Phantom delight - (explored)
With a billowing cloudscape behind, smart Turkish Air Force McDonnell-Douglas F-4E Phantom II
67-0210 basks in the sun at the 'Air Day' RNAS Yeovilton on the 15th July 2000.
Very few Phantoms still serve around the world now with Germany about to relinquish theirs in just a few months leaving Japan, Greece and Turkey amongst the last to fly them.
Big, brutish and with it's cranked wing-tips and severe anhedral tailplane, the Phantom was a radical design but it very soon proved itself in Vietnam where the USAF, US Navy and US Marine Corps utilised them heavily throughout the war there.
Several thousand were built and operated by amongst others: USA, UK, Germany, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Israel, Iran, Japan and South Korea.
Most have been retired and scrapped but many of the US examples ended their days as QF-4 Target Drones equipped as unmanned missile 'fodder'!
Scanned 35mm transparency with HDR tonemapping.
Good on black I think - just press the L key
Phantom delight - (explored)
With a billowing cloudscape behind, smart Turkish Air Force McDonnell-Douglas F-4E Phantom II
67-0210 basks in the sun at the 'Air Day' RNAS Yeovilton on the 15th July 2000.
Very few Phantoms still serve around the world now with Germany about to relinquish theirs in just a few months leaving Japan, Greece and Turkey amongst the last to fly them.
Big, brutish and with it's cranked wing-tips and severe anhedral tailplane, the Phantom was a radical design but it very soon proved itself in Vietnam where the USAF, US Navy and US Marine Corps utilised them heavily throughout the war there.
Several thousand were built and operated by amongst others: USA, UK, Germany, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Israel, Iran, Japan and South Korea.
Most have been retired and scrapped but many of the US examples ended their days as QF-4 Target Drones equipped as unmanned missile 'fodder'!
Scanned 35mm transparency with HDR tonemapping.
Good on black I think - just press the L key