fighter plane. Whats the story behind that?
The following was posted on March 1, 1994 by steve.struthers@homebase.com (Steve Struthers): It’s well known that Alex has a private pilot’s licence, but he has never been a pilot in the RCAF. About a year and a half ago, Rush sold the rights to “Where’s My Thing” to the Department of National Defence (the federal government department in Canada which handles defence-related matters) for use in a new recruiting video. As part of the deal, the military agreed to take Alex for a spin in a CF-5A fighter jet (The US Air Force and Air National Guard fly the same jet, which in US nomenclature is called the F-5A). Alex’s experience as a “fighter-pilot-for-a-day” was detailed in a magazine called Sentinel , which is published by the Government of Canada for members of the Canadian military. Sentinel can also be found in public libraries, usually in medium to large-size Canadian cities. Apparently Alex had a blast up there in the wild blue yonder, but after the flight he was slightly dismayed a
