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My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

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My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Keflavik69 » Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:38 am

On the 30th of July 1968 I moved to RAF Woodbridge. This base was shared by the 20TFW at Wethersfield and the 81TFW at Bentwaters. So it produced the Phantom, in the higher serial range compared with the Bentwaters based aircraft, and Super Sabres. Unfortunately no visitors were seen during my spell in the approach of Woodbridge.

ImageWoodbridge 30 July 1968. F-4C 64-0903, 64-0908 81TFW by arnold booy, on Flickr

ImageWoodbridge 30 July 1968. F-4C 64-0915 81TFW by arnold booy, on Flickr

ImageWoodbridge 30 July 1968. F-4C 64-0918 81TFW by arnold booy, on Flickr

ImageWoodbridge 30 July 1968. F-100D 56-56-2970, 56-2997 20TFW by arnold booy, on Flickr

ImageWoodbridge 30 July 1968. F-100D 56-2967 20TFW by arnold booy, on Flickr

ImageWoodbridge 30 July 1968. F-100D 56-2999 20TFW by arnold booy, on Flickr

ImageWoodbridge 30 July 1968. F-100D 56-3004, 56-3008 20TFW by arnold booy, on Flickr

ImageWoodbridge 30 July 1968. F-100D 56-3010 20TFW by arnold booy, on Flickr

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Arnold

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Knife 04 » Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:49 am

:Wow: :Wow: Another fantastic post Arnold - love the F-100s - never got to see an USAF one fly

Please keep these oldies coming

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Mustang531 » Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:54 pm

Thanks Arnold for another selection of shots from your visit many years ago. I didn't see many USAF F-100s and they were mainly Lakenheath based examples that I did see.

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by ridgmeister » Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:11 pm

Lovely! Just a bit before my time but probably the best era for variety!
Thanks for sharing and keep 'em coming.
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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Seahawk 11 » Wed Feb 09, 2022 2:24 pm

Wow, just awesome, what a great set of photos, love the F-100s,
Many thanks for sharing these,

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by CLPSLFBT » Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:39 pm

Hi Arnold, fantastic shots and great aircraft ,such good quality too!! Strange to see the F4C's without the sensor under the nose cones. Every picture is mint. :thumbs:

Thanks again :D

Cheers Glenn

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Mike » Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:51 pm

Yet another excellent set of shots Arnold, thanks for posting them. :)

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by haveblue » Wed Feb 09, 2022 5:03 pm

All great photos but particularly like the pairs F100 landings. Look forward to seeing more.

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Post by Blackcat1 » Wed Feb 09, 2022 5:04 pm

Great photos. I visited Woodbridge a few times when I was a kid to see the A10s.
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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Punkrunner62 » Wed Feb 09, 2022 6:27 pm

Brilliant Arnold, just fantastic to see such great images of a couple of aviation greats.
Cheers.

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by dennis273 » Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:21 pm

Superb images (as always) Arnold, your B&W images are superb.

I never visited Woodbridge - apart from an Open House - it looks like I should have!

Dennis

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Petepilot » Wed Feb 09, 2022 9:53 pm

Wonderful Arnold, just wonderful. More please! :thumbs:
Now, where's that tardis..... :whistle:

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Post by raptor9 » Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:05 pm

Paddyboy's got it!.

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by paddyboy » Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:19 am

Hi Arnold :clap:

Not just Tooms, but F100’s :Wow:

Teenage trips to Lakenheath were the only USAF examples I ever saw :whistle:

Thanks for posting :thumbs:

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by F3 » Thu Feb 10, 2022 11:22 am

Do like those F-100 pairs.

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Ranger » Thu Feb 10, 2022 12:21 pm

CLPSLFBT wrote:
Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:39 pm
Hi Arnold, fantastic shots and great aircraft ,such good quality too!! Strange to see the F4C's without the sensor under the nose cones. Every picture is mint. :thumbs:

Thanks again :D

Cheers Glenn
Guess they should be early F4D's.

Cheers,
Ranger

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Keflavik69 » Thu Feb 10, 2022 3:44 pm

Dear Ranger, thank you for your kind comments. These Phantoms are F-4C's. Kudo's for noticing it, I never did! When you see the pair landing at Bentwaters in my 29/7/1968 posting you see that one has the modificatioin already while the other doesn't. So it is obvious that the modification only took place during that time.
Cheers,
Arnold

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Marauder » Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:44 pm

loved seeing these oldies, thanks

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Re: My first trip to England, 30/7/1968

Post by Ranger » Thu Feb 10, 2022 6:18 pm

Keflavik69 wrote:
Thu Feb 10, 2022 3:44 pm
Dear Ranger, thank you for your kind comments. These Phantoms are F-4C's. Kudo's for noticing it, I never did! When you see the pair landing at Bentwaters in my 29/7/1968 posting you see that one has the modificatioin already while the other doesn't. So it is obvious that the modification only took place during that time.
Cheers,
Arnold
Dear Arnold, first of all, love your pictures from a period I just missed. Did some studying and you are absolutely right they indeed are F4C's, apologies. Never realised the USAF had F4C's flying with noses without the chin sensor. I have no idea why they did this shortly before changing to the F4D. I always thought they started doing this with the introduction of the F4D because they thought they could do without ECM. Later they discovered they couldn't and changed the noses again with chin sensor with modified ECM equipment that did not quite fit in the first place in the chin but with an extra hump under it, it did. This is the F4D nose we know so well as they called it the Herpes nose.
Keep more of those pictures coming from that period . Looking forward.

Cheers,
Ranger

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