Combat Aircraft

Volume 2 Number 1 April 1999

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In This Issue

• F/A-18 Fleet Readiness Squadrons
• As the Navy prepares for introduction of the F/A-18F Super Hornet, we examine the exhaustive training syllabus faced by Hornet aviators..
• F-15C Eagle
• Analyses of challenges faced by Eagle crews and maintainers in an era of tight budgets and expensive new fighter programs
• VF-2 'Bounty Hunters'
• The NAS Oceana-based 'Bounty Hunters' of VF-2 today fly the F-14D Super Tomcat but this Navy fighter squadron has a long and rich history..
• Guardrail
• The Beach-Raytheon Super King Air 200 fills a crucial role as the Army's most important SIGINT platform..
• Nellis 'Bandits'
• The mission of the USAF's only adversary squadron and its work high above the Nevada desert..
• The 100th Air Refueling Wing
• Located at RAF Mildenhall, the Third Air Force's 100 ARW is a diverse organization tasked with far more than refueling duties..
• Alpine Dragons
• We look at the interminable process through which Austria chose the SAAB Draken as its frontline fighter..
• Briefing: Harrier
• Part Two: We review Harrier European operators..
• The 'Bison' Hunter
• By presidential order, an RB-47E penetrated deep inside Soviet airspace in 1954 to access enemy bomber strength. Under attack from MiG-17s, the Stratojet barely made it home..
• The Blue Ghost
• Now a floating museum, the aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV 16) saw extensive service in World War II
• Temei Akamatsu
• Japan's notorious fighter ace was a man who came to know glory and despair

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