I just wsh I could have photographed the QF-4E drones they painted in nam colors in some of those warbird formations. I guess they can't afford to fly them any more. Note the avionics fairing on the spine of the fuselage showing it to be a QF-4 drone. I hope it got put on display rather than used as a target.
I remember so well during the early 70s the rather common flyover of F-4s, usually Es. We were far from a base that had them, but the military had more than one fighter that they let all the pilots take turns flying, unlike now.
They would fly so blasted low. I was on my trail bike one day in 72, and one flew directly over me at less than 200 feet. Another E circled directly over my head at not much higher, looking at the Piper J-3 and cessna 140 in our front yard at the small airstrip I lived at; they circled several times, and I was totally thrilled when I saw the RIO actually wave back at me. I had record scramble time when I'd hear the rush of jets as they flew low over head, more than 2/3 the time they were F-4s. I really miss those things. I actually got to sit in teh cockpit of one at Dobbins AFB at an airshow around 74. That was heaven.
The one in the pic has the TESEO long range camera in the wingroot to.
A great shot.
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