Thursday, December 24, 2009

From Zane

I got these few emails and pictures from Zane recently and wanted to share them on the blog:

"Here are some pictures I took during a run of some MIG 21s and 25s. The first MIG -21 is parked in the palm grove for some reason. The palm trees are in an oasis which is the site of one of Abraham's wells, a biblical site. The other jets are out in the desert in the Iraqi part of the base. I've been passed a few times by Iraqis in vehicles wearing black ski masks and mounted machine guns. I'm not 100% comfortable with it. One of the weird things about these jets is 1; why are they there, and 2; some of the labels and are in Russian and some, if not most are in English (including cockpit gauges). One instrument panel will have both english and russian writing."


"This is me on my first HAC flight after sticking a complete brown out landing on the Jordanian border with 12 troops on board plus my crew. We don't usually have to land on unprepared surfaces but there was a 53 (which we later escorted the dash two home) broke down on the pad so we had to land in the dust."


"Me flying dash 2 with a CH-53 as dash 3 over Bagdhad."

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