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Operation Desert Storm, with one of my favorite planes

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Citing Osprey Combat Aircraft 143's closing line... "...for an aircraft, that is arguably the most unsung hero of its two major wars."

For some reason this one has a special place in my heart, so I had to polish it a bit. Thanks to CAF for the model.

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that very first formation is a rather interesting mix of birds

somewhere over the Med

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i get teh feeling we're not welcome

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do svindanya!

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time to do some of that pilot sh!t

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tell corrosion control, missing markings for 3 MiGs and one Moskva class battlecruiser....

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Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong

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Can you hear me, Major Tom?

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The Last Herk out of South Vietnam

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Listened to a Podcast interviewing one of the Red Eagles recently, he talked about his journey to get there and how the only dedicated air-to-air F-4E units in the USAF after Vietnam were the 36th TFS out of Osan in Korea and the 57th FIS out of Keflavik in Iceland. He made his way to the 36th in order boost his chances of an aggressor squadron posting. On a side note when I was researching the 'Hill Grey' scheme for the 36th I learnt there was an initial 3-tone grey 'Hill Grey 1' scheme used on the first F-4E to be repainted. It was closer to the original 3-tone grey scheme on the F-16A with all light grey undersides (and drop tanks), it only really appeared on US F-4E Phantoms in Korea.

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