Winter Wittmund Wonderland

[henkderidder]

On 26-01-10 Bert and I vistited Wittmund. When we arrived the sun was just above the horizon, it was freezing cold (-12), and the first wave of 8 Phantoms departed. That day 2 more waves of 8 Phantoms did fly. Also 5 missions with A-4 skyhawks were made and we had 3 visitors(2 only overshoots: a Tor and Tiffy) and one who came in to give a penalty:A Do 228 LM.
We had a great cold day with max tempeture; -6 , with beautiful light and nice company.
Enjoy the pics.

1 Early moring recovery:



2 Special edition:



3 Checking after a mission:



4 Coming back 1:



5 Coming back 2:



6 Overschoot:



7 Taking off:



8 Taxing :



9 Kouwe Klauwe (Cold hands):



10 What goes up :



11 Must come down:



12 Coming back:



13 The Scooter:



14 Alaska scenery!



15 The visitors:



16 What we'll see in the future:



17 3rd wave departing:



18 Lovely winterlight:


19 Returning:




20 Coming in:



21 Was this the reason:



21 They came?


Hope you like them. comments are welcome.

[ebauer]

On 26-01-10 Bert and I vistited Wittmund. When we arrived the sun was just above the horizon, it was freezing cold (-12).
We had a great cold day with max tempeture; -6 , with beautiful light and nice company.
Enjoy the pics.

Hope you like them. comments are welcome.

You must be Henk de Bibber afterwards!
Nevertheless an interesting and good looking report from a very cold WITtmund!

Thanks for sharing.

[warthog64]

You must be Henk de Bibber afterwards!



nice selection Henk!

like the smoking F-4, ooh well they all smoke....

[Pienie]

Very good pictures Henk, thanks for the company.

[Atlantic 61+20]

At first very nice Pictures .The Do 228 came from a Pollution Control Mission and must fly to ETNT to carry a person to ETNN. I think the Pilots were

Regards Atlantic 61+20


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[Maurice]

Very nice report Henk, despite the low temperatures!

(2 only overshoots: a Tor and Tiffy).

However, I have to correct you on this one! The Germans donot say Tiffy but Eufy

Cheers, Maurice.

[Key]

7 Taking off:

Lovely winterlight

YeZ!

Erik

[Thermal]

Marvelous shots. Especially of the smoker taking off.

Spoke to some German fighterpilots who are in basic pilottraining here at the Lufthansa school in Phoenix (before they go to Texas to fly jets). Funny how none of them wanted to fly Eurofighters. They all want to fly the mighty Phantom!!!

[ebauer]

Spoke to some German fighterpilots who are in basic pilottraining here at the Lufthansa school in Phoenix (before they go to Texas to fly jets). Funny how none of them wanted to fly Eurofighters. They all want to fly the mighty Phantom!!!

That doesn't surprise me at all, you know: from double ugly to real ugly!

[Alpha Kilo One]

fly the mighty Phantom

It is all about character !

[CR-74050]

Hi Henk, nice pics from der heimat! Especially the ' upside down ' Phantom ist wunderbar. With how many mm's did you shoot these pics?

Thanks for sharing, Dick

[henkderidder]

Thanks for all the positive feedback, shots were made with a 70-200mm lens wih a 1.7 convertor for pics :2-3-8-9-14 and 21. To make the pics on the runway you need when the F-4 is in front of you about 135 mm. with a SLR body (I used a D-300)

[Stephan Lodewijks]

Oooh-la-laaa...that's a set of very fine pictures!!

[CR-74050]

Thanks, Henk, for sharing your information about the mm's. Looks like I have to go there too!

Dick