August 22, 20223 yr jk6104 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr jk6105 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr jk6107 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr jk6108 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr jk6111 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr All my FSX/P3D repaints are here on Avsim, for my MSFS repaints, go to FS.2
August 22, 20223 yr Cool !! Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
August 22, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, John F said: Nice paint and interesting locale. John The United States acquired a MIG 21 in 1967. It came from an Iraqi pilot who defected with the airplane to Israel, who then provided the aircraft to the US. It was tested at Groom Lake in 1968 under a highly classified project called “Have Doughnut”. At the time, my father was employed as a C-47 pilot for a company that was the predecessor to today’s “Janet” operation, shuttling personnel from Las Vegas to Area 51. One day at the base cafeteria, he ran into one of the USAF MIG test pilots - a Colonel Fred Cuthill, who had been one of my father’s students when he was an AF primary flight instructor in the 1950s. I remember at the time Dad mentioning that he had run into one of his former flight students, “at work” but it was only many years later that he told the full story of exactly what Col. Cuthill was doing at Groom Lake. Jim BarrettLicensed Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic, Avionics, Electrical & Air Data Systems Specialist. Qualified on: Falcon 900, CRJ-200, Dornier 328-100, Hawker 850XP and 1000, Lear 35, 45, 55 and 60, Gulfstream IV and 550, Embraer 135, Beech Premiere and 400A, MD-80.
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