A chance of a lifetime for Ross Vezin wasn’t feeling like a great life decision Tuesday night. The Port Royal resident and lieutenant with the Beaufort-Port Royal Fire Department was invited to fly in an F/A-18 Hornet, one of the U.S. Navy’s iconic Blue Angels, on Wednesday. The No. 7 jet was in town earlier than the rest of the demonstration team ahead of the Mcas Beaufort Air Show, which will be Saturday and Sunday at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort. “I think I made the ultimate mistake and watched YouTube vidoes on it the night before and kind of freaked myself out,” Vezin said. “Once I saw the plane and the pilot, I was pumped up and excited.” Before the flight, Vezin was taught how to properly flex muscles to handle the G-force and keep from blacking out, including imagining squeezing a beach ball between his legs. But there were a couple times he felt he lost it, including during a turn Vezin said was 7 1/2 Gs. He came to with pilot Lt. Brandon Hempler calling his name. The rest of us will have to experience the thrill from the ground this weekend. Additional noise overhead this week [...]