The high flying Blue Angels are starting to swoop in for this weekend's show, and today our own Mark Holley got a chance to go for a ride.

The Blue Angels fly F-A 18 fighter jets that can go between 500 and 700 miles per hour.

Since the Blue Angels pilots take a lot of dramatic twists and turns, often experience the G-force and they go straight from the ground up to 15,000 feet in the air, Lt. Frank Weisser says not everyone deals with it the same way.

Weisser says, “It’s varied, some people do really well, it's hard to tell if someone's going to feel great in the aircraft of if they're going to be motion sick, or feel tired, but I’d say the great majority do really well.”

An example of how a G-force feels is when a plane goes so fast the gravity pushing against your body feels like a huge amount of pressure on your chest.

Mark Holley describes the experience, “When you start the G’s your eyes go, you start to see clouds, then you breath, you squeeze real hard, and then you come out of it, so your almost unconscious and then your out of it again.”

But in general Mark says the flying experience was pretty amazing, “It was the coolest thing I’ve ever done, and I’d do it again in a second.”

The Blue Angels will be at the Chippewa Valley Air Show and will perform this Saturday and Sunday beginning at 3:00.

The gates open this weekend at 8:30 in the morning and the show gets kicked off at noon by the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team.

Advance ticket sales have ended so tickets will be available at the gates this weekend for $20 for everyone ages 13 and up.

Parking on the grounds will be ten dollars.