A nice capture of Joe “Reb” Edwards in his T-28 Trojan Navy trainer during the Culpeper Air Fest airshow last weekend (early October 2018.)
Joe Reb was an F-14 Tomcat pilot and we crossed paths back in the early 90s when I was with the Navy Operations team at Grumman in Calverton, NY and Joe Reb was doing F-14D sorts of things.
Joe ended up going on to a NASA career, piloting the Space shuttle on STS-89, the last trip to the MIR space station in 1998. Currently, he has a consulting company based out of northern Virginia and flies this beautiful aircraft on the air show circuit when he can through Joe Edwards Airshows.
Life is good.