An F-15D Eagle aircraft from the 493rd Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom takes off. Aboard the aircraft is the pilot, US Air Force Captain Connor Blackwood, from the 493rd FS, 48th FW, RAF Lakenheath, UK and Eric Domagalski of Katy, Texas, a member of the Texas A&M University male cadet choir. As a recruiting initiative aimed at stateside audiences, base officials, with the approval of higher headquarters, offered an F-15 incentive flight to one student. Eric's teachers chose him out of the 72 members. He received a flight physical; egress training and a full mission briefing before the afternoon take off
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Raf Lakenheath
State: East Anglia
Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)
Scene Camera Operator: A1C Joanna E. Reihle, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
21/05/2001
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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