I thought I never saw an F-4 flying before so I went to Belgium to see the Greek F-4 demo last year. Then I found that I did see the F-4 flying here in the US in 2012, maybe once or twice before that. I just didn't remember.
Here are few shots taken in 2012, with my Canon 7D. Perhaps at Andrews AFB. To my everlasting regret, I have never seen an F-14 in air. Hopefully some organization will restore the F-14 gifted by the DoW with the purpose of making it air worthy again.
Ah the F4 brother!!
My CAS, Close Air Support, in Vietnam......Most of my F4-CAS came from Udorn RTAB......Beautiful Douglas!
Dan
Was this a "military" F4? Flown by the military? OK I see the Greek AF
Get to Pax River NAS..they have 2 that fly in shows....not sure when they do fly but a childhood friend was a F4 "driver" during 2 tours in Vietnam.
F14's were sold to Iran...
JB Andrews had some years ago Douglas....call the base Media and see if you can get over there.
Dan
Colonel Ron Cooper(Ret) flew with Robin Olds and Steve Ritchie in Vietnam
Hello from the great state of Montana! - the Yellowstone International Airshow in Billings. Got access to the ramp on both Thursday and Friday for the Blues practice. Today outside the fence and tomorrow inside. It looks like the F-35 demo isn't happening and there were "problems" with several of the Blue's jets yesterday. Hoping for the best...
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Jeff
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Good luck Jeff! We had constant problems with Blues availability at Alliance, I can count the number of times they all flew on one hand.
Thanks Jim. Today, they all went up but it was, to me, a little off. There was a break for an inbound medivac bird, then one of the solos orbited high for awhile, and maybe a TFR intruder. Looking for a great show tomorrow.
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Jeff
Looking forward to seeing your images from the weekend! People ask why we keep going back to shoot the same subjects, you just answered that question, every performance is different. Rarely does the whole team fly, fly well, with everyone’s smoke working perfectly. We keep going back to capture that moment when it all comes together.
Well, I didn't go to DC today for the Indy race because there was not access to see it without ticket. It turned out they had several fantastic flyovers, B-1, B-2, B-52 in one formation, B-2 and 6 F-22s or F-35s in another formation, chopper formation too. They may have other flyovers but that's all I saw on social media. I should have gone for the flyovers.
Douglas L wrote:
Well, I didn't go to DC today for the Indy race because there was not access to see it without ticket. It turned out they had several fantastic flyovers, B-1, B-2, B-52 in one formation, B-2 and 6 F-22s or F-35s in another formation, chopper formation too. They may have other flyovers but that's all I saw on social media. I should have gone for the flyovers.
That is some firepower I do not understand why they do not allow folks to bring big teles unless you have a creds
Missed the evening F22- demo at London Airshow due to family compulsions. I had the gold pass for Saturday but weather gods had other plans. By the time it was time for raptor to take air, weather went bad. They were ok with slight drizzle but lightning they did not want to take chances. F-16 and hornet did perform. Kids loved the Mig-18 passthroughs with its tail on fire. They do fly very close to the tarmac. Will post some images later.
Blues started with 6 jets today, but had to swap out #4 early. Amazingly, #7 was up pretty quick and rejoined the diamond. Only one other delay was because of a medivac helo landing on a nearby hospital. The show finished with wind, rain, lightning and thunder moments after. Exciting day in MT!
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Jeff
cs3is wrote:
That is some firepower I do not understand why they do not allow folks to bring big teles unless you have a creds
Missed the evening F22- demo at London Airshow due to family compulsions. I had the gold pass for Saturday but weather gods had other plans. By the time it was time for raptor to take air, weather went bad. They were ok with slight drizzle but lightning they did not want to take chances. F-16 and hornet did perform. Kids loved the Mig-18 passthroughs with its tail on fire. They do fly very close to the tarmac. Will post some images later.
Even if I had had ticket to attend the auto race in DC today, I don't think it wouldn't have been possible to get good shots for spectators, there were two layers metal fences around the track. Apparently the flyover was a lot more than what I saw on social media. I should have gone to a location where I could get some shots of the flyover.
Here are few from the last weekend at London Airshow. F22- demo team performed on Sunday under overcast conditions. CIAS Toronto is next week but only f-16 team and hornets there.
Has anyone else tried logging in to FM in the last couple of days and been unable to log in using their original password?
To be clear I used a simple password for FM (old nickname), and I had to create a more secure password using upper- & lower-case letters, a symbol(s) and number(s).
Just curious if this affected everyone, or just those of us using simple uncomplicated passwords.
kwbarnes wrote:
Has anyone else tried logging in to FM in the last couple of days and been unable to log in using their original password?
To be clear I used a simple password for FM (old nickname), and I had to create a more secure password using upper- & lower-case letters, a symbol(s) and number(s).
Just curious if this affected everyone, or just those of us using simple uncomplicated passwords.
The whole FM website was not accessible for a while few days ago. I have had no trouble logging in through.
cs3is wrote:
Here are few from the last weekend at London Airshow. F22- demo team performed on Sunday under overcast conditions. CIAS Toronto is next week but only f-16 team and hornets there.
. Perhaps at Andrews AFB. To my everlasting regret, I have never seen an F-14 in air. Hopefully some organization will restore the F-14 gifted by the DoW with the purpose of making it air worthy again.
I do not understand why they do not allow folks to bring big teles unless you have a creds 
