Linus Torvalds flew a fighter and I felt that this weightlessness

Foundation Linux Foundation has published an interesting video: Linus Torvalds describes his impressions of the flight in a jet fighter Lockheed T-33, and the feeling of weightlessness. After leaving the cockpit, the creator of Linux in his usual brutal manner admits that flight & quot; ... it's cool, but not to puke & quot ;. It happened at the international air show in Oregon (Oregon International Air Show) over the weekend. Earlier in his Google+ Torvalds also joked : «few people know, but between the kernel I Pullen relaxed flight on a fighter. " On several photos that he posted, Torvalds can be discerned in the cockpit of a fighter on the location of the second pilot.




Photo Google+ Linus Torvalds

Yesterday Torvalds added to your Google+ photos, which you can see it in the cockpit. He apologizes for the quality of the photos, saying that Jim Zemlin (Jim Zemlin), executive director of the Linux Foundation and part-author of pictures, laughed so hard that the camera jerked and pictures turned out not very good definition.



Photo Google+ Linus Torvalds

You can see that the creator of Linux showed respect and pointed out his name on the plane. Torvalds has appeared invited to the air show because of its title sponsor this year was the company Intel, which in turn works closely with the Linux Foundation in the field of open source software.

The plane, which was flying Torvalds, is a training fighter Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star . It was created just after the Second World War. Although its production stopped back in 1959, this aircraft was in the US Navy before 1996.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/259112/