The YF-17 pics also were in the “That aircraft never flew with that airforce”-thread, at http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=26971

While you’re absolutely right there Ivan, you can’t deny that even despite those overwhelming odds in favour of the Hornet during those combat ops, the only air-to-air loss the US has suffered since Vietnam was a Hornet.

So perhaps it’s combat disproven as well?

Been a while again – ‘t was Shaun of the Dead. Absolutely brilliant, but possibly better if you combine it with something like Dawn of the Dead on a DVD couch night.

The F/A-18C/D will probably be a lot cheaper though. That’s what happens with second-hand stuff.

It’s D-HAUG, should be a former SABENA S-58C.

Do you have any upgraded MiG-21s? I have been looking for pix of Israeli upgraded Fishbeds for ages with little luck apart from this Ugandan Sparka and a couple of Ethiopian MiG-21’s but those were only overhauled in Israel not upgraded.

Unfortunately, no. I do know IAI has allowed a number of tours through their facilities, but they didn’t allow photographing or even writing down numbers…

Numnuts McNamara did the same thing when the F-12B was cancelled. All SR-71/F-12/A-12 production tooling was ordered to be destroyed.

Somehow it’s only the really interesting aircraft to which that happens: both the TSR.2 and the Sukhoi T4 got their tooling destroyed when those projects were cancelled. Politicians… 😡

During the hearing on to sell Pakistan F-16, a document was presented to House Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, in which the year, month, the day, and the hour of departure & arrival including the PAF C-130 aircraft serial number and the serial number of AIM-9B included were the names of the flight crew and the flight plan was presented on the table in which Pakistan had illegally transfared to PRC in 1967, which was later reversed engineerd into the Chinese PL-5 AAM.

Ah yes, those mythical PAF Herk-spotters. Probably just as mythical as the Pak AIM-9B -> China -> PL-5 link, as the PRC in 1967 already had their hands on a former Taiwanese AIM-9B that got stuck (unexploded) in the tail of a J-5.