All of a sudden you’re the pilot of your model, but wait its not a model anymore and before you have time to think it through you hear the tower responding saying

“Xray two zero niner cleared direct to runway two-seven right, altimeter two niner-niner point two, wind out of the east. Be advised you have a ME two six two five miles out on final”.

You respond “Roger tower I have a visual on the two six two , requesting navy break ".

The tower says “Xray two zero niner, cleared for navy break on two-seven right. Maintain visual, contact ground on one twenty seven point five after touchdown."

After performing an eye-watering navy break and landing you switch to Macho Grande ground control frequency and are advised “Navy jet x-ray two zero niner your cleared to taxi, proceed to the transit ramp by the tower. Be advised you have four fox one hundreds preparing to depart. Hold short upon approaching the transit ramp, welcome to NAS Macho Grande, have a nice day ”.

You reply “roger” and as you hold short by the tower you see the four active F-100's firing up to leave after staying over for the night and on their way to the gunnery meet William Tell. At the next moment you spot an F- 7 Cutlass in Blue Angel markings coming back from a photo mission flying wing on a ME-262. Having brought your aircraft to Macho Grande for one of the monthly air shows you hear the tower giving landing clearance to an F-86D Sabre jet stating its from the U.S. Air Force flight demonstration team “The Sabre Knights” arriving overhead.

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