"The Phinal Landing" - ETNJ 05.07.2013

[Neighbour]

ETNJ 05.07.2013 - a grey and cloudy day...

"The Phinal Landing" - "Pharewell Phabolous Phantoms" or "R.I.P"















greetz
Nils

[Stratofreighter]

A nice and poignant touch in your last photo...

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[ebauer]

Today's SBS Logs...

3F9296 3722 BARON3 2013-07-05 08:43:35 F-4F Germany JG-71 Boven Pekela, NL 0000 2600

3F930D 3813 DIXI15T 2013-07-05 08:19:55 F-4F Germany JG-71 Zelezna, CZ 4220 2300

3F9321 3833 BARON6 2013-07-05 07:43:38 F-4F Germany JG-71 Boven Pekela, NL 6331 1700

3F9340 3864 BARON5 2013-07-05 07:22:15 F-4F Germany JG-71 Boven Pekela, NL --- ---

3F9330 3848 BARON4 2013-07-05 07:13:34 F-4F Germany JG-71 Boven Pekela, NL 0000 0

[alpha kilo 61]

Thanx very nice pictures of a sad moment

[flieger28]

Nice pictures!
Maybe we stood 5 meters apart, we will never know

Here are some thoughts and impressions
I brought earplugs with me to Jever but at some point i realized "last opportunity for F-4 sound", so what the hell.....
Don't know what exactly to say....so many impressions today and just now realizing that the "22" for sure was the last F-4 i saw and i was listening to.
Thanks to the Pilot of the last Phantom for the nice turn to the spotters
And Thanks to the JG 71 and the LwInsthGrp21 in Jever
I would have great appreciation of the situation if they would like to celebrate alone. So once more again, thanks that we could participate.
Buy the way the nicest spotting event i have been. No critics, no shouts .......perfect
So i guess i bored enough with my rudimentary English, so here are some of my views of the day in Jever

So the pictures are in chronological order
10:26


10:39
Marshaling ETNJ-Way


11:47
37+22 ...from now on only static pictures
heavily edited, but i like it, also that the wings are cut. The Pictures with the whole plane are in my view less "powerful"


12:05
Kind of picture of the day


THE END

[andel]

So if that "special colorscheme" 38+33 landed here !.
Does that means it is destined for scrapping at Jever ?.

[FALCONCREST]

Are there no museums interested in this piece of history ??
Or is it - as usual these days- a budget thing ??

[Key]

Thanks chaps, for this great report in images.

Erik

[Niek]

Are there no museums interested in this piece of history ??
Or is it - as usual these days- a budget thing ??

It's an FMS thing. Remember that there are some countries out there, that are not exactly qualified as friends of the USA, flying the F-4. Obviously the USA wants to prevent parts of planes ending up over there. That is why they have to be scrapped, not because the Luftwaffe wants it.

[Lord_Manhammer]

After a lot of nice Photos from that sad and rainy day here are some of my pics…
An Report about that day is printed in the October issue of the Swiss "COCKPIT"!

Thumbs up from the "Norm 81" beauty.
ISO 320 - f6.3 - 1/800 - 400mm



Salut to Spotters and families



TOP view


Happy with this photopos



Note the gloves and also how many diffrent colors you can find on an Norm 81 buddy!



38+64



The last flight of an JG71 was made with the 37+22
Pilot Oberstleutnant Berk & WSO Oberstleutnant Radmann


37+22



One of these moments...
Handover the last Richthofen F-4F to the Luftwaffeninstandhaltungsgruppe 21



Nice stickers!


38+48



All tails of the last Wittmund F-4FII.
After 40 years there are "back" in Jever.
Here it began with the GAF Phatom between 1973 to 1976.
38+28 / Schortens F4
37+92
38+37
38+62
38+64
38+33 / Norm 81
38+48
37+22 / Last flight of JG71 Phantoms



Overview...


40 YEARS



You can also find photos on my FB Site
https://www.facebook.com/HameisterAviat ... hotography
THX to Rainer!

[Wim]

Great pictures of a very sad day

[Shunn31]

Another way who's turn... Thx for the report and pictures

[wvanbel]

Here some of mine, taken during that sad day:

















Some more on my website...