Five a day - Part 4

[haveblue]

My personal favourite, nothing quite compares in my humble opinion, but I'm sure others will have their particular favourites too. Very frequent and welcome visitors in their heyday, German Air Force, German Navy, Dutch and Belgian in particular. A few examples here from the then West German Navy. No sound file attached I'm afraid.

F104G X3 WGN - RAF Lossiemouth early 1980s by Alan M, on Flickr

F104G WGN MFG2 Ser 26+85 RAF Lossiemouth late 1970s by Alan M, on Flickr

F104G WGN MFG2 Ser 21+26 - RAF Lossiemouth early 1980s by Alan M, on Flickr

F104G WGN MFG2 Ser 21+25 - RAF Lossiemouth late 1970s by Alan M, on Flickr

F104G WGN - RAF Lossiemouth - mid 1970s by Alan M, on Flickr

More to follow on Monday. Have a nice weekend everyone.

[TimFoo]

Best one yet!!! Keep 'em coming.....

[Knife 04]

Brilliant

[daggerfan]

Great shots Alan. I can hear the wail just looking at them. A sadly missed sight and sound!

[Rob666]

Alan some great shots on your previous posts, but these are my personal fav.
Cheers
Rob

[Dave934]

Flipping brilliant ! Thanks for posting, best one yet.
Dave.

[Nighthawke]

What a great set of Hooters!

[matt e]

Great set especially #3 and 5

[Punkrunner62]

Outstanding Alan, can hear the howl from here, just brilliant.
Cheers.

[Stug298]

Top drawer set of pics....."G....G for Germany".....

[Mike]

Another wonderful set of shots Alan, thank you so much for sharing them.

We did a trip around the Netherlands, Belgium, West Germany & France in 1978 and spent a couple of hours at Volkel on day 1. The afternoon launch consisted of 16 F-104s and they seemed to be having a competition on who could do the lowest approach on their return, I think that the last pair to land had to apply extra power to climb over the cows in the field before they went over the low wooden boundary fence. The cows weren't bothered, they just kept on munching grass!

I think that we logged about 80 Starfighters on that trip, happy days.

[fisherman]

Another brilliant set, I cannot get over how clean and fresh 21+55 looks a bit like those white top Nimrods.

[binbrook87]

Hooters!!! Enough said

[paddyboy]

Hi Alan

Simply awesome

No airshow was complete, back in the 80’s, without The Vikings, imho

Siggi, Axel and Bennu always put in a fab performance

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

[Thunder]

That’s an aircraft, even the name “Starfighter” just sounds right. Can’t recall seeing Dutch, Norwegian, Danish or Belgian ones, but I’m too young(49), to remember.

[raptor9]

Lovely!. As the Joni Mitchell song goes 'you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone'.

[Jabba]

Those were indeed "the days". Great memories.

[Mustang531]

Thanks for sharing these, as per previous comments, Starfighters were always a highlight of any show and remain an iconic aircraft to this day. I consider myself lucky to have seen so many over the years, but never saw a Greek one. I believe the only one on show in the UK is the Danish one at the Midland Aircraft Museum at Baginton (that's Coventry Airport for those who don't know where that is), but not sure what happened to the German ones that were here several years ago.

[roughcutter]

Hooters the epitome of the NATO Air Days, greatly missed. Does anyone ever remember "The Slivers?"

[Seahawk 11]

Wow, just awesome, love the Starfighter, I remember them well at airshows and on exercises,

Rob