strikeeagle Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 (edited) Took these pics a few years back at a bro’s retirement ceremony. 86-0186 E004. The fourth Strike built and the first delivered to Luke back in 1988. I crewed her for about 4 years. I believe she’s a 336th jet now. Edited July 24, 2023 by strikeeagle 10 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueSqdn Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 I've been having massive Lakenheath flashbacks lately due to this module. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes not. But when it involves this jet (and not other things), it's good. 1 DEFENSOR FORTIS Spoiler Systems: Falcon NW Talon: Ryzen 9 5950X @4.9GHz, 64GB DDR4, RTX 3090 FE; Falcon NW Mach V: Core i7 3930K @3.2GHz, 32GB DDR3, GTX 1080 FE Cockpit: MonsterTech MTX F, 42" 4K TV, HP Reverb G2, Oculus Rift S, PointCTRL Controls: RS F16SGRH CE, RS F18CGRH, VPC T-50CM2, VFX, WarBRD (Grips); VPC T-50CM2, RS FSSB R3L (Bases); Winwing F/A-18C, VPC T-50CM3, VPC T-50CM, TM Warthog, Cougar (Throttles); VPC ACE2 (Rudders) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not_G Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 That had a red tail when you had it if I remember right 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sierra99 Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Someplace I have a pic of her on the boom I took during OIF or OEF...Tail numbers like that stood out over time. 1 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Primary Computer ASUS Z390-P, i7-9700K CPU @ 5.0Ghz, 32GB Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 @ 3200Mhz, ZOTAC GeForce 1070 Ti AMP Extreme, Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe drives (1Tb & 500 Gb), Windows 10 Professional, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, Thrustmaster Warthog Stick, Thrustmaster Cougar Throttle, Cougar MFDs x3, Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals and TrackIR 5. -={TAC}=-DCS Server Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3, i7-3770K CPU @ 3.90GHz, 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 @ 1600Mhz, ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 970. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strikeeagle Posted July 27, 2023 Author Share Posted July 27, 2023 On 7/26/2023 at 1:24 AM, Not_G said: That had a red tail when you had it if I remember right Correct! 4 hours ago, Sierra99 said: Someplace I have a pic of her on the boom I took during OIF or OEF...Tail numbers like that stood out over time. Would love to see it, but I believe it was still assigned to a FTU during those ops. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainmaker Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 5 minutes ago, strikeeagle said: Correct! Would love to see it, but I believe it was still assigned to a FTU during those ops. Agree. IIRC. 6186 wasn't in the active units. Might be now with the great number of tail swaps done to balance hours. Back then, the FTU birds had no EW gear on them, so they wouldn't have gone to the AOR. 7186 was also an FTU bird, but was the one that went down while we were deployed for OIF. 6189 was a replacement for 1701, and that one was a green tail. 188 was a yellow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strikeeagle Posted July 28, 2023 Author Share Posted July 28, 2023 On 7/27/2023 at 2:02 AM, Rainmaker said: Agree. IIRC. 6186 wasn't in the active units. Might be now with the great number of tail swaps done to balance hours. Back then, the FTU birds had no EW gear on them, so they wouldn't have gone to the AOR. 7186 was also an FTU bird, but was the one that went down while we were deployed for OIF. 6189 was a replacement for 1701, and that one was a green tail. 188 was a yellow. Dude, you and I have crossed paths for sure. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainmaker Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 42 minutes ago, strikeeagle said: Dude, you and I have crossed paths for sure. Its a small world man…probably. 6 degrees to Kevin Bacon, probably 1-2 to a strike eagle maintainer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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