A Navy Tomcat from Fighter Squadron Two, The Bounty Hunters, cruises above a brilliant sunlit cloud deck. As the crew makes haste for their destination the subtle colors of the afterburner are visible against the oncoming night sky.
WIKI: The Luna (Russian: Луна; English: moon) is a Soviet short-range ballistic missile complex. Luna rockets are solid-fuel, unguided and spin-stabilized.
MIGHTY EIGHTH–RUSSIAN SHUTTLE by Gil Cohen. Don Blakeslee of the Fighter Group by his Mustang arrives in Russia having escorted Flying Fortresses across Europe from England on the first leg of the Russian Shuttle Mission.