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A.J. Hawk is still flying high, except without his lunch

Blue Angels

U.S. Navy flight demonstration team, The Blue Angels perform a flyover above graduating Midshipmen during the United States Naval Academy 2014 Class graduation and commissioning ceremonies at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis, Md., Friday May 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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A.J. Hawk has been preparing to fly with the Blue Angels for years.

But he still wasn’t ready for it when it finally happened.

The Packers linebacker admitted his long-awaited flight with the Navy’s jet-fighter demonstration squad didn’t go quite as he had hoped.

“I was dying,” Hawk said, via Jason Wilde of ESPNWisconsin.com. “I was terrible. . . .

“I’m a baby anyway. I get carsick, so I knew I was going to get sick up there.”

Hawk admitted he went to the airsick bag “two-plus” times during the 50-minute flight.

“[The pilot] is a nice guy. I didn’t puke on him. I got it in the bag,” he said. “Man, it was amazing. I’d do it again in a heartbeat. I felt bad because I was apologizing to him the whole time because I got sick.”

He had been scheduled to fly with them twice before, but was delayed by weather and a government sequester.

Perhaps his stomach, and his pilot, would have been better off if he waited a little longer.