The yearly Hurricane of North America came a little late for us Texan in 2024. Hurricane Francine came 9-12-2024 and NAS New Orleans have an evacuation order where Fighters and Military aircraft fly off to safer bases to avoid damages to their hardware. 159th Fighter Wing (FW), 122nd Fighter Squadron ( FS) Bayou Militia of the Louisiana Air National Guard sent out 9 ship F-15 flew over to NAS Ft worth KNFW . One of the jet numbered 036 have the racoon on the back and it symbolized the initial mascot for this squadron also known as the ” Conass Militia” back in the days when being politically correctness is not as issue.
1st Flight of 3 callsign Voodoo lead by the triple MIG killer Wing King jet.
2nd flight of 4 came in and this flight of 4 did a tac initial and than 1 of the jet numbered 166 gave us a low approach before all landed at runway 18
Short video of the 2 flights of F-15C from the Bayou. The last 2 jet came in way late so we did not catch them coming in.
Article by Dave Chng