Saturday, March 29, 2008

Heads up!

I wanted to post this picture of a military C5A-Galaxy cargo jet that was doing aerobatics over Highway 40 in Texas last week. I took this picture as I was driving West towards the jet, flying East towards me. Unfortunately, my camera wasn't fast enough to get ready to take another picture, otherwise I'd have taken another one, closer to it.

My first thought when I saw the scene below was wether or not I should get out of it's way. It was swinging wildly from left to right and I wondered where I could ditch the truck to avoid the head-on collision that I was about to lose as it landed.

I eventually caught it in my rearview, steadily climbing away from the ground. Thinking back, I bet it was probably some punk kid having fun at the military's expense. Yeah, that's got to be it.

9 COMMENTS:

Anonymous said...

Great Pic.

Good post.

Uncle Sam said...

Upon order of the US Government, you may not post photos of this aircraft or speculate about its actions. You must remove all evidence of this aircraft from this site immediatly. We may or may not have been taken surveillance and know who you are truck #10041.

Jason said...

If you were taking surveillance, would you please send me a picture of my truck from above? Please send it to my home address. I live at 34... wait... you know my address.

Uncle Sam said...

THIS IS NOT A JOKE. We would appreciate you taking this seriously. THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING.

Hwy 40 trucker said...

ya better watch out. the same thang happened to me last month those govenment guys came and gave me a talkin to an i aint been the same since. it really hurt.

Jason said...

Wow, with all those "accidental" misspellings and grammatical errors, I totally believe you're a trucker, and not my educated friend Derek. I'll remove the post right away!

Hwy 40 trucker said...

who is Derek?

Jason said...

Oh, I mean Derfek.

derek said...

Stop talking about me.