It took more than 40 years, but I finally lived my “Top Gun” dream, in the back seat of a South Korean Air Force F-4 Phantom.
It took more than 40 years, but I finally lived my “Top Gun” dream. For an hour and 40 minutes, in the back seat of a South Korean Air Force F-4 Phantom, I was “Goose” from the classic 1980s movie – and it was so worth the wait. As a kid, I loved newspapers and writing, so journalism was a natural choice for a career.
During each leg, there would be four F-4s flying in formation – three carrying journalists in the back seat – with an F-15, which would carry a photographer to record the events. As our military bus pulled into Daegu Air Base on a sunny Thursday afternoon, the morning flight – from Suwon to Daegu – screamed over the runway. I got a tingle and a smile. This was real. And I was ready. I greeted a US journalist on the morning flight as she climbed down from the F-4 I’d fly in the afternoon.
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