First Gripens arrive in Hungary
Info and pics at http://www.gripen.com

This morning the Pong Su sunk, after it was hit by a RAAF F-111 aircraft dropping two thousand-pound laser guided bombs during a bombing mission 140 kilometres (87 miles) off the New South Wales Coast south of Sydney.
Pics and videos are on TV and on the Internet!
http://au.news.yahoo.com/mediaframe/index.html?c_id=4303

Great Birthday Treat, Ja!!! 😉 :diablo: 😀

“Synchronicity”

And the Oscar goes to…….
Sandy aka Bmused55 !!!

Superb work, Sandy!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

The music, the frames, the aircraft… it all fits perfectly!!!

The song “Adiemus”, featuring vocals of Miriam Stockley, is from the album “Songs of Sanctuary” of Karl Jenkins.
In the 90’s the airline Delta had on german TV and Radio a commercial TV spot, showing many Delta Airlines B767’s flying in formation, in analogy with four dolphins swimming, and the song ‘Adiemus’ in the background!
This spot is one of the best spots for airlines ever! 😎 🙂

Maybe someone has on his PC or knows, where you can find it on the Internet. 🙂
Edit: Found here a link, but bad quality and en french:
http://www.airodyssey.net/multimedia/tvc-delta.html

Synchronisation (1994/International) : Delta Air Lines, in this commercial, is not only a US domestic airline, it becomes an international carrier with “220 Delta aircraft flying from Europe to the USA. And it’s all a matter of synchronisation”.

Here another link, same video, but slightly better quality!
http://www.adeater.com/bin/view.cgi?/usr2/internet/www/adeater/welcome2.html,1,ZurlW/MULTI/html/cinema.htmlZ
Just type “Delta” at “Theme or Keyword”!

F-15F offered to Germany/ F-15 IN SAUDI SERVICE

I remember the F-15″F” as a single seat version of the F-15E ‘Strike Eagle’ was also offered to Germany in the 90’s to replace their F-4’s.
F-15 IN SAUDI SERVICE:

[2.4] F-15 IN SAUDI SERVICE
* Saudi Arabia has received a good number of F-15s under the “Peace Sun” series of export programs. The first deliveries provided 46 F-15Cs and 16 F-15Ds, for a total of 62 aircraft; the US Congress had specified that the Saudis should have no more than 60 Eagles, but two F-15As were lost in accidents and replacements were provided. A further batch of 12 attrition aircraft was ordered in 1991, consisting of nine F-15Cs and three F-15Ds.

The limits went out the window during the Gulf War, and 24 F-15C/Ds were transferred from the USAF in Europe to build up Saudi warfighting capabilities. Some sensitive countermeasures gear was removed from these aircraft before delivery.

* In 1991, after the Gulf War, the Saudis began shopping for new weapons, and MDD tried to sell them a single-seat version of the Strike Eagle designated the “F-15F”, which Congress shot down; then a two-seat tuned-down version of the Strike Eagle designated the “F-15H”, which Congress also shot down; and then another proposal along the same lines, originally designated the “F-15XP”. This one did fly, Congress giving their blessing on 10 May 1993, with the type becoming the “F-15S”.

The Saudis received 72 F-15S Eagles from 1995 into 2000. Some sources claim that some of these machines were intended for the air superiority role, but other sources contradict this, pointing out that the Saudis have plenty of older F-15s for this task.

The F-15S features a slightly simplified “AN/APG-70S” radar that deletes terrain-mapping mode and has a downgraded self-defense suite. The Saudis did obtain 48 sets of a simplified version of the LANTIRN pod system, featuring the AN/AAQ-19 Sharpshooter targeting pod and the AN/AAQ-20 Pathfinder navigation pod.

Some sources claim these aircraft were initially delivered with Dash-1-style CFTs, meaning that offensive stores had to be carried on the centerline and wing pylons, usually with multiple-ejector racks, but the Saudis later received the full Dash-4 CFTs with their stores attachments.

There was some fuss in the US Congress over the sale of the F-15S to Saudi Arabia, which helped lead to the later sale of the F-15I to Israel as a counterbalance.

* Saudi F-15s have scored a number of kills. Two Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) F-15Cs shot down two Iranian F-4Es during a border confrontation on 5 June 1984. This is one of the few times, possibly the only time, one McDonnell Douglas fighter shot down another. Two kills were scored by a Saudi F-15C pilot, Captain Ayehid Salah al-Shamarni, against Iraqi Mirage F1 fighters during the Gulf War.

Source: Faqs.org – [2.0] F-15 In Service

….Who knows,maybe Germany will wise up and buy some instead of the A400s.(Well,I can always hope)

The C-17 is too expensive for the german government, and the german industry is too much involved in the A400M programm.

My hope is still a European Air Mobility Command in 10-15 years, HQ in Luxembourg (like the NATO AWAC’s deal), aircrafts stationend all over Europe with multinational crews. Aircrafts would be C-17’s, C-130’s and A400M’s and smaller tactical cargo freighters.

Great pic’s!
And where is the microwave? 😀

Does the Polish F-16 have a brake parachute or/and sensors (ECM?) in the tail?

I think the intakes are different on this model.