01-31-98 From: Mark Farmer After making a real pain of myself and as a finishing flourish to my over-gestated “Nellis: Story of a Superbase/Jewels of the Nellis Range” features for Jane’s Defense Weekly, my big, bald self penetrated deeply into the Range Complex to completely survey and photograph all installations and observe Red Flag operations… in the backseat of a USAF F-16D! With Col. T-Bone Rake, Commanding Officer of the 414th CTS “Aggressors” (probably the best fighter pilots in the world and the only ones to wear the Red Star, Hammer and Sickle), at the stick, we blasted off to the north of Nellis along the western side of the Range (call sign MiG-5). A group of French Mirage 2000Ns were supposed to join […] Read More