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FILL 'ER UP -- A Hawaii Air National Guard F-4 Phantom snuggles
underneath a tanker for mid-air refueling, the pilot
carefully gauging the closure rate.

Light&Flight

PORTFOLIO

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Burl Burlingame
bburlingame@starbulletin.com

Star-Bulletin writer Burl Burlingame's background is in photo-journalism and aviation history -- here, he combines the two.

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ROTATION -- Lifting off into a stormy evening, a HANG
F-15 Eagle heads into an evening interception mission.

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OVER THE TOP -- A Hawaii Air National Guard F-15C Eagle
loops over the horizon, 20,000 feet above the Kailua-Kona coast.

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OUT TO PASTURE -- A relic P-51 Mustang, above,
awaits restoration in England.

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GLIDE PATH -- A hang glider takes off from the cliffs of
Makapuu, in search of an endurance gliding record.

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LAST FLIGHT OF OL' 55 -- The Coast Guard's aging helicopters
are taken for a last spin before retirement.

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