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US Navy Blue Angels, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, May, 1969.
F4 Phantom solo planes numbers five and six are seen here over the Purdue University campus in a May 1969 air show. Nearly sixty years ago F4’s were the front-line supersonic interceptor/fighter/bombers of the US Navy. Eventually used by the Marine Corps and Air Force as well, more than five thousand of these venerable aircraft were produced. No other American jet fighter has been produced in such large numbers. Image was made with a Yashica J-5 SLR fitted with a manual focus Yashinon 75-230mm f4.5 Zoom lens at 230mm using Kodak black and white film. Due to their high prices motor-driven 35mm SLR’s were the tools of professional photographers in 1969, and their firing rates were just two to four frames per second–primitive compared to today’s mirrorless cameras and professional DSLR’s. Auto-focus lenses were fifteen years into the future. Of the images made that day on a single thirty-six exposure roll of film, only one or two frames were successful.
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