Two shots of QF-4E 68-0345, the first when it was at Mojave in 1993, ex Missouri ANG under test and the second at Tyndall in service in 1996. It was shot down in the Gulf of Mexico in July 98.
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That looks like it came straight of the St. Louis flight line to go through conversion at Mojave? Single piece windshield too.
I thought it might have as well but it went to AMARC in Sept 91 so 2 years before. Looks like it never went into deep storage though.
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March AFB in Oct 89, on my first solo trip to the US I called into the base museum which used to occupy a section of the flightline so you could easily access the base, I drummed up the courage to walk into the 196th TFS building and ask if I could go out and shoot their F-4s, life was so much less complicated back then.
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The pair of SEA camo 20th FS F-4Es at the Golden Air Tattoo at Nellis in 1997. Flown by Vietnam aces Steve Richie and Chuck DeBellevue.
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Oooh. Sweet. They look weird though, without fuel tanks under their wings or center line.
It’s how you want it for a flying display though! 337 was nicely kitted out for the static.
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True. So where are the shots of the flying display? 
It’s flying in one of the shots! Limited flying shots to conserve film!
Ha! Forgot about that. Really good scans make you forget these are slides from precious 36 exposure rolls.
Yeah, I had a lot of trip left to do, plus we take long lens photography for granted now with digital, when 300mm was 300mm with film and no cropping, and Nellis is backlit most of the day!
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Yep, that’ll do! Superb, when jets were jets!
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Agreed Kev. You can beat Cold War era jets.
Darren
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