Photo test - F-4 Phantom
Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:05 pm
This is just a test for me posting photos
Not the best quality, but it brings back some memories. Taken at Ft Drum NY while I was on a deployment with the 103 TASS out of Willow Grove NAS in 1985. I forget what unit they were from. This was not taken with a zoom lens, and I guessed the airspeed at the time to be pushing 500mph - it approached with that distinctive Phantom 'screech' that you hear only when they are coming at you with a bucket full of speed.
If this works it's off to spend some time with the scanner.
Most of my pics are on slides, and of what I would call average quality.
A few of them will be from deployments and show 'working' stuff from the mid-80's, the majority are from air shows of the same time frame.
Not the best quality, but it brings back some memories. Taken at Ft Drum NY while I was on a deployment with the 103 TASS out of Willow Grove NAS in 1985. I forget what unit they were from. This was not taken with a zoom lens, and I guessed the airspeed at the time to be pushing 500mph - it approached with that distinctive Phantom 'screech' that you hear only when they are coming at you with a bucket full of speed.
If this works it's off to spend some time with the scanner.
Most of my pics are on slides, and of what I would call average quality.
A few of them will be from deployments and show 'working' stuff from the mid-80's, the majority are from air shows of the same time frame.
Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:07 pm
OK - looks like I want to scale the size down a little....I'll be back
Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:20 pm
Second try - Again at Ft Drum, same deployment
I found this guy blocking the road I was on....
I found this guy blocking the road I was on....
Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:37 pm
If those are test shots, bring on the rest! That Phantom shot says it all, low, fast, and comin; towards you with bad intent. Nice balance of subject and speed at the bottom-
Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:51 pm
Continuing my test - multiple pics in one post
Here's an unusual shot - A head-on view taken from the ground.
We weren't subject to airshow rules and regulations, so we could ask
the pilots for a 'photo-op'. This OA-37B was at Warren Grove Range.
A Huey coming in to pick me up for a 'joy-ride'.....
A-7 'SLUF' from the Puerto Rico Air Guard visiting Willow Grove in '85
F-4 at Tico in '84
It looks like this type of post belongs in the photo's forum so that's where I'll be posting my stuff from now on.
Thanks for indulging me, and please give me comments. It's not WWII and not 'show/professional' quality but they are warbirds!
Here's an unusual shot - A head-on view taken from the ground.
We weren't subject to airshow rules and regulations, so we could ask
the pilots for a 'photo-op'. This OA-37B was at Warren Grove Range.
A Huey coming in to pick me up for a 'joy-ride'.....
A-7 'SLUF' from the Puerto Rico Air Guard visiting Willow Grove in '85
F-4 at Tico in '84
It looks like this type of post belongs in the photo's forum so that's where I'll be posting my stuff from now on.
Thanks for indulging me, and please give me comments. It's not WWII and not 'show/professional' quality but they are warbirds!