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Nice shots Starman & i enjoyed the humour as well.Starman wrote:With some time on my hands it was opportune to seek out the "new" IAF Eagle, and I was just going to give you that, but if one of our so called members of the Knesset (parliament) can flout the rules, endangering a family, then I can post photos of the sky with some grey shapes in the foreground. Hope you like them. Nah, I know you will!
Here we go then, and at number five, from 1976, but rumored to be due for phase-out as the "new" Ds come on line, its an F-15A with FMS 76-1505, performing the much loved low-roll-out left take-off ….
654 by Starman OK, on Flickr
At number 4, from the 1980 delivery we have F-15C "Commando" displaying 3 and a half kills (downgraded from 4 and a half) the former 80-0129 (which actually appears on the NWD)
840 by Starman OK, on Flickr
Moving forward to 1983 and at number 3, another F-15C showing her nether regions, the 83-0054 named "Nachshon" (I hadn't noted the name before)
505 by Starman OK, on Flickr
Number 2, a former Lakenheath favourite (delivered thru there some years ago) and now confirmed as FMS 90-0277, named "shoshanat harochot" (Compass points, but not really visible from this angle)
715 by Starman OK, on Flickr
Finally, and the moment you've all been waiting for, Top of the Pops, the former Oregon Guard 80-0055, now resplendent in new boots and panties (surely new paint and R2D2-unit, ed), but alarmingly (for the superstitious) with the same name as the unfortunate 110 (now rebuilt as 122) Hod hachanit (spear point, or "point of the spear" for the pedantic)
980 by Starman OK, on Flickr
I do!Starman wrote:If you think I'm up to it.....
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