New Years celebrations have come and gone and the time has come for the Harrison-Helins to head back home but before we do, I thought I'd share one more thing with you.
Yesterday we got the opportunity to go visit the airforce base up here to have a look at the jet fighters and also to try their state of the art flight simulator; which in my geeky opinion is probably one of the coolest things since Michael J Fox's garbage-fuelled DeLorean!
Imagine that an imax cinema and a jet fighter simulator would make a baby and you get to be the cinematographer-top gun-pilot. That's pretty much what it was like sitting in that cockpit; surrounded by a detailed aerial photo of Sweden that you are flying over whilst controlling 'one of the world's most advanced weapons systems'. Can you tell I am excited about these things? ;) Both Shaena and I got to take it for a spin and we both managed to take off, fly and land safely again; thank G*d!
Anyway; after our flying sessions we each got a diploma and got to go out to the actual airplanes in one of the hangars with our guide Micke. I pretty much grew up on the base and have been running around the hangars countless times but I still get excited about these machines and the whole vibe of this environment.
Ethan on the other hand instantly spotted the trucks that pull the planes out of the hangar and was mostly interested in sitting in the driver's seat, pushing buttons and honking the horn! Micke let Ethan loose on one of the trucks and at one point everything from the headlights to the wipers to the blinkers and the rotating light on the roof were going at the same time!
Tomorrow morning we have a 6.35am flight to catch from the same runway we took off from in the simulator, so it'll be a 4am start to the day for all of us. Wish us luck!
* = (trying to keep our J*sus-rating on the Next-button under control!) ;)
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