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The first of two posts from Greenham Common in 1983. The first celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Phantom.

XT597 Phantom FG.1 A&AEE July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

35+65 RF-4E Luftwaffe July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

XT863 Phantom FG.1 RAF July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

37+85 F-4F Luftwaffe July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

XV470 Phantom FGR.2 RAF July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

68480 F-4E USAF July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

69250 F-4G USAF July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

66382 F-4E USAF July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

XV415 Phantom FGR.2 RAF July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

74650 F-4E USAF July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

38+72 F-4F Luftwaffe July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

XV501 Phantom FGR.2 RAF July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

A fabulous line up and something that won't be seen again (sadly). The last Greenham show had quite a few other gems as well. Thank you for sharing these.

GC was a brilliant show and this Phantom themed event was just fantastic, remember it very well.
Great scans Andy , thanks very much for posting

3Greens

Great thread Andy and nice to see all these F-4s again. As others have said this really was one of the best shows!

As Keith has said - very nice scans as well - really good job!

Cheers

Darren

That was a great show

Toomtastic, Andy

That was the only GC show I went to and it was a cracker

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

I was there back in '83, pictures bring back memories. Thanks for sharing

Great show , if I remember rightly the SP F4 got fed up of not being colourful enough for the photographers , so the went to the IAT and bot a big round sticker for their port intake. Then got lots of pictures taken , me for one unfortunately my pics were lost during my house move.

It certainly was a wonderful show.Great F-4s one after the other.

Brings back some great memories, never get bored of the old classic F4.

Lovely shots mancman, l loved that show because l particularly like the mighty Phantom. But....

Maybe it's just me but l was disappointed that there were only three nationalities represented. I had high hopes of Greek, Turkish, Spanish and even maybe Japanese or Korean representatives. I think the big difference was that at later IAT or RIAT events geopolitics had moved on and we did get four nationalities one year when a Spanish one was in the static so we had four countries represented.

Anyway, great images thanks for sharing.

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Wed May 26, 2021 4:46 pm

Maybe it's just me but l was disappointed that there were only three nationalities represented. I had high hopes of Greek, Turkish, Spanish and even maybe Japanese or Korean representatives. I think the big difference was that at later IAT or RIAT events geopolitics had moved on and we did get four nationalities one year when a Spanish one was in the static so we had four countries represented.

1983- UK, French, Canadian, Danish, German, Italian, Dutch, New Zealand, Chilean, Jordanian, Belgium & US Air Arms = 12 Nationalities?

Or am I misunderstanding the statement? F-4s only?

Dear lord look at all them.

Yes, l was just referring to Phantoms. IAT was always unbeatable for the mix of nationalities.

Knife 04.

Yes l was just referring to the nationalities of Phantoms at the show.

Pwoah! Phantastic Phantoms - the best of the best (apart from the F-104). Thanks for sharing!

What a great show that was

Superb images

You did well to get a nice blue sky as a backdrop. When I photographed them on the Sat a.m. it was all grey which at least served to demonstrate the efficacy of the new Barley grey camo!