OUCH!!!
It'd certainly spill your coffee - and make that newspaper hard to read 
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