Most awesome moment of your life?

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What was the most mind-blowing, amazing, awesome experience you ever had?

Mine was when I was 13 back in 1996. I flew from Vancouver to Calgary in the cockpit jumpseat of a Boeing 767-300ER (a very large airliner). Looking out a giant cockpit windscreen is so much cooler than looking out a little oval window. It was amazing. I also learned from that experience that pilots criticize each other's flying and taxiing the same way drivers of cars criticize each other. "Look at that landing... so sloppy". "Oh my god where does that guy think he's going? He's going way too fast" "That jack-ass cut me off! I have clearance, he doesn't!"

It was great. I got to experience that because it was pre-9/11 and my mother was and still is a flight attendant with a certain airline.
 
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I also learned from that experience that pilots criticize each other's flying and taxiing the same way drivers of cars criticize each other. "Look at that landing... so sloppy". "Oh my god where does that guy think he's going? He's going way too fast" "That jack-ass cut me off! I have clearance, he doesn't!"
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Caught some of the radio chatter from the controlled airspace around Falcon Heavy launch - obviously a lot of people flying in and out and load of private planes up to watch it - amongst other things some poor guy got really laid into because he slightly screwed up relaying his position.

I've not really had one stand out mind-blowing experience - had a few great ones.
 
The most important days of my life were, the day I was born and then the day I found out why.

*Borrowed from the late great Mark Twain, but it's true for me too.*
 
Had a few good ones, but top of the list is probably visiting Toro Toro national park in Bolivia . Pretty inaccessible (8 hour 4x4 ride for the nearest town, electricity was only installed a few months before our visit) so at the time very few foreigners visited, but the geology meant there are thousands of fossils around the place. Wandering around we found a load of footprints in the rock, including a row of probable diplodocus footprints being used by the locals to wash clothes in!
 
Did not fully realise at the time, but I saw Nirvana at Reading Festival in 1992, when I was 16. I mean it was awesome as I was a massive fan, but in later years being able to watch it all back (it's on YT if anyone wants to watch it), one can fully appreciate how awesome it actually was.

Jumping out of a plane at fifteen thousand feet in New Zealand was pretty awesome as well. Adrelanin rush was like nothing before or after.
 
The feeling of huge satisfaction when I finally took my late father's advice and punched a bully full on in the throat at school. I was that terrified of him it took weeks to pluck up the courage, and I probably could have done him some serious damage. I was darned sure that if I did hit him it would have to be hard enough to stop him dead though, I lived in fear of every time I met him, as did others. But hell, I felt good, and the reputation I then had as a nutter and not one to be messed with served me well at that school :)
 
When I was around ten years old, my cousin was in the Royal Navy on HMS Invincible and they held a famillies day.

Not only did we get to go on the great ship and have pretty much free roam, it left Portsmouth harbour and did a lap of the Isle of Wight. We met the captain on the bridge and had our photos taken. About half way round there was a flight demonstration where two Lynxx helicopters took off and two Harrier jump jets took off down the ski ramps and did a few fly bys. We watched it all from above the bridge. It was a truly awesome experience that I will never forget.
 
When, after a long extended labour, and difficult delivery, a little blue baby with a few assist puffs of air into her lungs cried out for the first time making me a father.
The utter silence in the room prior to the noises she made, and the complete and utter relief on everyone in the room after was something to behold.
 
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Smashing pastie for the first time.
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Let me amend this to "without a condom"

Being serious: Harley Davidson 100th anniversary ride. LA to Milwaukee with our chapter (Inc my dad and brother) and 800,000 other bikers. Best week of my life.
 
Surviving a life and death operation at aged 12.

I was born with a curved spine that was crushing my lungs and they only give me 5 years at the most to live if I didn't have the operation.

Waking up after the operation and realising I survived, even though I had to spend 13 months in hospital.
 
Bit of a sob story to start with...

I was a junior Speedway Rider but contrary to everyone else around me my Daddy Didn't help in any way, shape fashion or form !
I bought my first bike on HP at 16 which my Mum signed guarantor then I discovered I couldn't get the bike around to tracks until I was 17 and bought my own car !

After overcoming all that I couldn't understand why I kicked other juniors arses only to be constantly overlooked for second half rides until one evening I walked passed a promoter talking to one of the other juniors Daddy and it finally dawned on me that "It aint what you know, it's WHO you know".

So what was the awesome ?

Press day 1982 at Peterborough Speedway.

In front of all the press I whooped the arse off the leagues best Professional Riders (Except Andy Hines, Damn he could gate faaaaast)
I came back into the pits grinning like a Cheshire Cat and all the Pro riders were back-slapping me !


Then my Dad (whom I had made up with and he was living in my flat) died (June 20th 1982 - Fathers Day - he was 51) and I threw it all away and buggered off back to Australia !
 
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