For our first post in a while, we bring you a way-cool pikshur showing a Lockheed F-94 Starfire lighting up in the barn at Thule Airbase, Greenland waaaay back in November of 1953.
The F-94 was the first operational jet in USAF service to be powered by an engine that had an afterburner, and was also the first USAF all-weather jet fighter to see combat. That former fact is very well illustrated in the photo, which was taken by George Silk for a little 'ole rag called LIFE Magazine.
Oh... the jet is an F-94B, serial number 51-5494 of the 318th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. The 318th was stationed at Thule for just over a year, from June 1953 to August 1954.
Enjoy, and light 'em if ya got 'em...
LIFE Photo Archives (George Silk photo)
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