Real-Life Top Gun Pilots Married & Pregnant! OUR SUPERSONIC BABY-TO-BE

FLYING B-1 BOMBERS IS A FAMILY AFFAIR FOR AIR FORCE MAJORS LAUREN AND MARK OLME - AND THEIR CHILD ON THE WAY

- JOHNNY DODD

A few days after last Thanksgiving Maj. Lauren Olme was rocketing through a clear blue sky high above the sagebrush and cacti of the Nevada desert, wondering just how much longer she’d be able to fit into the cramped cockpit of the B-1 Lancer she was piloting. “Even without my belly,” says Lauren, who was 19 weeks pregnant at the time and wearing a custom maternity flight suit, “it was tight in there.”

While leading a practice mission— made up of more than 80 bombers, fighters, tankers and reconnaissance jets—she glanced out the bulletproof windscreen and spotted her husband, Maj. Mark Olme, piloting the B-1 bomber beside her. He was waving. “What a time to be alive,” she thought amid the deafening roar of the jet engines. “Flying in formation with my husband, going supersonic together while I carried our child is something I’ll never forget.”