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Michael J. Novosel. 1922-2006.04.02.
CWO, US Army. Lieutenant Colonel, USAF.
Medal of Honour.

More.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20060407-00000101-jij-soci

2006.04.06:
JASDF 20,000th scramble to intercept incoming bogeys, since 1958 May.
Recently, more Chinese military aircraft.
The 20,000th scramble was a F-15 at Hyakuri AB, Ibaraki Prefecture, on 2006.04.06.
The 10,000th scramble was in 1983.

Personally, I’m more attracted to photos of an A-10 with all, or almost all, of its hard points carrying ordnance: CBUs, ECM pod, Sidewinders, plus a kitchen sink.

A naked A-10 looks IMO borrring, even when it’s gone Winchester only because it’s just returning to base after a profitable mission into hostile territory, where it expended all its ordnance.

(Yes, I’m also attracted to photos of a F-14 carrying six AIM-54s. How did you know?)

I guess this is one of my quirks as a flight-simmer, where more ordnance > more air and ground kills > higher scores.

WTF. The YA-10B is even uglier than the A-10A.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=5851859&PageNum=0

“MiG-29 detained in Xianggang was sold to USA as museum piece”

05.04.2006, 18.08

KIEV, April 5 (Itar-Tass) – The MiG-29 warplane, detained in Xianggang /Hong Kong/, was sold by Ukraine to the United States in 2005 as a museum exhibit, the state-owned Ukrspetsexport weapons trading company told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.

[IMO: Mystery solved?]

If this pic is real, 81195 and 81196 now have in-flight refuelling probes. 8D