F/A 18E Super Hornet

I'm rather busy with my second child right now, so, just to keep the blog alive, I'll keep posting photos of older models.

Today : a Super Hornet armed to the teeth. Such a manly symbol!

Errrh -nope. Look at the pilot's name:

This is a woman's plane. Not only Cmdr Sara Joyner  was among the very first female fighter pilots, but she became the US Navy' first female squadron leader, and was then promoted in 2010 to head a whole Carrier Air Wing.

And don't get me wrong, my interest for Cmdr Joyner is not one for a hot-chick-piloting-a-deadly-machine, it is one for a fine and highly professional person, who has achieved something that was more or less unthinkable when she was a kid.
As such, I hope Joyner will be an inspiring exemple for my daughter, whichever career (or carrier?) she will embrace.

In the narrow field of women fighter pilots, and as a Frenchman, I naturally also thought of Caroline Aigle, but her destiny is way too sad to be told to a child. Even in her death did she achieved something unreachable to a man.

Caroline Aigle 1974-2007

Interlude

'Grabbed these on an internet sale last year for a fraction of their retail price.
As a result the ensuing assembly was totally unstressful, and was thus an agreeable breeze.
The result is not perfect, but still presentable.

Stug III Ausf G:

ISU 122 (Berlin 1945):

Details

Summer has come upon Toulouse, with its intense sun which makes for good photos.
This was the perfect excuse to take the Canon and models out for a late afternoon photo shoot on the balcony.

Finished!

Just a very long weekend, and I was able to finish off the beast.
It was hard time, since we're expecting the birth to happen anytime soon, closely followed by a new house with lots of works to be done. The weeks to come are going to be rather interesting.