Tucson International Airport (TUS, KTUS)

[Bubak]

..nice Bill!

[bilwor]

Thanks, Kaspar

[Joe Copalman]

"I'm from Holland, izn't zhat veird?"

[Joe Copalman]

[Ned Harris]

Stretch the Great Egret landing at TIA on 8/16/11.



_92W5209 Frontier A-319 by Ned Harris, on Flickr

[Jeff D. Welker]

Joe - You knows hows I like my Beeches!

Ned - You and your nature themes - very nice catch.

[Joe Copalman]

Any day that starts with a Test Center Viper making a shallow departure in full afterburner is going to be a good day.

[Ned Harris]

 Departing TIA on 8/23/11 with BDU-33 practice bombs.


_92W6229 F-16C  (s/n 84-1294) by Ned Harris, on Flickr

[Ned Harris]

Blue light visible from targeting pod on AATC F-16C landing at TIA on 8/23/11.


_92W6254 Blue light special by Ned Harris, on Flickr

[Jeff D. Welker]

Were you able to capture the blue light because the targeting pod was locked onto you        

[Joe Copalman]

Typically not something I nerd out on, as I'm not really a "spotter" type, but I just noticed that two of the Test Center birds that went up on Tuesday morning were sister ships - 86-0211 (Ned's shot) and 86-0212 (my shot). 

[Jay Beckman]

I'd have to call seeing the Pod "eye" a malfunction of some kind.

Really rare/odd to see one uncovered in the pattern.

[Joe Copalman]

I'll have to poke around on my TIA shots, but I'm pretty sure it's not all that uncommon.  I've seen unmasked pods on Vipers out at Luke and Harriers at Willie as well. 

[Jay Beckman]

I recall the UAE birds sported a different style that didn't (outwardly) appear to have any gimbal action to them but I would think the one in Ned's shot could be FOD'd quite easily if the front element were not caged.

But I'm probably wrong...

[bilwor]

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