Status Updates From Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who...

“The general thought for a moment. Maybe there was something the charts did not reveal [about the F111], something he could salvage. ‘Major, based on your extensive research, do you have any recommendations regarding this aircraft?’

Boyd did not miss a bear. ‘General, I’d pull the wings off, install benches in the bomb bay, paint the goddamn thing yellow, and turn it into a high-speed taxi.”😮

“But ask him about his life, and his eyes flash and his back straightens and his hands demonstrate aerial maneuvers and every conversation begins with ‘There I was at…’ and he is young again. He remembers the days when he sun danced through the heavens, when he could press a button and summon the lightning and invoke the thunder, the days when he was a prince of the earth and a lord of the heavens.”