Eric Domagalski, a member of the Texas A&M University male cadet choir gives a thumbs up. The pilot of the F-15D Eagle aircraft is US Air Force Captain Connor Blackwood, an F-15 pilot from the 493rd Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom. 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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