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Who took the photo?
Are you planning on giving credit to the photographer or at least a link to the site it came from?

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The interesting thing about that bird is that it has an afterburner installed. Note the extension to the exhaust. The A-4 only carries 900 gallons internally , so he probably had a short flight!
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That's not an afterburner. The Israelis were among the first to be exposed to the SAM 7 Strella, a man portable anti aircraft missile. A-4s were particularly vulnerable to them so the Israelis extended the engine exhaust so that the SA-7 explosion was further away from the delicate bits.

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i love those hunch backed scooters!!

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A-4N, built new for Israel. Acquired by ATSI at Williams Gateway Airport, Phoenix, now leased by ATAC.

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This A-4 is used by BAE Flight Systems and currently based at Wittmund, Germany. There are some more A-4 featuring different colours. The pictures below are examples done by Rob Hendricks, see his following sites:
http://www.danger-zone.fotografeert.nl/ ... aid=275945
http://www.danger-zone.fotografeert.nl/ ... aid=275946

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Completely forgot that BAE had some in Europe. thanks for the reminder !

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just for grins........ any pics of senator mcain's scooter floating out their???

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