[Pete]

Scott has posted in this GB's proposal thread a lot of wonderful pics he took while he served in the AF at Ramstein. I thought it would be coll to post them here too, so they won't get buried in the General Discussion forum. Scott kindly agreed, so here they are.

I will start with his selection of Ramstein F-4E's:









"Not the clearest photo, but the only one I took of a Zulu F-4E with AIM-7F Sparrows. Note the Sparrow is gray"

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More Ramstein F-4E's:

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And more:

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Moving on to Spangdahlem F-4E's and F-4G's:

"I took this first photo of 69-0280 on May 18, 1984 at Zaragoza AB, Spain. This Weasel crashed a few days later, on May 23 on the Bardenas Real bombing range. The crew got out okay."












"This F-4G had 34092 dark green in place of the usual 34079, which is pretty darned rare:"

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More Spangdahlem F-4E's and G's

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And more:

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And more:

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Next up, Zweibrücken RF-4c's:

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Alconbury RF-4C's:







And a couple of Torrejon F-4D's:

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Niiiiiiiice!

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Moving on to F-16's. We'll start with Ramstein again:



"Candyass", aka "Peppermnint Patty" (this specific one has been converted to a QF-16 by now)

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Moving on to F-16's from Hahn:



"Stabilators on the F-16 are interchangeable from side to side. Note the left stab is upside down so far as the color scheme"

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And now some F-16's from Torrejon:

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Moving on to F-15's. Starting with Bitburg:











"This F-15 had a midair with a German owned Beech Baron. The F-15 was on Zulu Alert, and was scrambled to intercept the Baron when the Beech got too close to the East German border. The weather was instrument conditions, and when the F-15 tried to get close enough to the Baron to get a positive ID and to warn the Baron pilot to turn around, the F-15 accidentally hit the Baron. Both aircraft made successful landings and amazingly no one was hurt. The F-15 recovered at Ramstein and sat in our maintenance hangar for almost a year before the depot was able to send a team to repair it. I took this photo after the jet was pulled out of the 526 TFS hangar and was about to be moved to the phase inspection hangar where they did the repairs. "

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More Bitburg Eagles:

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Moving on to Soesterberg F-15's:

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Next up are a pair of F-111F's from Lakenheath:





A couple of A-10's from Bentwaters/Woodbridge





Two C-130's from Rhein-Main:

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Alconbury aggressor F-5E's:















"This one was taken with my camera by a WSO in the 526 TFS at Decimommanu EOR. I asked him to take my camera up to shoot some air-to-air for me. Unfortunately he wasn't able to get any useable photos while airborne, but he did get this nice shot"

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And finally the last batch. Enjoy these pics!

This post has been edited by Pete: 08 December 2011 - 12:44 AM

[Scott R Wilson]

Pete, on 08 December 2011 - 12:03 AM, said:

"This F-15 had a midair with a German owned Beech Baron. The F-15 was on Zulu Alert, and was scrambled to intercept the Baron when the Beech got too close to the East German border. The weather was instrument conditions, and when the F-15 tried to get close enough to the Baron to get a positive ID and to warn the Baron pilot to turn around, the F-15 accidentally hit the Baron. Both aircraft made successful landings and amazingly no one was hurt. The F-15 recovered at Ramstein and sat in our maintenance hangar for almost a year before the depot was able to send a team to repair it. I took this photo after the jet was pulled out of the 526 TFS hangar and was about to be moved to the phase inspection hangar where they did the repairs. "

Here's some more shots I took of this airplane.

Note the damage under the radome:


Damage to the intake area:


Note the scraped paint inside the vertical fin:



I took some other photos while I was walking around on top of this aircraft:

This post has been edited by Scott R Wilson: 08 December 2011 - 11:32 PM