day at the fence Wittmund, Germany 25/05/2010

This day I went with my buddy H de R., to the F-4 'phantom' base in germany.

There were rumours that the base should close down, next september.
But we spoke to a German spotter, and he tolt us, that there was only a building construction stop.

The authorities are planning to make the base Eurofighter ready.

Anyway on with the show!

nice splitterplate art,

lots of noise during take-off

last of the smokers

burning rubber

Target-tow A-4 Scooter

we saw 3 'scrambles' that day

nice visitor from 'flight test'

still is one of the best looking planes around.

this one is located near wittmund town,

oh and that's me....sorry for that!

photo by H. de R.

Frisian flag 2010@ leeuwarden

Finally after a long winter stop, there was a nice aviation exercise at Leeuwarden airbase.
@ 14/4 and 15/4, I was on base, for the Frisian Flag exercise,
There were Dutch, U.S., finnish, German, Tjech, Polish, and some fighters from Norway at the base
for the exercise.
unfortunately I did not see the German F-4's fly, because they had some ejection seat problems,
All the F-4's from the Luftwaffe were grounded  for the next couple of day's

on top of it all, the iclandic vulcano sent it's ashes toward Europe, so that all flying activities stopped the afternoon of 15/04,The mission was cancelled during takeoff, I was lucky enough to see 80% fly, and the rest taxi in front of me!

below some stuff that I saw that day....

noisy stuff...

Polorizer used, great effect on colors

Nice splitter plate art!