Trying2beVegan

After a few clicks of the random article I found one I could think to write about.

Vought O4U Corsair 

The Vought O4U Corsair was an observation plane built for the US Navy. Carl had flown her many a time. this time in his dreams. The same dream he always had he would feel the wind rushing past his face his eyes protected by his flying goggles and his head kept warm by his sheepskin hat his love Mary had made him. She was good at that sort of thing. She was good at a lot of things he used to think. His dreams were always eerily realistic. Down to the taste of the wind on his tongue and the feeling of the beads of sweat rolling down his forehead.

He was sent on his reconnaissance mission over enemy lines flying between the low cloud cover and flying from the direction of the sun to avoid being spotted from below. However in his dream the sun always seemed to set too fast. Before it should meaning he was a sitting duck from the ground below. As he peered over the side of his plane to look at the ground below instead of enemy soldiers hell bent on destroying him and willing his plane to tumble from the sky he saw the bullies he went to school with. Their chants could somehow reach him high the sky, those of ‘You suck’ and ‘You will never be a pilot’ his belief in his ability seemed linked to the propulsion of the plane. His self doubt at this point in is dream would always cause the engine to slowly start to stall and grow weaker, until the plane stalled completely and started into its death spiral towards the ground below. Those that were taunting before now made a circle around where the plane would land still jeering him which lead to more self doubt that lead to the plane only spiraling faster to the earth.

He tried to eject. He was yanking at the release but it would not budge. He was stuck fast, every time in his dream this would be close to the end. He would spend his last few seconds of the dream pulling with all his might, every fibre in his body straining to release himself and let his parachute gently deliver him to the floor.

But this time was different. There was a click, there was Never a click. The release lever started to ease. The tension of his body relaxed.. He was…