A Shrimp Boat no more?!
In March of 2006, a person named Steve reached out to me with the following story:
First I’ll tell you the story of how it was that aircraft 007 was chosen to perform at the airshow at Soesterberg (pronounced Soo-sterberg) AB in the Netherlands. Your aircraft was almost brand new to Bitburg AB. It had arrived from the McDonnell-Douglas factory in St. Louis and had minimal hours on the airframe (about 10) when one of the pilots took it on a cross-country mission to Scandinavia.
Read moreWhy yes, you CAN buy a missile launch rail…
Not exactly F-15 specific (F/A-18 actually…), but I figured the folks that follow my shenannigans would get a kick out of this. A year(ish) ago, I found a LAU-117/A launch rail for sale on Facebook, and before common sense could override the PayPal transaction, I’d bought the stupid thing.
Enjoy the video!
