McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

The icy calm Navy veteran, who told air traffic control “we have part of the aircraft missing, so we're going to need to slow down a bit” while her plane limped along with an exploded engine and a ... Sullenberger flew the Air Force's F-4 Phantom II before leaving for Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.

SEOUL (AFP) - The last time South Korea's President Moon Jae In was on duty for a tree-related event in the Demilitarised Zone, it involved 813 troops, 27 helicopters, B-52 bombers with fighter escorts - and an aircraft carrier prowling offshore. As a young serviceman, Moon played a supporting role in ...

The Vietnam air combat exhibit centers on four aircraft in the T. A. Wilson Great Gallery–a stealthy Lockheed YO-3A, a Bell UH-1 “Huey” helicopter and the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 jet fighters. Flanking them are the Vought F-8 Crusader fighter and Lockheed M/D-21 ...

While Japan expected receive to and showed strong interest in acquiring the U.S. F-22 Raptor, an elite fifth generation air superiority fighter and the successor to the F-4 and F-15, in the mid 2000s Tokyo was prevented from acquiring the fighter due to a blanket congressional export ban. The decision not to ...

The first order of the aircraft will help replace the country's aging F-4 Phantom fighters, and the additional buy will allow Japan to retire some of its F-15s. The island nation also wants to create another fighter to be introduced in the 2030s to deter Chinese and Russian jets. The Japanese stealth aircraft ...

Ankara continues provocations in the Aegean as Turkish F-4 fighter jets flew over Panagia and Oinousses islands on Wednesday afternoon. The overflight was at a height of 12,500 feet, with Greece responding immediately. A pair of Greek F-16 took off from Lemnos and intercepted the Turkish aircraft ...

Fast and heavy F-4 Phantom fighters had underperformed against the North Vietnamese Air Force, due to their immature long-range missile technology ... (In fact, the Eagle went on to prove it was in fact possible to create a very maneuverable twin-engine jet fighter, if you didn't mind the cost—and air-to-air ...

Airmen from the 8th Fighter Wing in South Korea celebrate a legendary former commander every March by growing "Robin Olds mustaches," named after the famed fighter ... Olds' solution was Operation Bolo, where he disguised his F-4 Phantoms as bombers and lured the Vietnamese fighters into a trap.

But for the more skeptical, it is possibly a contrail from a missile, or just a fighter jet with a “dirty” exhaust. The footage taken by Australian Kerry ... In this file photo, a F-4 Phantom II fighter-bomber of the Royal Navy is launched from the 'HMS Ark Royal' in September 1972. (Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty ...

One day I was in there “flying” when the ordnance officer came out and found this kid inside an airplane that had been secured with a canopy hasp and lock. ... It seemed like a fighter. ... Pilots of the McDonnell F-4 Phantom were plenty glad that we had a maximum speed of over 1,400 mph to draw on.

Charles B. DeBellevue appears with his F-4D Phantom at Udorn Air Base in Thailand during a deployment with the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron. ... in October 1971 to the "Triple Nickles" of the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, flying the F-4 Phantom from Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand.

If you've got the cash, why not splurge on the aircraft that was also the first in the F-4 family to be outfitted with hard points to carry bombs — and, as Warbirds News notes, subsequently helped convince the U.S. military that the warplane could function as both a tactical fighter and bomber. It just needs a little ...

City officials sent the General Services Administration a request for a display in early February. The F-4 Phantom II flew the Alamogordo skies for 50 years. The jet was the primary bomber aircraft in the U.S. Air Force between the 1960s and 1970s. The Holloman Air Force had 96 F-4s in four squadrons.

The Phantom McDonnell Douglas F4H-1F Phantom II Bu.145310 — a pre-production variant and the 11th one produced before the plane was ultimately re-designated the F-4 in September 1962 — is on sale for $3.95 million, Warbirds News reported March 14. Just 45 F4H-1F Phantoms were ever built ...

If country X has a surplus of C-130 landing gear or if they no longer have a need for certain aircraft parts, the country can place it online for foreign ... are from aircraft the U.S. Air Force no longer flies but are still in the inventories of certain foreign partners, such as the C-47, A-37, T-33, T-37, F-4 and B-707.

Pete Norwood, one of the team leaders for bringing the F-4 Phantom to Grove, snaps a photo of Todd Hicks, Jalene Villarreal, Blaise Villarreal, and dad Paul Villarreal, on Monday, Feb. .... With a $45,000 check to Worldwide Aircraft Recovery, Beverly Helms jokes the F-4 Phantom jet fund is a bit empty.

Constructed by McDonnell Douglas, the F-4 Phantom is classified among the most significant military aircraft in U.S. history. Approximately 5,000 Phantoms were constructed from 1958 to 1981 and were used by the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. Beverly Helms said that they brought the jet to the ...

The two bombers, escorted by Sukhoi Su-35S (Flanker-E+) multirole fighter jets, flew down the entirety of Japan's East coast hurtling close to U.S. and Japanese military bases including Misawa Air Base, Yokosuka Naval Base and Atsugi Air Base. The Russian bombers were shadowed by F-2, F-4, and ...

The Vietnam era, the Gulf War era, this airplane was there for all of them. If you don't have a really good symbol of strength then you will not be at peace very long,” says Norwood. Norwood himself has over 1,000 hours of flying experience inside F-4 Phantom's. “You can ask anybody who has ever flown ...

ALAMOGORDO — The F-4 aircraft graced the Alamogordo skies for 50 years. Now the city wants to honor the military by displaying the aircraft inside the Alamogordo Airborne Monument at 10th Street and White Sands Boulevard. The F-4 Phantom II entered the U.S. Air Force inventory in 1963 and was the ...

Their other fighter design of the period, the XF8U-3 Crusader III, was intended not only to compete with the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II but to keep the .... The thrust of jet aircraft and sights of the top warbirds of yesteryear filled the skies of western Alabama on Sunday during the final day of the ...

It has been corrected to the F-4 Phantom II from the Vietnam War. Heather ... One time at the airfield, Penney recalls, her father took her to see a F-4 Phantom II, a Vietnam War jet, on hangar row. But he didn't show her the plane, he turned her to watch the mechanics tinkering with the vintage aircraft.

Last week, Lockheed Martin proposed building a hybrid F-22 Raptor/F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for Japan. The jet, possibly to be known as F-3, would be the most advanced jet fighter in the world. Why Japan wants the best fighter it can possibly afford, and why such a high-tech nation was forced to go to an ...

Japan is moving to scrap plans to domestically develop a new advanced fighter jet due to staggering costs and anticipated engineering pitfalls. ... This was before a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ran into difficulties developing the Mitsubishi Regional Jet passenger aircraft for commercial ...

Japan has agreed to purchase 42 F-35As, and is now considering an additional 20, for a total of 62 aircraft. Japan is ... Relations at Daito Bunka University in Saitama, the F-35 purchase was always planned to replace the ASDF's aging F-4 Phantom fighter aircraft – the newest F-4 is almost 40 years old.

These clips were filmed in 2016, during Flisvos Marina Air Show. They show two F-4E AUP Phantoms, belonging to the 338 Squadron of the Hellenic Air Force, from Andravida air base, performing a Low Apex Attack. It's a kind of visual pop-up attack with the aircraft approaching the target at very low-level ...

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a legendary aircraft — an icon of the Vietnam War and the archetype of the third-generation jet fighter designs that entered service in the 1960s. More than 5,000 of these heavy supersonic fighters were built, and hundreds continue to serve and even see combat in ...