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Thanks! Here is a log of that day (F17_114PM could you maybe delete the links in your postF17_114PM wrote:stipjes wrote:After Iwakuni and some wrecks I drove to the South Island. I only made one mistake, like te day before I stopped at a parking to get one hour of sleep but when the alarm clock started at 1900 I turned it off and slept… until 00.30 when I woke up with no more sleep. What can you do in Japan at 00.33???? Just buy a coffe and visit wrecks in the dark. After some helicopters and T-33's I went back to sleep at 5 for an hour. At 6.30 I was present at the fence opposite to the Omura hangars. When the sun rose the hangars opened. Great photography! After a while 2 canabalised H-60's made the last trip to the storage yard to join the one already present there (see pic).
At 9 am I left for Tsuiki (my main goal), on the way I made a quick stop at Metabaru, there were some UH-1's park outside but no further activity. Tsuiki was very busy and F-15's were on "deployment". It was a great day!I experimented a bit with the colours in the pics...
Great Patrick, realy great
Hope more will come!
?, it get soo long with the pics being presented again). HvD sent me some corrections (thanks!) on the Akoeno log and I edited it. Hope this log is 100% correct 
.. I slept on a parking close to Nyutabaru and flying started before I woke up at 7.00. There was a lot of activity with many visiting F-15's but after the morning sortie I quickly raced to Kanoya, one of the highlights of the trip. There was so much activity but I did not realise an excercise was going on (JvB and AvN, who I met several times during the trip, told me about the excerxcise). The golden hour with aircraft returning was beautifull!
. After half an hour of photography I drove to some preserved aircraft were I was kindly invited inside and was asked to wait for some checks. After 5 minutes I did not like the situation and kindly said I would leave. For the Japanese this was not an option, for me it was because I wanted to get to Iwakuni for the Southern wind . I arrived at Iwakuni around 13.00 and stayed until sunset, there was so much activity that I was very sad to see the sun set around 1700. 
The C being (temporary) replacement for the chrashed D one!? USMC run out of D's?FredL wrote:Nice listing !
VMFA(AW)-242 planes are legacy "Hornets", not "Super Hornets". Idem regarding VMFA(AW)-224 jets.
As far as I can understand, looking at picture nr. 96, and even if it looks strange for a VMFA(AW)-242 jet, 164966/16 VMFA(AW)-242 is an F/A-18C, not a "D". It shows a bat's wing od the inner tail surface, which confirme its writings, telling it is a VMFA(AW)-242 aircraft.
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