Very nice photos and video of two KC-130 Hercules aircraft firing flares in Iraq

As visually appealing as the smaller images are its worth looking at the originals. So I took a little extra time to make the photos link to the available fullsize images. So click away. But it gets better. Watch this video shot in Iraq of flares being fired by two USMC KC-130s:

www.archive.org...

How about that condensation from the wingtip vortices? IMHO, that is so cool.

Displayed pics from chamorrobible.org... where you'll find the photo credits, source of the original images, pointers to info on the wing tip vortices condensation effect, how to find the video.

Via weblog.physorg.com...


[edit on 27-1-2006 by DeepSecrets]

Nice pictures... I love the Russians who use flares in their air-shows... it's just spectacular...