Can’t get the theme music from Top Gun out of your head? Dreamed about dogfighting above the desert in a real Warbird, performing a hammerhead stall in the heavens over Vegas? Check out Sky Combat Ace (SCA).
Leave the timid behind back on the ground, grinding away on the slot machines, loading up at the cut-rate buffets that proliferate the place. Break out big time. Guided by expert pilots you can take the controls and live out your fighter pilot fantasies by signing up to a Top Gun foray.
Looking for world-class aerobatic flight? SCA serves up a legitimate adrenaline rush, melding classic aerobatic maneuvers with air-to-air dogfights.
Too extreme? We understand. Book a sightseeing flight (an adventure, really) in an open-cockpit biplane. See Hoover Dam, Red Rock Mountains and the bright lights of Vegas.
The Warbird is a real, live T-6 Texan, the kind of craft used to train pilots during World War II. The airplane is sleek, quintessentially quick, and very maneuverable. When you board that Boeing 737 and head back home from McCarran International Airport the betting is you’ll never look at flying quite the same way again.
Take a friend up for that sightseeing flight we talked about in a Waco Classic YMF-5C. The open-cockpit biplane can accommodate two folks up front. Cozy, but romantic. The pilot sits in back. This is flying the way it was meant to be: elemental and unadorned.
Not sure about all this? If you’d like to dip your toe in the water before taking the plunge ask for a ride in the ground-bound, full-motion flight simulator.
Sky Combat Ace offers a range of rates, depending on which experience you decided to book.
Story by Jerry Chandler
