Nightshade/PR

Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu) Photo Recon.

Shaw

Target Destroyed

Dawn Tyger

Depends on what I'm feeling that day, so I'm liable to take anything out of the hangar. I love A/G & SAM hunts, so I'm partial to ones I can hang a LOT of ordinance on. As well as nukes. But there are 3 that I fly more than others. 3. Mirages (any); Specifically: Mirage III. Sleek: Fast: Elegant: Beautiful even when standing still, and oh so deadly. You can do it all in them. All weather, all-world, and as long as you utilize it's strengths, it will more than hold their own in a dogfiht with almost anything. As an attack jet, they're perfectly suited for whatever mission you want to run. 2.A-7's. When it absolutely, positively has to be blown up and the debris bounced, that's you plane, AF version or Navy. 1. The Tornado. Any model; any version; any mission; any nationality (Especially the IDS Marineflieger models) IMHO, pound-for-pound, the best strike aircraft ever produced.

Amen to that...The unarmed portion is correct...........

Love the Zweibrücken bird........ Unlike this guy, whose last words were probably "What The @#$%^"?

I do like it. I'll like it even better after having dropped this with it:

Training, Training, Training.........

"Stay Low, and Follow Me"

“There are very few problems that cannot be solved through the suitable application of high explosives.” About 150kt worth should do it..........

The Royal Navy in Korea, circa 1950.......

I remember that......

Korea, 1968. The Navy has decided to do some COIN Training in a real-world environment, without the pesky AAA & SAMS of Vietnam. Where better than the "Land Of The Morning Calm"? "What could possibly go wrong? It'll be a milk-run, and you'll be in and out before the NK's get wise." (The guy in back has that look that says, "I am so screwed.") Intel was correct; there's the target, and so far, NO bad guys!!!! Emptied the pods and dropped the empties. (Remember the back seater's look?) The bad guys showed up to spoil the day but couldn't get a good run in because we were so low. They got chased off by a 4-ship of F-8's that came to our rescue.

This photo set was inspired by DaddyAirplanes...... "View from the Break" Looks cool, but when I came around, I Missed EVERY Wire, forgot to throttle up, skidded off the side, and went into the water right next to the carrier while laughing........