Great job with the pic. I got winged on March 13, 1987, so your date caught my eye. I enjoyed flying in all 3 A/C. I vividly remember my spin hop in T-34's and actually ended up enjoying it. I digress to a story - in T-2's, I went on a 2-plane X/C to Oceana and our instructors were doing canopy rolls (not briefed) all the way to Virginia. When we got back to P-cola, we were basically threatened not tell anyone about it. As an Ensign wanting to get my wings, I shut my mouth and carried on. About 4 months later (by this time I was in VT-86) the same 2 instructors took 2 studs out to the warning area, started doing canopy rolls, collided, and crashed one plane (killed the instructor, student ejected and lived but was med down for a year) while the other plane limped home. I learned a hard lesson as I was told by the Commodore at the formal investigation that even though I was a very junior, inexperienced NFO (student) I was to never let more senior/experienced guys to do something stupid or do something not briefed. That advise served me well in the fleet and during my career. The "Platapus" was a dream to fly. I got to do a X/C to Reno and on the way home we went VFR over the Grand Canyon back when you could fly below the rim. I remember it had an aileron boost system which allowed it to pull more "g's", which only the RIO students got to experience.