Linus Torvalds flew on a fighter and felt what weightlessness is.

Linux Foundation published an interesting video: Linus Torvalds describes his impressions of flying a Lockheed T-33 fighter jet and the feeling of weightlessness. Leaving the cockpit, the creator of Linux, in his inherent brutal manner, admits that the flight "... it's cool, but not so much as to break through." This happened at the Oregon International Air Show last weekend. A little earlier, Torvalds in his Google+ also joked : “few people know, but between the pulls to the core, I relax flying on a fighter.” In several photographs that he posted, Torvalds can be distinguished in the cockpit of a fighter in place of the co-pilot.


Photo by Google+ Linus Torvalds

Yesterday, Torvalds addedthere are more photos on his Google+ that show him in the cockpit. He apologizes for the quality of the photos, saying that Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation and concurrently the author of the pictures, laughed so hard that the camera twitched and the pictures were not very clear.


Photo Google+ Linus Torvalds

You can see that the creator of Linux showed respect and indicated his name on board the aircraft. Torvalds was invited to the Air Show due to the fact that Intel became its title sponsor this year, which in turn works closely with the Linux Foundation in the field of open source software.

The plane Torvalds flew is the Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star fighter trainer. It was created immediately after the Second World War. Although its production was stopped back in 1959, such an aircraft was part of the U.S. Navy even before 1996.