Originally Posted by
BVRAAM
The Eagle driver has been named as Lt. Col. Seth "Jethro" Nehring, assigned to the 194th FS. So sad - R.I.P. Sir.
I don't know if the Flanker driver has been named.
I met Seth a few times when I lived in California. I flew with a friend into the Fresno Chandler Airshow and Seth and another 194th FS pilot came to look around our airplane. A few weeks later they hosted me out at the squadron and let me fly the sim and have a tour. He told me he lived to fly and was a real “sky whore”. A good guy.
For Seth and Col. Petrenko Ivan Nikolaevich
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
- John Gillespie Magee Jr.