Wednesday, October 24th - Dean Ned Thomas got to fly with the Blue Angels!

Before the flight, he was interviewed in the OEDK!

Check out the great footage! 

It was like “Thunder Mountain times 1,000.” That was Ned Thomas’s description of flying with a member of the Blue Angels this week at Houston’s Ellington Field, where the Navy flight demonstration team is preparing for this weekend’s annual Wings Over Houston Air Show. Thomas, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering,was one of a select few invited to ride a Boeing F/A-18 Hornet Oct. 24 in the run-up to this week’s performances.

Thomas boasted of experiencing 6.8 times the force of gravity “and didn’t black out,” he said. The flight was “fast undefined really, really fast.”

Thomas in pre-flight mode before this week's demonstration flight on one of the Blue Angels' F/A-18 Hornets.