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I would like to echo sygazelle's remarks; this is an excellent video. As you might imagine, I invariably find inaccuracies in material concerning Navy/Marine aviation, but this one is spot-on. Excellent find, Lady Jane!
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I went searching for CAG aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 5 based in Japan, thinking to illustrate the Japanese flavor to the markings. I was unable to find a recent group photo, but found these from 2007-2008. The second photo is of the aircraft flying by Mount Fuji.
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I appreciate the colorful livery on Navy and Marine aircraft, but sometimes you can get a little carried away with the paint brush!
Old photo: F/A-18C CAG aircraft of VFA-34 "Blue Blasters"
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On April 24th, 1959, USAF Captain John Stanley Lappo flew a Strategic Air Command Boeing RB-47E Stratojet UNDER the Mackinac Bridge:
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/ta...ey-lappo-usaf/ .
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His Nav ratted him out, Surprised most crews members don't rat out one another.
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Practically every aircraft has the assigned name, but then the crews come up with something amusing or even mildly derogatory to call the plane.
The F-35 is a bit ... how to say this politely... porky. An enormous high-output afterburning turbofan engine, plenty of internal fuel, advanced systems and stealth combine to make the F-35 unlikely to be named a beauty queen. Anyway, I do not know the origin of the new moniker, but I think it fits: The F-35C Battle Penguin!
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The F-22A Raptor has pretty good endurance for a high-performance fighter but when required can carry a pair of external fuel tanks for even better range. The external fuel tanks are rarely carried and thus rarely photographed. Here's a recent shot.
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But in some circumstances, stealth is not the top priority. For instance, I suspect that the 3rd Wing's F-22As out of Elmendorf carry drop tanks more frequently than the other wings due to the possibility of getting caught in deteriorating weather. (And circumstances required, I believe the F-22A drops not only the tank but the pylon as well.)
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However, dropping them willy-nilly gets spendy fast, and unless you have an unlimited supply of tanks, that's a limited-trick pony. R.
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"Spendy" is the F-22's middle name!
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We've discussed the U.S. Air Force's tactical aircraft presence in the Western Pacific a couple of times. The 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, is right in the thick of the great power competition going on with China's military buildup. The 18th originally was assigned three F-15C squadrons with 72 aircraft; first it lost one of its three squadrons but maintained two fighter squadrons with 48 F-15s for many years. As the sunset for the F-15C nears, the 18th is now down to just a few old F-15Cs and the Air Force has been filling the gap by deploying fighters to Kadena on a temporary basis. Most recently a sizeable group of F-22A Raptors has been deployed, along with a smaller number of F-16Cs.
The 18th Wing recently conducted an elephant walk where all available aircraft start up and taxi out. Here's a photo. You can see just several F-15s, a number of F-16s and an even larger number of F-22s. There are also tankers and E-3 radar planes in the photo and leading the way are a couple of helicopters. Very impressive -- and I'm sure that the Chinese took notice.
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Our local TV news had this story on this morning, about a Swiss Air pilot cleared to take off from JFK rejecting their takeoff because not one, not two, but *three* other planes were crossing the runway as they started their takeoff roll:
https://simpleflying.com/swiss-near-...jfk-atc-error/ .
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Here's something you certainly don't see every day...
The first F-35C, now sans engine and much other equipment, being carried below a Marine Corps CH-53K King Stallion, which is being refueled in the air by a KC-130T!
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The F-35C is F-35C number one and the Navy was done with testing it at Patuxent River, Maryland, but wanted to use it for ground handling at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Well, how to best get it there? Hey, how about that cool new Marine CH-53K?
My suspicion is that the helo did not actually need to be refueled but they decided it would be a good opportunity to run that test again.
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