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tony6
10-01-2006, 06:08 AM
Photos taken in a National Guard base at Tucson:
http://www.wp.mil.pl/galeria/586/zdjecie_586_7632.jpg
http://www.wp.mil.pl/galeria/586/zdjecie_586_7641.jpg
http://www.wp.mil.pl/galeria/586/zdjecie_586_7648.jpg
http://www.wp.mil.pl/galeria/586/zdjecie_586_7651.jpg
http://www.wp.mil.pl/galeria/586/zdjecie_586_7656.jpg
http://www.wp.mil.pl/galeria/586/zdjecie_586_7660.jpg

The whole gallery:
http://www.wp.mil.pl/galeria_wiecej.php?lang=1&idgaleria=586
Granit
10-01-2006, 10:02 AM
Good to see these pictures but why there is no young pilots?

Anyway thx for posting
joedirt
10-01-2006, 10:35 AM
probably because the f-16 is the best plane they have and those who get to fly it are the vets with the most flight time and skill.
chidozie
10-01-2006, 10:46 AM
God I Love That Plane!!
gemjarnar
10-01-2006, 11:14 AM
if im not mistaken they train the vets so they can be instructors back home.
Korath
10-01-2006, 11:55 AM
if im not mistaken they train the vets so they can be instructors back home.

as far as I know, that is the idea.
perdurabo
10-01-2006, 01:16 PM
Good to see these pictures but why there is no young pilots?

Anyway thx for posting
because that are instructors they will be teaching to fly f-16 back in home so we need best of the best not some young pistols but guys that have cold blood and enormous expirience.
wholagun
10-01-2006, 10:41 PM
where are the crazy new helmets that we got to go with our F16s.
DanteXavier
10-01-2006, 11:20 PM
Makes sense that the dudes are older. If I were the polish government, I wouldn't send some hot blooded and young 21 year olds over to take control of your newest most advanced multi million dollar piece of equipment.

How many F-16s is poland planning to acquire anyway?
Granit
10-02-2006, 12:33 AM
Poland is going to get 48 F-16 Block 52+
Bulabash
10-02-2006, 02:23 AM
Well that will be a big improvement for CAS after those Polish Sukhois we used to get here in Belgium during CAS exercises (allways good for a laugh though).
I suspect that their English will have improved too then, so much the better.
Switek
10-02-2006, 02:47 AM
evrything is ok, great... nice pix and so on.... but one thing is humiliatinig. Why Polish pilots are not allowed to wear Polish ranks and insygnia??? . US friends try to keep political corectness to avoid Polish jokes by banning Polisg flags on shoulders?
Hrvoje
10-02-2006, 02:51 AM
Nice pics! Anyone have pics from production?
Hellfish
10-02-2006, 02:53 AM
evrything is ok, great... nice pix and so on.... but one thing is humiliatinig. Why Polish pilots are not allowed to wear Polish ranks and insygnia??? . US friends try to keep political corectness to avoid Polish jokes by banning Polisg flags on shoulders?

Probably for ID on American bases. Often foreign personnel on US bases wear their national rank and American rank, so people know who they're talking to. I'd be willing to bet that somewhere on their uniform is their Polish rank - unless its a limitation of the US flight suits or something.