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Re: some good old thunderstreak and thunderflash stuff

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bingo20 wrote:It was always impressive to watch,especially during line-up for take-off when they stood thundering for minutes while full power was given on the brakes

Be patient , there are more photos to come ! :!:
Like this one. Alas, not taken by myself but obtained from the 'photosection Eindhoven airbase' (fotodienst Vlb. Eindhoven), picture taken somewhere in the sixties:

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Iwan Bogels wrote:.The big fuel tanks give it some more body, but without it it’s just a skinny ugly aircraft to me…..

Ready to take some serious flaming….
look at this slimline & elegant plane, the beautiful F-84F Thunderstreak :wink:

An official RNLAF picture of the Whiskey Four '67 team:
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and a photo obtained from the Thunderbirds display team:
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some good old thunderstreak and thunderflash stuff

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You chose the right picture there , Rob , because that is exactly what I meant : those thunderstreaks produced an ear-deafening noise while
testing their Wright J-65 engines on the threshold of the runway !
As young spotters we stood there watching only a few hundred metres away, but we enjoyed it again and again! :roll:

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Tribute to the Flash and the Streak

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by now let us start the show-season with some nice action-shots of thunderstreak-demoteams , like this formation landing at Eindhoven in August 1969... :o
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How about the strange colour scheme of the P-116? I don't think I ever saw a non-camouflaged F-84 in Dutch service? But this one clearly looks like bare metal or so. Nice!
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Leeuwarden, 18-06-'63:

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patrick dirksen wrote:How about the strange colour scheme of the P-116? I don't think I ever saw a non-camouflaged F-84 in Dutch service? But this one clearly looks like bare metal or so. Nice!
No strange colour scheme at all, have seen them flying like that; RNLAF/KLu Streaks were in bare metal in the beginning, see also:
http://www.ipms.nl/sigs/signl-current/d ... emo-3.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
and:
http://home.casema.nl/kw.jonker/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Spine24 wrote:Leeuwarden, 18-06-'63:
Spine,
One of the regional (14) RNLAF 'Open Days' that year I presume, like every airbase had one?

I remember the one on Eindhoven and especially the poster with the drawing of an F-104G!
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patrick dirksen wrote:How about the strange colour scheme of the P-116? I don't think I ever saw a non-camouflaged F-84 in Dutch service? But this one clearly looks like bare metal or so. Nice!
My dad was an F-84F crew-chief, first with 311 and then with 312 at Volkel, from '63 to '66. When he joined 311, they still had several eighty-fours in bare metal. Soon thereafter, they were all camouflaged. Funny anecdote: then famous Dutch aviation journalist Hugo Hooftman reported that because all Streaks were camouflaged, they were no longer capable of the strike-mission!

Volkel Streaks almost always flew with an asymmetric load, the LH inner pylon empty and a 450 gallon fueltank on the RH inner pylon. Left was where the nuke was supposed to go. Mostly they flew with three tanks. In the summertime they needed four ATO-bottles to get airborne!

Will upload some pics from my dad's collection shortly.

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OK, as promised, first some I shot myself in August 1988 at the Safaripark, Volkel:

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And then some scans from prints from duplicates of slides ( :roll: ) by Cor de Blij:

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Sorry for the quality of the scans, will try to get hold of the duplicate slides and re-scan sometime.

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One out of 312's diaries (it's P-298 by the way):

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Very nice contributions sofar Mickey!
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Let's continue with this nice and tidy one : two Streaks , one asleep but the other one alert ! :?:

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:nl:
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Re: some good old thunderstreak and thunderflash stuff

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bingo20 wrote:Let's continue with this nice and tidy one : two Streaks , one asleep but the other one alert ! :?:

Hans
Hans,

I don't think it is on alert, as I think Eindhoven's tasks (CAS and conventional bombing) didn't require QRA. I think Pieter 229 has been pre-flighted already and Pieter 259 hasn't. Lovely picture by the way - shot over the fence?

During the Eightyfour-time at Volkel, Air Force people weren't even allowed to take pics during normal working days (Volkel always having tighter security due to the Strike mission).

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