Barry M. Goldwater Range

[Chris Kennedy]

Were those sequential frames, or were there others in between?

[Joe Copalman]

Sequential @ 6.3 fps. 

I got lucky yesterday and caught four hits with the fireballs shooting out the end of the BDUs.  One of them was another bullseye with the bomb visible in the preceding frame, but it wasn't as obvious as this one.  I really had to look for that one.

Also have a few tiny airplane/big sky shots where you can see the bomb coming off the TER and falling from the aircraft.

[Matt Ottosen]

Fairchild-Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II
357th Fighter Squadron (357 FS) "Dragons"

[Daniel DeSart]

[Jay Beckman]

Didn't realize that -1 was a Dragon and -2 was a Lobo...

[Joe Copalman]

Crews were both from the Lobos though.  On our last visit, there was on A-10 that wore markings from both the Lobos and the Bulldogs. 

[Jay Beckman]

Oh, ok then...

So it's the 357th FS and the 358th FS which both fall under the 355th FW, right?

[Joe Copalman]

And the 354th (Bulldogs).  Maybe Chris H. or Joel can shed some light on this - do squadrons draw aircraft from a wing "pool," or are airframes just swapped so frequently between squadrons that markings become meaningless?

[Joel Hamm]

We were one big happy family like 2 years ago all AMU's were disbanded and became an Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS) with that they took away all identity of squadrons so many of the tails became vanilla tails with no squad markings. That changed so we are now catching up to getting all acft with their proper squad markings. We are back to individual AMU/Fighter Squadrons. Thank goodness.

[jslugman]

We were one big happy family like 2 years ago all AMU's were disbanded and became an Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS) with that they took away all identity of squadrons so many of the tails became vanilla tails with no squad markings. That changed so we are now catching up to getting all acft with their proper squad markings. We are back to individual AMU/Fighter Squadrons. Thank goodness.

SWEET! The AMXS thing is a nightmare when trying to figure out which planes belongs where when the markings are mixed up or non-existent.

Do you know if the EC's are going back to Squadron markings by any chance?

[Joe Copalman]

BEHIND ENEMY LINES

Kahuna 1 arriving at Range 2 for some bomb and low-angle strafe practice.  Autofocus went stupid as I was tracking it and focused on the phone lines in the foreground.  Result was actually kind of cool, so I kept it.

[Matt Ottosen]

Fairchild-Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II
358th Fighter Squadron (358 FS) "Lobos "

[Matt Ottosen]

Fairchild-Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II
357th Fighter Squadron (357 FS) "Dragons"

[Joe Copalman]

357th Hawg off-target after a strafe run at BMGR:

[Matt Ottosen]

Fairchild-Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II
358th Fighter Squadron (358 FS) "Lobos "

KAHUNA 2 Arriving on Station