A flight engineer, 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, makes a preflight check on aircraft's instrument panel during exercise Purple Duck, a deployment from Yokota Air Base, Japan, to Kwang Ju Air Base, Korea, for joint operation readiness maneuvers with Korean troopers

Similar

STS-91 Mission Specialist Valery Ryumin, a cosmonaut with the Russian Space Agency, arrives at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility aboard a T-38 jet as part of final preparations for launch. STS-91 is scheduled to be launched on June 2 on Space Shuttle Discovery with a launch window opening around 6:10 p.m. EDT. The mission will feature the ninth Shuttle docking with the Russian Space Station Mir, the first Mir docking for Discovery, the conclusion of Phase I of the joint U.S.-Russian International Space Station Program, and the first flight of the new Space Shuttle super lightweight external tank. The STS-91 flight crew also includes Commander Charles Precourt; Pilot Dominic Gorie; and Mission Specialists Wendy B. Lawrence; Franklin Chang-Diaz, Ph.D.; and Janet Kavandi, Ph.D. Andrew Thomas, Ph.D., will be returning to Earth with the crew after living more than four months aboard Mir KSC-98pc664

Professional tennis player Lauren Davis, tours a C-17A

Teaser photo., Colorado Springs

A view of the crew inside the cockpit of a P-3C Orion aircraft of Patrol Squadron 8 (VP-8) during UNITAS XXV, the silver anniversary hemispheric naval exercise involving Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela

Ronald Sinclair in They Made Me a Criminal

Capt. Austin Foster and 1st Lt. Nicholas Carroll, 76th

A flight engineer, 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, makes a preflight check on aircraft's instrument panel during exercise Purple Duck, a deployment from Yokota Air Base, Japan, to Kwang Ju Air Base, Korea, for joint operation readiness maneuvers with Korean troopers

description

Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: PURPLE DUCK

Base: Kwang Ju Air Base

Country: Korea

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Mike Daniels

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

date_range

Date

14/09/1980

place

Location

35.74284, 139.33842

Google Map of 35.7428351, 139.3384216

create

Source

The U.S. National Archives

link

Link

https://catalog.archives.gov/

copyright

Copyright info

No known copyright restrictions