Spangdahlem Air Base's 26-07-2008 Open House

Holloman · Post by **Holloman** » 26 Jul 2008, 23:05

Holloman

Javindo50 · Post by **Javindo50** » 26 Jul 2008, 23:29

DJMikey · Post by **DJMikey** » 27 Jul 2008, 14:26

Just 3 for now.

Grt, Mike.

Emmer · Post by **Emmer** » 27 Jul 2008, 16:52

That F-15 , is a Strike Eagle version isn'it? From Lakenheath i thought.

Hilco · Post by **Hilco** » 27 Jul 2008, 17:05

@ Emmer:
You are right, it is an F-15E strike Eagle. It is based at Lakenheath in the UK.

Greetz Hilco

perrie · Post by **perrie** » 27 Jul 2008, 17:12

Hi Emmer,

Yes it's from RAF Lakenheath.
Lakenheath flies 2 F-15E Strike Eagle squadrons:
492 FS: these aircraft have a blue tail fin
494FS: these aircraft have a red tailfin like the one you saw at Spangdahlem.

493 FS flies the F-15C/D Eagle and is also based at Lakenheath. There a quite some Eagles over there.

Per

Paveway · Post by **Paveway** » 28 Jul 2008, 14:57

Hi,

I've been to Spangdahlem too, but had to leave around 12.
Did the F-16 and the A-10 perform a full demo or just take-off, fly-by and landing?
According the program there was also a C-17 fly-by planned. Did it come or was it cancelled?

Greetings

VinFlyer · Post by **VinFlyer** » 28 Jul 2008, 15:21

F-16 did take-off, one fly-by and landed.
A-10 the same but did one touch and go before his landing
There was no C-17 flying (or static). I will post some pics of that later today.

Javindo50 · Post by **Javindo50** » 28 Jul 2008, 16:20

Some more pics:

Flanker · Post by **Flanker** » 29 Jul 2008, 08:57

some of mine:

USAFE · Post by **USAFE** » 29 Jul 2008, 10:38

here are some of my ones:

marcel32us · Post by **marcel32us** » 29 Jul 2008, 11:24

Could anyone explain what the object attached to some of the F-16's is? I've never seen it before (my bad).

See below (the red arrow) which object I mean.

TIA,
Marcel

PS: Flanker, I borrowed one of yours to point out what I mean, hope you don't mind

VinFlyer · Post by **VinFlyer** » 29 Jul 2008, 11:33

marcel32us wrote:Could anyone explain what the object attached to some of the F-16's is? I've never seen it before (my bad).

That's the AN/ASQ-213 HTS (HARM Targeting System). That system is able to detect, locate and identify ground-based radar emitters. The pilot then can use his HARM missiles (the big white "rockets" under the wing) to destroy those radar emitters.

Raptor16 · Post by **Raptor16** » 29 Jul 2008, 11:50

Also before the CCIP mod (you can see that when the planes have MLU-style "birdslicers) the HTS pod was carried at the other side of the intake, so now it's able to carry both the HTS and Lantirn/Litening/Sniper-XR on both sides of the intake.

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