Excellent picture indeed, who did the 707 upgrade work?

A few questions, Twilight2002:
1. Precisely why did Greek Cypriots reject the unification, what was it about the deal they did not like?
2. Where do you go from here, what are the prospects of a future reunification?
3. Is there fear in Greek Cyprus that the northern republic might get recognized by the outside now that talks of reunification failed?

So they put that F-16 there every year?
(I saw it there last year)

Not necessarily. Two years ago I saw 777, and 107 (top scoring IDF/AF F-16 and another participant of the Iraqi raid) is another popular one. I guess the Columbia disaster made 243 a natural candidate for the Memorial and Independence Days display.

Two more visitors …

Cool! Isn’t that the old Iraqi AF roundel used during WW2?

Iraqi yes, but other than that JJ is right. It’s the kill marking borne by the aircraft which destroyed Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981. This specific aircraft is 243, the plane Ilan Ramon flew at the time.

The missile, BTW, says CATM-120C, whatever that means.

OK, here are the Python 5 photos, I’ll post some others later on.

IDF/AF back-seaters (henceforth navigators )are certainly not qualified combat pilots. During the first year of flight school all cadets go through their training together, but afterwards go in different ways. Navigators, both cargo and combat, spend some further time together before they too separate to follow two distinct paths.
Until not so long ago navigators even had wings different from those of pilots.
(see http://www.iaf.org.il/Templates/Present/EmblemsAndSquadrons.aspx?lang=EN&lobbyID=33&folderID=35&subfolderID=91 ).

Originally posted by aditya
I remember reading here that in the first operation by IDF/AF in which a female officer saw action was when an F-16 PGM’d a Hamas target. The poster used the word ‘navigator’.

That because the IDF/AF doesn’t use two different terms. The training is different, but whether you sit in the back seat of an F-15I or inside a C-130, you’ve got the same title, Navat (navigator).

Originally posted by Stieglitz
14) there where reports that the Israeli Defence Force holds substantial remains of a beaufighter, claiming to be from TT 10, RD448.

“substantial” is a very relative term, here’s RD135 two months ago :