Some 80's and 90's pix off Twenthe AB

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Hi,

Some 1994 shots made at Twenthe, the PD808 MM61952 was based here in June94 as ECM-participant in the Falcon Nut exercise.

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F-16B J-068 with 313sq tiger tail in better times, it crashed last year September at Volkel..

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F-16A J-253 was together with J-251 both from 313sq the KLu demo- F-16s for season 1994.

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Nice to see those old things!
Brings back some wonderful memories!!!!!!!!
By the way what was the RAF sqdr. from the rotation with F4s?
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Post by doubleugly »

As I can remember they were phrom the Phirebirds, no 56. squadron.
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Actually the Phantom FGR2's were from 23 Sqn. stationed at Wattisham at that time.
Nowadays they fley with the E3D Sentry from Waddington.
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They were from 74 'Tiger' Squadron (not 23 Sq)
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Jetzone 2000 wrote:They were from 74 'Tiger' Squadron (not 23 Sq)
No way. It was 23 Sqn. What you mean is a rotation (or an excersise) with 74 Sqn (Tigers !) in March 1991. Three Phantom FGR2's from 74 Sqn were present at the time and two from 228 OCU.
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Here are 2 air to air pix of mine during the rotation in 1988 with 315 Sqdn.

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And 1 at the Tiger Meet at Twenthe

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Nice shots guys!

Lovely thoose RAF Smokers, saw them a lot at Wildenrath. Unfortunately no good camera at that time...

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You want some smokers? I've got some.
On Tuesday the 7th of June 1983 a District of Columbia F4D made an emergencylanding on Twenthe. It was the 66-7693/DC with squadronleader markings of the 121TFS. It was accompanied by three more Phantoms. The 66-7561/DC, 66-7634/DC and the 66-7677/DC.
They were deployed to Finningley at the time. The 66-7693 got fixed and departed Twenthe on Friday the 10th on a spectacular way. A very low flypast over the flightline of 315 squadron. But before that the F4D's showed up every day at Twenthe. The 66-7634 and the 66-7677 on Wednesday. The 66-7531 (new one), 66-7561, 66-7634 and the 66-7612 on Tuersday.
One of the highlights in my "spottingcareer" for sure.
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Nice pics of the phantoms Michael :D
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Thanx.
It sure brings back memories.
Come to think about it, I made those pix with just a simple Nikon EM and an even more simple Panagor 135/2.8 lens.
Nowadays everybody has big lenses with big camera's. You couldn't afford those in the old days. Too expensive for a fourteen yeard old ! :wink:
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I was curious about the fate of the DC F4's. So I looked it up in the famous Scramble database.
The 66-7693 is nowadays preserved as "67478" at Fargo IAP. Fate of the 66-7561 is unknown. As is the 66-7677. They departed for Amarc and were never seen since. The 66-7634 is an instructional airframe at Saylor Creek. However it has not been seen since May 99. The fuselage of 66-7531 is a range target at Fort L. Wood. Last seen in March 2005. So it still could be there today.
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Did some dia scanning today, here some TWN results,
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Re: Some 80's and 90's pix off Twenthe AB

Post by camel1 »

Hi all,

To breathe some new live into this topic, I would like to show some pictures I made at Twenthe AB in the beginning of my 'spottingcarreer'.

There must be a lot of beautifull 70's, 80's and 90's pictures out there, so please join me and show and share your old Twnthe pix with us.

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Those where the days , wow wow wow!
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