I don’t think it’s any Hunter at all. Look at the box-like thing behind the nosewheel: looks like a JZ-8 recce bird to me. Although i could be wrong though, the 70th Reg / 24 Div (with the 2xx5x codes) should be a J-8E unit.

Paging Rick!

For the tactical aircraft (so not the B-52s from Fairford or B-2s from Whitman), Spang was actually one of the bases furthest out. At least in Germany, only RAFG Brüggen (RAF Tornados and for some time Canadian CF-18s) was further out from the target area. From what i recall (could be wrong though, don’t know by head if bases in Turkey were used or not) all other bases were either in Italy (USAF, NATO allies) or Hungary (USMC stuff mostly).

Originally posted by SOC
Notice that someone bumped into this particular model as well, as the nose probe has been bent to one side 😀

… which reminds me of a question i’ve been having for many years now.

While i had seen it previously on a number of occasions, i only really asked when i saw the two Oraos preserved in Bucharest. Both of these (one at the aircraft museum at Baneasa, the other one in the military museum downtown) had their pitot tubes bent, in order to make them (as was said to me) ‘permanently grounded.’ I understood this as it would be impossible to straighten the pitot tubes again without an incredible amount of recalibrating. But that’s just me, the non-engineer.

Can anyone confirm this?

But if you want to actually intercept any intruders, you would want more than just a dozen fighters.

Pluto,
Spangdahlem ‘airstrip’ where the F-117s were flying from is some 1200 kilometres away from Belgrade, i don’t think this is very close to the strike zone (but then, it might be to you since everything in the US is bigger 😉 ). Also, all F-117 ops were flown at night.

Apart from that: yes, the F-117 was shot down because the planners were too lazy to change ingress/egress routes. Of course, if it works once…

Originally posted by pluto77189
…Freind of mine that just got back from BAghdad had some stories. I was really surprised, because HE said that almost ALL the Iraqis were very happy they were there, and that the few that weren’t, well, were surprised that the us soilders ALLOWED them to voice their opinions, ask questions, and actually get responses….

Well, kudos to your friend then. Speaking with some 20 million people is quite an effort.

What was it again? “An armed nation is a safe nation” or something like that?