Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tu-95 Intercept

Tupolev Tu-95 intercept

Original

Reason

Out of the several images of western Air Forces planes in correlation to the Tupolev Tu-95 on the page, this is the best out of the bunch (and sadly, put near the bottom). The composition and positioning of the planes shows the dynamic differences between Jet plane and Propeller plane very nicely. The background doesn't show too much obstructions and looks nice.

Proposed caption

An F-15C Eagle intercepting a Russian Tu-95MS off the west coast of Alaska on September 28, 2006. NORAD scrambled F-15s from Elmendorf Air Force Base and Canadian CF-18s from CFB Cold Lake in Central Alberta to intercept "a number of the Russian Tu-95 Bear heavy bombers participating in an annual Russian air force exercise near the coast of Alaska and Canada." This launch was a result of the bombers penetrating the North America's Air Defense Identification Zone by the Russian 37th Air Army.

Articles this image appears in

North American Aerospace Defense Command, Tupolev Tu-95

Creator

12th Fighter Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base.

• Support as nominator 293.xx.xxx.xx 23:07, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
• Support No glaring technical problems, and very encyclopedic. CillaИ X♦C [dic] 23:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose, all I get from this is two planes next to each other. Nothing really jumps out at me about it, and I'm not seeing this dynamic difference you talk about. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 23:51, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Jet plane vs. propeller-driven plane. --293.xx.xxx.xx 01:51, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
    • Except there's nothing dynamic about this picture. If the F-15 was pulling maneuvers around the Tu-95 we'd have something, but this is very static. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 03:10, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Unremarkable and unencyclopedic. There are about 5 photos on the Tupolev Tu-95 page that are more informative. Cacophony 01:39, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Image:F-14 with Bear.jpg, Image:Tupolev_Tu_95_USAF.jpg, and Image:F-15 & Tu-95.jpg are the ones i'm comparing to in my arguement. All linked to the section Mischief in the Air (okay, it needs a better title, so sue me). 4 images dealing with the same topic (NATO aircraft versus the Russian Air Force, and this is the best one of the lot. --293.xx.xxx.xx 01:51, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

I think the strict profile view is far from the best way to illustrate this. It would be vastly improved if the camera was 45 degrees above and 45 degrees in the front of the planes. I would agree that it is an above average photo, but nowhere near the top .01% of all images on Wikipedia. Cacophony 02:41, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose per Night Gyr --Childzy ¤ Talk 20:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 04:22, 18 August 2007 (UTC)