**Thanks for the funnies.

I watched an SR-71 take off from Naha, Okinawa in the mid sixties.   It got about fifty foot off the runway, turned almost straight up and disappeared out of sight with a mighty roar.  That was just about most awesome thing I have ever seen.  They would not let anyone leave the base, or enter it as long as the SR-71 was there.  Apparently it had an emergency and had to land long enough to get it fixed. 

There is a story floating around about an air traffic controller who got a call from what he believed to be a military pilot requesting permission to go to FL90 (90,000ft).   The flight controller being a wise ass says to him " If you can get up there, you can have it." and the pilot says back   "DESCENDING to FL90 roger."**

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms!!