[PhilDragoo]

[WaterDragon]

He's probably been telling this story at cocktail parties for so many years that he now believes it's true.

So typical that the Democrats have come up with another compulsive liar as a candidate.

[GretchenM]

I'm thinking this is jean francois kerry's new answer to Bush on the USS Lincoln flight deck.

[John Jorsett]

Unless Kerry has experience in jet aircraft, I doubt the part about takeoff (or the 5-foot-altitude control handoff). I've got a pilot's license in small aircraft, and it's all with a wheel-type control yoke. Hand me a stick and I'd crash whatever I was in if it were 5 feet off the ground. Completely different type of controls.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Jeez, this guy is just like Gore. He's a rabid compulsive liar who just can't help himself. Kerry's stories are just as funny as Gore's father-of-the-internet and my-mom-used-to-sing-me-to-sleep-with-the-union-jingle stories.

[10Ring]

This site states that Top Gun Kerry flew a Fuga. Couldn't find much info on that aircraft.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/423170.html

When the senator's delegation reached the south, he visited Uvda air force base where he asked permission from the local commanders for an overflight of the country. Although he had limited experience as a pilot, he was given a Fuga to fly and within a few minutes, when he wanted to look out over Aqaba from above, the pilot who was accompanying him said, "Senator, you better turn quickly because otherwise you'll be in Egyptian territory."

[Eaker]

Ping to read at home.