Another Day At Work

[poker_jake]

First the Office:

We have an airshow tomorrow and Sunday so all the guys started flying in today.

More here: Flickr: Poker_Jake's Photostream


As always C&C welcome!

 

[jaguaraz]

Wow, some great warbirds! Nice captures too.

 

[SCraig]

I'm so jealous. The Phantom has long been my all-time favorite Vietnam-era jet, yet I've never seen one up close and personal (except at the boneyard at Davis-Monthan and that doesn't count).

The Mustang isn't the more common "D" model either. It's earlier but I'm not sure which variant it is.

Beautiful shots, excellent exposures. I wish I were there

 

[poker_jake]

I'm so jealous. The Phantom has long been my all-time favorite Vietnam-era jet, yet I've never seen one up close and personal (except at the boneyard at Davis-Monthan and that doesn't count).

The Mustang isn't the more common "D" model either. It's earlier but I'm not sure which variant it is.

Beautiful shots, excellent exposures. I wish I were there

Thanks, I believe it's the C model. My FLickr has a shot of the D model. The F-4 is an amazing plane so much power (louder then hell, impossible to listen to the radios during departure and low approaches) and probably the meanest looking fighter ever.

 

[SCraig]

Thanks, I believe it's the C model. My FLickr has a shot of the D model. The F-4 is an amazing plane so much power (louder then hell, impossible to listen to the radios during departure and low approaches) and probably the meanest looking fighter ever.

Agreed! The F-4 was put into service in 1958, and I was in the second grade. I saw an advertisement for the USAF in Boy's Life Magazine showing the "New" F-4 Phantom, and from that day on all I ever wanted to do was join the Air Force and fly one. Unfortunately when I was in a position to do so Vietnam was at its peak and my mother begged me not to. So, I never flew a Phantom but I did learn to fly several years later. Despite the Phantom's shortcomings it is still my favorite though.

A couple of shots of a model of an F-4E I built a few years ago showing just how mean they do look

 

[panblue]

The F4 still looks the business, doesn't it! Good shots, poker_jake, especially the Phantom
and 'the Harrier', (or whatever name it's known by, in the USA).

 

[poker_jake]

Thanks guys, hopefully get some more today during the show but it was nice yesterday not having a crowds of people around to fill the background of the shots.