Phantom at Fallon

Ours or theirs? Foreign military aircraft based in the U.S. are
required to have U.S. markings.

I can remember a German F-104 flown by a civilian Lockheed pilot at MCAS El
Toro. It came down from Burbank and was painted with a green preservative
paint to somewhat cover the marking, but they were visible up close. It was
there for testing a hook system and were using the field arresting gear.

Leanne

In message , Jim
writes
Jdf4cheval wrote:
Thanks, Ed. I thought of that, but if so it didn't have the national marking
stripes along the top of the Vertical Stab.
Joe
Ours or theirs? Foreign military aircraft based in the U.S. are
required to have U.S. markings.

Why?
--
Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!

Peter Twydell wrote:

Jim writes

Jdf4cheval wrote:

Thanks, Ed. I thought of that, but if so it didn't have the national marking
stripes along the top of the Vertical Stab.
Joe

Ours or theirs? Foreign military aircraft based in the U.S. are
required to have U.S. markings.

Why?

Because years ago all of the black helicopter/konspiracy/tin hat
brigade were citing the presence of those German-marked aircraft
and their associated flight training program as proof-positive
that NATO/The Bilderburgers/Various Other Nefarious Organizations
had taken over the United States and all of its military forces.

Since sanity is not required of U. S. Citizens, obviously the U.
S. Gummint and the German gummint felt it was easier just to put
US markings on the aircraft [with the German colors on the tail],
than to waste time fooling with nutcases. I don't even know that
it was the result of an act of Congress rather than just being an
agreement between the two governments.
--
OJ III
[Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]

It would probably be a VX 30 Bloodhound.

They are technically QF4s but several of them are painted all grey with a
low profile wolf painted on the tail

Jake


"F9pnthr" wrote in message
...
While visiting the flightline at NAS Fallon in early September, I
photographed
a Phantom taking off. On examining the photo today, it appears to be an
F-4E
from the nose configuration. Also, it's a darker grey than the navy
aircraft in
other photos. Does anyone have any thoughts on what this aircraft mey be?

"F9pnthr" wrote in message
...
While visiting the flightline at NAS Fallon in early September, I
photographed
a Phantom taking off. On examining the photo today, it appears to be an
F-4E
from the nose configuration. Also, it's a darker grey than the navy
aircraft in
other photos. Does anyone have any thoughts on what this aircraft mey be?

Civilian contractor using it as a testbed?

The QF4 sounds right. I just wanted to point out another possibilty.