[MilCom] F-21's Departing Amarillo

[Steve Douglass]

Interesting sighting today.

Coming home  ( close to 7:00 PM CDT) I heard a loud noise that 
sounded like two high-performance jets approaching. I've done so much 
plain sighting that I can usually identify an aircraft just from it's 
engine noise, but not this pair. engine pitch sounded somewhat higher 
than the F-16s, B-1Bs and F-15s that are common in the pattern. 
While I was stopped at a traffic light I caught site of them as they 
flew directly overhead, at about two thousand feet. I was surprised 
to see I could not readily identify them. From their plan forms they 
looked sort of like F-106 Delta Darts, with a standard delta wing and 
a single vertical tail. I rushed home and leafed through my Janes and 
identified them as F21 Kafir. Unfortunately I did not have my scanner 
with me so I didn't hear a callsign.

Wanting to make sure i had identified them correctly, I called the 
local FSS (Tac-Air) and the woman at the desk said they had indeed 
two F-21 Kafirs stop for a quick turn but they were not Israeli. They 
said they bore U.S. Navy markings (she thinks NAS Oceana) and they 
were enroute to Nellis.

Does anyone on this list know if Oceana is now flying F-21s?

-Steve Douglass
-- 
"There is no sin in getting knocked down. The real sin is in not 
getting back up."