YEAGER AT FLIGHT
Essay on the impossibility of the nomadic position / 2001

The Fighter pilot is the perfect nomadic figure. When he is in a dogfight he perceives his surroundings as a fluid environment on which he floats like a surfer on the waves. The sun, the horizon, his relative speed, his machine, the wind, all are non-hierarchical parameters that he uses to his advantage…To avoid becoming a target he needs to stay unpredictable… therefore he can use no system nor logic… as Yeager said, as ‘when you think you are dead’.  He has to become one with his machine and the surroundings and push the envelope until he becomes ballistic. To hit his enemy he doesn’t shoot at him from a fixed position but rather flies the bullet into position…
When the Pilot is in fighting mode, he is the perfect metaphor for a ‘Deleuzian’ nomadism, which posits the nomadic figure against the state… Irony is that this pilot fights wars in the name of that same state.        

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