Reply With QuoteNice photoshop job, but otherwise hillarious
Phantom Moon
Title says it all really
Nice photoshop job, but otherwise hillarious
As far as I know it's not a PS. Someone posted this a while back along with the story. Something like getting a KC-135 crew back.
No way am I going to believe this. Lots of reasons come to mind, but the first is the fact that I have been in an F4 cockpit (not in flight, of course) and there just isn't enough room for a person to be in that position unless it's a child.
Don't forget about the fact that it would be kinda hard to do that in a flight suit with all your kit on....Originally Posted by AlphaOneSix
Hey your'e a cagey bunch arent you? You may be surprised as to what you can do in the cockpit of a fast jet given enough effort. These pics have been around for many years, long before the current trend to photoshop everything, I couldnt swear to their originality though. Next thing you will be telling me that this isnt real either?
I won't say that this^^^one isn't real because I've seen a good photo of a F-14 in similar fashion.
Hey your'e a cagey bunch arent you? You may be surprised as to what you can do in the cockpit of a fast jet given enough effort. These pics have been around for many years, long before the current trend to photoshop everything, I couldnt swear to their originality though. Next thing you will be telling me that this isnt real either?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not attacking you personally. Image editing has been around for a long time, though I agree that "Photoshopping" as a trend is pretty recent. Your picture of the Tornado without a canopy is perfectly legit, I don't see how it is at all similar to that Phantom picture. Unless the guy in the Phantom is 3 feet tall, he physically cannot be in the position that he is in that picture.
That F-4 pic has been around for YEARS. My father has a news article with that pic from back in the 80's. He was in the 555th back in the 70's and has the article framed behind the desk in his office.
If it's not real, than you can feel free to explain how someone PS'd it oh about 20 years ago.
They got the DeLorean from Back to the Future and traveled to 2005.
I don't know if it's real or not, but as a former F-4 pilot I can tell you it would take a person of small stature to do that and it would still rate 9.9 on a scale of ten in difficulty.
Photos were modified long before photoshop, it just took more time and skill.
Found this tale on the web, might lend some crediblity to the pics:
"Moon Over the Pacific"
This photograph was taken in the late 70's on a mid-winter flight from xxxx, Okinawa to the states for delivery of the RF-4C to a periodic maintenance facility in California.
The aircrew was from xxxx AFB, Texas and was routinely "treated" to this good deal TDY. The formation consisted of one KC-135 tanker and two RF-4C's from the xxxx "Recce" outfit.
Sometime after the fifth or sixth in-flight refueling, the normal boredom began to set in and to keep occupied the Phantom crews talked to the crew members of the tanker Aircraft on the HF radio just to chit-chat. During the conversation it was revealed that the tanker had some additional passengers on board, which included a flight nurse that was catching a hop back to the states. The nurse was then invited onto the flight deck, and talked to the crews of the F-4s and instantly became quite good friends with the pilot of #xxxx.
It was during the next refueling, when after #xxx had "hooked-up" and began taking fuel, that the boom operator suddenly went out of view, and was replaced by a totally naked flight nurse, that then pressed her breasts against the refueling window. The pilot of #xxx almost had an emergency "break-away", but hung in there and took the full off-load.
Following this flashing, the crew of #xxx decided to retaliate and took a high position on the tanker's left wing. Since it was a winter flight, the crew was also required to wear the famous "poopy suite", or anti-exposure flight suit in addition to the normal clothing. Luckily the pilot had first pinned the ejection seat before he began to undress. Anyone that has ever flown the Phantom will appreciate the degree of difficulty in performing this maneuver.
First the leg restraints had to be released, then the parachute was unbuckled, along with the seat pack and lap belt restraints. Next, off came the winter flight jacket, the normal flight suit and gloves, then the poopy suit, the thermal underwear and so forth. Then he had to stand on his head.
The picture was taken by the pilot of the other F-4, and the timing was right after General Creech had issued his "Doctrine on Aircrew Discipline" which included more rules about not carrying a camera in the cockpit. The photograph became an instant success within the crew-dog underworld, and late in 1979, when xxxx's Wing Commander was fired for having lost so many crews and jets during a Red Flag, this photo was at the last minute, inserted into his going away picture, signed by all of the wing's crew members.
This Colonel was well liked by all, and to repay our kindness for having given him this moon shot, he emptied his lawn mower's supply of gasoline into his on-base back yard, and spelled the F___ word in large enough letters that everyone could see it from the traffic pattern.
A parting shot. The pilot of #xxx, was never admonished for this incident, but was later in trouble for having sonic boomed his hometown on a cross-country. He was then selected for an assignment to the first F-16 squadron and disappeared.
The pilot that took the picture, was a Flight Commander at the time, was recalled by SAC and flew B-52's until he retired. He is now a Captain with American Airlines. The back-seaters were riffed a few years after the photo and also disappeared. And now you know the rest of the story.
The nurse, by the way, loved the gesture and met the pilot of #xxx that night at the O'Club, but that's another story.
Nrjetix, nice story and a good read. The story certainly rings true
Believe it or not!
The story above is pretty close to what happened. The incident happened somewhere in the 76-79 time frame. The pilot is about 5'6" tall, so he could manage it. The backseaters didn't get riffed - one resigned when assigned to Kadena, and the other went on to be selected for O-6. The nurse part of the story is false. The motivation was that one of the tanker crew decided to moon us, and the pilot decided that couldn't go unchallenged. The tanker crew remarked "s... hot!".
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