Did Bush ever fly a plane? [View All]

[gatorboy]

We have the pictures of him posing next to a plane and on paper it says he finished his flight training but did the man ever actually fly a fighter jet? Are there logs of combat time put in by him?

I only ask because people constantly joke about how dumb he is and it got me to wondering, "how can he be that dumb and have been a fighter pilot?" I mean there must be a higher need of brain power for that kind of job!

And pilots I've known love flying. They love it. Yet, after finishing his military duties he seemed to have simply dropped the idea of flying at all. The only link I can find that he did any flying what so ever is here:

http://www.seanet.com/~johnco/bush102.htm

With this quote:

"The guy didn't even know how to start the thing," Evans reportedly said. "That was a bad omen. Finally we get it started and roll down the runway, and he tries to take it straight up like a jet! We go into a stall, buzzcrs are going off. I say, 'Give it some gas!' We finally get it airborne, and he decides he better turn around and go back. I can tell he's nervous, but he says, 'Okay, Evvie, got it under control.' We come down and he lands half on the runway and half on the grass. And then he pats my leg and says don't worry, and he takes it up again. This time he's so scared he says, 'Hey, let's fly around Midland.' He had to get his confidence up. Somehow we got back safely. He's never flown again.


I'm actually very curious about this and wondered if there were any other links that showed if the man ever successfully operated an aircraft.