On Oct 22, 6:31*pm, Giles wrote:
On Oct 22, 7:59*pm, Frank Reid © 2010 wrote:

*can ANYBODY help me find the famous photograph of the airplane (i
THINK it was an f-104) with all its armaments arrayed on the tarmac in
front of it, and which served as the model for the photo on the back
of one of pink floyd's albums (meddle?) which showed their presumably
private jet with all of the band's musical paraphernalia arrayed in
similar fashion?

Don't think it was the 104 (which I worked on). *Pretty much AIM 9,
AIM 7 and guns.

F-104 was just a guess, based solely on my recollection of seeing the
photo in what a fading memory says was pre F-4 days.

However, the F-4 carried a LOT of crap in its day.http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=6097

That photo shows precisely the sort of array I recall.....but it is
shot from a different (much higher) angle and shows a vastly different
assortment of armaments. *What I remember is bombs, belted ammunition
and, perhaps, some rockets. *Moreover, the plane itself was the color
of bare aluminum (presumably) and had a much sharper nose. *I just
googled the F-104 and this:

http://www.baha.be/Webpages/Navigato...cs/post_ww2/F-...

does indeed look much more like what I remember.

In any case, I was fairly certain (naif though I was) that the
photograph, like yours of the F-4, showed all the armaments that the
plane COULD carry in limited combinationsand quantities.....not what
it DID carry all at one time. *Even I strongly suspected that no
airplane ever had THAT kind of carrying capacity.

Maybe the best place to start the search is with the Pink Floyd album
cover. *The angle from which the photo was taken is pretty nearly
identical to that I remember of the original and the gear spread out
in front of it was instantly recognizable......so much so that the
antecedent came immediately to mind. *However, a desultory search has
so far failed to turn up the picture from the album cover. *You'd
think this wouldn't be hard to find, ainna? * * *

giles
*turns out maybe the original photo i'm looking for isn't so famous
after all. apparently this was a common sort of thing to do with
military aircraft back in the good old days when a new one rolled out
onto the runway every other week or so.

You also could order up a special version of the F4 with strengthened
wings set up for tactical nukes. Their order was one open source
indication that the Israelis had what they have.

Dave