South West USA trip March 2016

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South West USA trip March 2016

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Just a flavour, apologies for the dust-spots getting worse as the trip progressed....

Nellis for Red Flag 16-2, and afternoon arrivals at the Speedway end included this Seymour Johnson based F-15E Strike Eagle
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Nellis based 53 Wing F-16C
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Aggressor painted 57 Wing F-16C
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Shaw based F-16C turns in ahead of some Italian F-2000s
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B-1B arriving back at Nellis
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B-1B turning short at Nellis
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Operating with the Tucson based 162 FW was this "Warhawks" F-16C, seen departing Tucson
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Iraqi F-16 taxying out at Tucson
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Iraqi F-16 breaking into the circuit at Tucson
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Seen at Tucson on finals is Vermont based F-16C, also operating with the based 162 FW
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Dutch Air Force F-16AM landing at Tucson
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Davis Monthan based A-10 overshooting Tucson
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Taiwanese F-16A returning to base at Luke
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A pair of USAF 56 FW F-35As landing back at Luke
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Norwegian Air Force F-35A landing back at Luke
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Lucky escape for a Singapore Air Force F-16C at Luke
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Specially marked Singapore Air Force F-16D returning to Luke
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An asymetric load on this Hornet arriving at Yuma for the FWIT exercise
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Unusual angle on a AH-1Z at Yuma, test flying ready for the FWIT exercise
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Evening light at Yuma catching the contours of this based F-35B
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Local USMC AV-8B in the circuit at Yuma
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Hover landing by VMFA-121 F-35B at Yuma
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Two-seat trainer TAV-8B in the circuit at Yuma
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Re: South West USA trip March 2016

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Variaty is awesome but sorry to say most pictures miss some serious sharpness..

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Very cool to see the Norwegian Dave :)

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aviationblog wrote:Variaty is awesome but sorry to say most pictures miss some serious sharpness..


Don't be sorry! Yes, pretty good variety. These were unprocessed images, as I was just wanting to show the variety available for people to peruse, not bothered about critiquing web images.
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Nice post but pictures out of sync with wording

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SPLAT wrote:Nice post but pictures out of sync with wording


I believe you are mistaken. The text seems to correctly describe the image that follows it.
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i enjoyed the shots

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