Hi all - remember me? I'm still out here, but with some pretty "booked up" weekends between a new job (finally) and the kids soccer games.
Wanted to jump online to give everyone a bit of a preview of a project that I've been working on with Scott Brown of Afterburner Decals (http://www.afterburnerdecals.com/) for the past three or four years. Finally off to the printers is the first accurate decal representation of the Torrejon AB-based, and Doha, Qatar deployed 401st TFW(P) "Forgotten 1000" and 614th TFS Lucky Devils Desert Gulf War Vipers!
1,303 sorties by 28 aircraft, dropping 3.7 MILLION pounds of weapons in just 42 days. Yeah, it's my old jets!
F-16D 86-0047 13 Combat Missions Only two seat F-16 to fly combat missions during Desert Storm - if you have seen air-to-air photos/video of F-16's during the war, this is where they came from.
F-16C 86-0315 44 Combat Missions
F-16C 87-0221 54 Combat Missions Lucky Devils Squadron Jet
F-16C 87-0223 59 Combat Missions
F-16C 87-0224 10 Combat Missions Lost 21 Jan 1991 (own Mk.84) - Ball
F-16C 87-0226 59 Combat Missions
F-16C 87-0228 4 Combat Missions Lost 19 Jan 1991 (SAM) (Package Q) - 'MR' Roberts
F-16C 87-0229 59 Combat Missions ET Tullia's jet on the Baghdad run (Package Q) - you've all seen the Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uh4yMAx2UA)
F-16C 87-0242 55 Combat Missions
F-16C 87-0248 60 Combat Missions
F-16C 87-0257 4 Combat Missions Lost 19 Jan 1991 (SAM) (Package Q) - 'Tico' Tice
F-16C 87-0258 50 Combat Missions
F-16C 87-0259 58 Combat Missions
F-16C 87-0288 36 Combat Missions
So everybody, get yourself a big-mouthed Block 30 C - or D - Viper kit and a set of decals (in the Christmas to New Years time frame.)
Mike Kopack
Awesome Mike nice to hear from you; Look forward to seeing some F-16 done up. Hope you could make some of the upcoming meets.
regards,
Tony