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A right rear view of the underside of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft on display during the open house Expo '83. The aircraft is armed with Mark 82 500-pound general purpose bombs, suspended from the PAVE Knife pods, and an AIM-7 Sparrow III air-to-air missile

An air-to-air left side view of a Strike Fighter Squadron 136 (VFA-136) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft over the Persian Gulf. The Hornet is armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles while a Sidewinder on the wing of another Hornet is in the foreground

A close-up view of four Mark 82 500-pound general purpose bombs suspended from the PAVE Knife pods of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. The aircraft is on display during the open house Expo '83

An air-to-air top left view of an F-16XL prototype and the F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft during the Farnborough Air Show. The aircraft are armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles. The F-16XL is also armed with AIM-7 Sparrow missiles on its undercarriage

An air-to-air right side view of an F-16XL Fighting Falcon prototype aircraft as it undergoes refueling operations while on a demonstration flight during the Farnborough Air Show. The aircraft is armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles on the wing tips and AIM-7 Sparrow missiles on the undercarriage

An air-to-air left side view of the F-16XL Fighting Falcon prototype aircraft as it undergoes refueling operations while on a demonstration flight during the Farnborough Air Show. The aircraft is armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles on the wing tips and AIM-7 Sparrow missiles on the undercarriage

An air-to-air right underside view of the F-16XL Fighting Falcon prototype aircraft dropping several bombs while on a demonstration flight during the Farnborough Air Show. The aircraft is also armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles on the wing tips and AIM-7 Sparrow missiles on the undercarriage

A close-up view of four Mark 82 500-pound general purpose bombs suspended from the PAVE Knife pods of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. The F/A-18 is on open display during the open house Expo '83

A left side view of an F-15 Eagle aircraft as it takes off. The aircraft is assigned to the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing and is armed with an AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile on the wing pylon

A left rear view of the undercarriage of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft armed with Mark 82 500-pound general purpose bombs, suspended from PAVE Knife pods, an AIM-7 Sparrow III air-to-air missile and an AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile on the wingtip. The Hornet is on display during the open house Expo `83

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Base: Naval Air Station Patuxent River

State: Maryland (MD)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, Usn (Ret.)

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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20/08/1983
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label_outline Explore Sparrow Iii, House Expo, Purpose Bombs

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A underside view of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4)

Flight deck crew members and ordnance crew members use an HLU-196 bomb hoist to load an AIM-7 Sparrow missile onto the pylon of an EA-6B Prowler aircraft on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72)

STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Vincent Scott and AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Vamal Taylor, weapons loaders from the 522nd Fighter Squadron (FS), Cannon Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico, load a Mark 82, 500-pound bomb onto an F-16 Falcon fighter at Eielson AFB, Alaska, in support of exercise Northern Edge 2002

Aviation ordnancemen load Mark 82 500-pound retarded delivery bombs onto the wing pylon of an A-6E Intruder aircraft aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

U.S. Navy test pilot Lt. Christopher Tabert pilots

An air-to-air right side view of four F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Fighter Attack Squadron 125 (VFA-125). The squadron is on a 23-day deployment from Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California. VFA-125 began flying the F/A-18 aircraft about 12 months ago. Squadron pilots have accumulated more than 1,500 hours in the aircraft so far

An air-to-air right side view of an F-4E Phantom II aircraft of the 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron releasing Mark 82 500-pound bombs over the Bardenas Bombing Range. Note: Second view in a series of three

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A left side view of a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft refueling an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft in flight as another Falcon awaits its turn. The Falcons, from the 10th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 50th Tactical Fighter Wing, are carrying AN/ALQ-131 pods and missile dispensers

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undercarriage hornet aircraft hornet aircraft mark purpose bombs purpose bombs knife pods knife pods aim sparrow sparrow iii missile sidewinder wingtip display house expo house expo naval air station maryland rear view aim 7 sparrow air to air missile aim 9 sidewinder fa 18 hornet f a 18 hornet naval air station patuxent river mark 82 bombs fighter jet aircraft f 18 high resolution a 18 hornet aircraft aim 7 sparrow iii air to air view military aircraft public domain aircraft photos us national archives