CB1100 posing with F-4 Phantom

[the Ferret]

Slol. My reference was to the similarities between riding your CB1100 and flying in a plane.

The one on the ground doesn't look so good.

[R748_imp]

Nice shots. I appreciate the mix of aviation and biking.

Also kind of them to park their birds next to your bike

[jimgl3_imp]

I grew up in LOVE with F4J Phantom II's!

[Elipten_imp]

The HD of airplanes! Thundering smoking hog!


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[Banned_imp]

Beautiful. Two of my favorites. My best friend flew back seat in F4s for both the Marines and Air National Guard. I also recall being at the London Ontario airshow in '98 when the theme was "30 Years of Phantoms". He flew in that display. Many countries that used them sent planes.

Hey, I was at the London airshow that year, I spent 1998 with the Canadian Forces Parachute Team (Skyhawks) and performed there.

I remember it being fairly crowded, and it seems to me that there were quite a few flybys by F4s - I am a big fan.

[ClassicVW_imp]

Beautiful. Two of my favorites. My best friend flew back seat in F4s for both the Marines and Air National Guard. I also recall being at the London Ontario airshow in '98 when the theme was "30 Years of Phantoms". He flew in that display. Many countries that used them sent planes.

Hey, I was at the London airshow that year, I spent 1998 with the Canadian Forces Parachute Team (Skyhawks) and performed there.

I remember it being fairly crowded, and it seems to me that there were quite a few flybys by F4s - I am a big fan.

Hey, I was at the London airshow that year, I spent 1998 with the Canadian Forces Parachute Team (Skyhawks) and performed there.

I remember it being fairly crowded, and it seems to me that there were quite a few flybys by F4s - I am a big fan.
I think I mistyped. 30 years of Phantoms would have been in '88. I went during late 80's to early 90's airshows there. Sometimes we drove up from NJ, sometimes flew commercial, and sometimes flew ourselves in a Piper. My buddy flew one of the F4s up from NJ Air Guard and was in the show and display. I'll never forget the wonderful hospitality of the CAF guys, both active and retired. Much complimentary alcohol after all the flying was done. I swear they all had hollow legs, they could put away the booze like champions. I was never so drunk in my life. (I wasn't driving nor flying)

[Banned_imp]

Well, there was at least one F4 there in '98 (there usually was at all air shows). My favourite will always be the A-10, watching a Warthog unload its ordinance is an awe inspiring sight.

Yes, air show after parties are legendary. Back in my time they were called "survival parties" as in thank God we survived another one.

[ClassicVW_imp]

Yeah W/R, the Phantom did last a long time in service with other countries.
That same buddy of mine ran the bombing/strafing range in southern NJ for a few years. It's little known outside of the military. I saw units fly there from Maine, Ohio, Virginia etc to bomb and the pilots get graded on accuracy. It's laid out like a Soviet era air base. "Runways" are made with bulldozers, and scattered around are captured Soviet tanks, Anti-aircraft weapons and other goodies that are used as targets. Practice bombs are used so there's not any destruction of the targets. A couple of times I was allowed to hang out there and take photos. Two things stand out to me even to this day- The A-10s firing their cannon from right over my head into the target pits, and the crazy as all get-out USMC Phantom pilots making their final 'ordnance check' pass at the wooden control tower at high speed and about 50 feet from me. They shook the tower and I was standing on the outside walkway and I had to hook my arm over the outside railing to keep from being shaken or blown off.

[Banned_imp]

Yeah W/R, the Phantom did last a long time in service with other countries.
That same buddy of mine ran the bombing/strafing range in southern NJ for a few years. It's little known outside of the military. I saw units fly there from Maine, Ohio, Virginia etc to bomb and the pilots get graded on accuracy. It's laid out like a Soviet era air base. "Runways" are made with bulldozers, and scattered around are captured Soviet tanks, Anti-aircraft weapons and other goodies that are used as targets. Practice bombs are used so there's not any destruction of the targets. A couple of times I was allowed to hang out there and take photos. Two things stand out to me even to this day- The A-10s firing their cannon from right over my head into the target pits, and the crazy as all get-out USMC Phantom pilots making their final 'ordnance check' pass at the wooden control tower at high speed and about 50 feet from me. They shook the tower and I was standing on the outside walkway and I had to hook my arm over the outside railing to keep from being shaken or blown off.

Did you ever get a chance to go up in an F4?

[ClassicVW_imp]

Nope. I wish, but I never thought of asking. I was treated very well by a couple of airbase commanders, but it was the time of run-up to and then the actual first Gulf War, and so everyone was on edge and probably the wrong time to ask something like that.