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Blue Angels landing locally tomorrow?

My mom saw on the local news that the Blue Angels are landing at mine truly, KMTN, tomorrow, December 1st, at 12:00 noon. According to the report, they’ll be practicing out of there for a few days.

She swears that this was real and not a dream, but I’m skeptical because I can’t find anything scheduled by the angels, or even the news report on the news channel’s website. And she’s getting up in age.

So, am I skeptical? Yes. Am I still leaving school early to make sure I see them if this is true? You betcha.

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Flew my first solo today, details to come tomorrow.

I was pretty much focused the entire time on not screwing up, but for one moment I just looked out the window towards the Baltimore skyline and muttered to myself:

“I can’t believe I’m doing this. They let me fly a plane completely by myself. This feels wrong on so many levels.”

After shutting down and in response to being asked “How does it feel to have flown an airplane on your own?” All I could respond with was:

“Uh, just about the same.”

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I did my first spin today!

My cousin is the coolest.

And in case it wasn’t assumed in the first place, this is not me. I just found this video on youtube and used it to illustrate what I did because there’s an outside and inside view.

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