One of Air USA's L-59 Super Albatross aircraft prepares to taxi out for a mission to the Yakima Training Center to assist US Army JTAC troops readying for deployment.
Matsushima was a very nice place to photograph the Mitsubishi F-2B trainer aircraft. Unfortunately the airfield was devastated by the Tsunami on 03/11/2011 and still suffers from the consequences of the nucelar disaster that happend afterwards.