They fly 'em...We drive 'em

Mike's squadron did a wife taxi day a few weeks back. I got to put on most of the flight gear they have to wear (not the g-suit) and walk out to the plane, climb in, and then taxi to the runway. Unfortunately Mike was not in the front seat but I had an instructor. He was way cool though, call sign Bum, he let me taxi the plan all the way to the runway. Once at the runway he took over and we did what was called a high-power taxi, where he ran the engine let the plane get to about 90 knots on the ground before cutting power off and coasting to the end of the runway from there. It was neat! Kinda crazy to be sitting in such an expensive piece of equipment touching buttons and running up the throttle and using the petals to steer! But what an experience. I'm so glad I was able to do it!