Cool.
“Finally, the time was near to time zero, and we were right on the prescribed orbit and location. I was flying the plane, and as I said, I had put the patch over my left eye and was to be looking down, with my head down, into the cockpit. As the time was counted down to zero, I can remember that I was holding my breath as I heard 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1! Then, everything went white, I mean it was so bright you could not see the floor of the plane. Then a very odd thing happened, I could actually see through the floor of the cockpit and see the ground below us! Yes, I could see the ground THROUGH the floor of the plane. I also could see a bright light even in the eye over which I had the patch. I find it hard to describe the brightness of the bomb blast. It was not like anything I had ever seen. It was, very much like how I had envisioned that the brightness one would experience if in the presence of God.”
— The Spirit of Attack: Fighter Pilot Stories by Bruce Gordon
That was one of the men that contributed to the book.
My favorite anecdote from Gordon was him being way up north in an interceptor squadron. He described being disoriented, the horrible conditions they had to fly in. He realized one night as he was in a steep dive that he was in the wrong place and pulled up for all he was worth going God knows how fast and he said he looked UP out of his cockpit to see a man sitting on the second floor of his home reading the paper.
.png "Shocked :shocked:")
That must be light of the gravitation wave variety instead of the EM waves variety.
