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During Operation Desert Storm an F-4G Wild Weasel dodged 6 SAMs in few seconds. Heres how. - The Aviation Geek Club
2024-11-06 15:45:07| Spiritual Career Counseling
Share this articleI immediately selected AB, rolled the aircraft inverted, and pulled. All this while keeping the SA-2s on the beam. I was at 25,000 [feet] when I started for the deck and levelled at about 10,000, Jim Schreiner, former F-4G Wild Weasel pilot. The F-4G Wild Weasel was s dedicated SEAD variant for the US Air Force (USAF) with updated radar and avionics, converted from F-4E. The F-4G mission was to attack enemy air defenses, including surface-to-air missile (SAM) air defense radars. Carrying AGM-88A/B/C High Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM), the F-4G worked in concert with other F-4Gs or as a hunter aircraft directing fighter-bombers, such as the F-16, against SAM sites. The F-4G carried a pilot and an Electronic Warfare Officer (EWO), who navigated, assisted with communications and coordinated attacks on the SAM sites. The F-4G Wild Weasel first flew in 1975 and was retired in 1996. F-4Gs from George AFB and Spangdahlem AB were deployed to Sheikh Isa AB, Bahrain,fo...
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Australia (2008 film)
2024-11-06 08:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Australia is a 2008 epic romantic historical drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan. The film is a character story, set between 1939 and 1942 against a dramatised backdrop of events across northern Australia at the time, such as the bombing of Darwin during World War II.Production took place in Sydney, Darwin, Kununurra and Bowen. The film was released to cinemas on 26 November 2008 in the United States and in Australia on 26 December 2008, with subsequent worldwide release dates throughout late December 2008 and January and February 2009. Australia received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $211 million on a $130 million budget. The film received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design at the 81st Academy Awards. It is the third highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee (1986) and M...
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Plane crashes on Colorados trails: The horrors, histories, and now hikes
2024-11-06 05:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Many of Colorado's trails wind through spectacular sites hidden waterfalls, rocky peaks, dramatic ridge lines. But dotted along these Rocky Mountain paths is another scene that holds a different kind of emotion: plane crashes.These sites are frozen in time, telling silent stories of violent wrecks that now, dozens of years later, are surrounded by hushed forests and relatively few human visitors. Soft, leafy plants have curled around the jagged and crumpled pieces of metal and saplings are slowly replacing the mature trees destroyed all those years ago.Hikers may see a remembrance sign with brief details at some of the wrecks, but the full stories remain mostly tucked away in the fading folds of history.Unless you seek it out.So, hello reader.In Denver7's research below, we brush off the cobwebs to uncover the historical context behind each crash, what went wrong and the people who perished, so those who visit in the future can better appreciate what happened.(Note: The locations in...
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