Life's Lessons Learned from "Dogfights"

[1] Never actually say the word 'Fire!' in an airplane.

[2] Coming in close enough for a gun kill when your bird only has missiles...might be viewed as a tactical mistake during the mission post-mortem.

[3] Pulling out of a nose-dive into a dry riverbed makes you look like a piloting genius, when in fact you are just plain lucky to not be a bit of pancake on the deck.

(And just for the record, I have a very real and abiding love for the P-51 Mustang and the A-6 Intruder. Yes, the depth of my geek-i-tude knows no bounds.)