Adriatic, 1993.
Flying out of Italy during Op Deny Flight, we regularly flew thru some very big clouds en-route to Bosnia. The thunderstorms in the Adriatic can be real doozies (if that's how you spell it?).
One memorable night-time sortie I watched St Elmos Fire creep down the nose cone twds the cockpit and also down the inboard pylons and along the 'winder (!!!!). There was some in-cockpit discussion about the effects of said electrical phenomenon on the performance of the AIM 9L IR missile, but we came to no real conclusion and carried on anyway!
ps. I'm not sure if anyone else has said this, but even tho it was somewhat uncomfortable, it was also eerily beautiful. Like an electrical version of watching ice form and grow.
Last edited by threepointonefour; 18th February 2007 at 23:14.