I could see the sun getting much lower, along with my fuel, and the haze down low was thickening as I neared the eastern edge of the airspace. Again, I popped just over the cloud I was playing with, rolled inverted at knots, and pulled straight down, finding a curving, weaving path in the clear air for my modified Split-S to position myself down low so I could aim directly at the orange wall in front of me.
Full burners again and a breathtaking pull up with that beautiful vapor stringing off my wingtips in my mirrors. This time taking my jet vertical, I flew just up the face of the cloud, half-in and half-out, as my feet skated up the edge of the wall. With my pitot tube and burner cans just just barely out in the clear air, I consumed the full whiteness of the cloud face streaking past me on both sides, shooting myself surprisingly through a small fluffy cotton ball protruding out the side, glancing with wonder up at the other column directly above my head in the climb.
A cloverleaf-ish rolling pull this time, to sky up in an inverted sort of arc, upside down again across the magnificent rounded orange top, across to the dark shadow behind, continuing down again in that glorious, higher-G, descending tight spiral around and around to the bottom. I reluctantly checked the weather and called approach to request clearance back home.
And I felt like Superman. Approach control immediately cleared me home, and with my power way back, I eyed my fuel gauge, which was concerning me slightly. I might have used just a liittle too much afterburner on that last cloud. Feeling my way through the murky Columbus sky past the banana-shaped pond and Highway 45, the faint, hazy outline of Columbus Air Patch in the shadows finally appeared under my nose. This was the best flight of my life, up to that point, and is still in my top I remember it every year in early June, and I re-fly this mission in my mind every single time I see that late-afternoon, yellow-orange, towering cumulus in the high distant summer sky.
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