#f-4 phantom ii

[thatsrightice]

F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #62

When the Navy Blue Angels were looking for an aircraft to replace the F-4 Phantom II in the mid-1970s, the program manager really wanted the F-14 Tomcat but did not want all of the weapons control systems, deeming them wasteful. After discussing with Grumman, it was concluded that the cost of producing an F-14 without the weapons systems would be greater than the cost to produce an F-14 with the weapon systems. They settled for the next best choice, the A-4 Skyhawk.

[nocternalrandomness]

”The Evaluators”

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Cool photo of the McDonnel-Douglas F-4 Phantom II. "The Phantom Ghost" 1962- 1992

[dronescapesvideos]

Vietnam War Combat Aircraft, Bombers, Helicopters, And Rescue Planes. Included a rare F-4 Combat Tactics Documentary

[eyestothe-skies]

F-4EJ Phantom II, JASDF

Source: pipipi yu

[ickyonions]

Flygirl Oryou-san, based on my favorite F-4EJ Kai squadron. Their number, 301, sounds like “return [safely]” AND “frog” in Japanese! 🐸

[casposters]

(via Into-The-Storm.jpg (2000×1238))

[usafphantom2]

Advisory years (1961 - 1965) by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: 1964 – Activities on the deck of USS Constellation (CVA-64). Two McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs from VF-143 get ready.

[blackros78]

An F-4N Phantom II of the VMFA-323 Death Rattlers at full afterburner on the catapult aboard USS Coral Sea CV-43. November 1979.

[casbooks]

Books of 2023

Book 45 of 2023

Title: A Backseat View from the Phantom Authors: Fleet S. Lentz Tags: A-6 Intruder, A-7 Corsair II, Air Liaison Officer, B-52 Stratofortress, F-4 Phantom II, F-8 Crusader, FAC, KC-130 Hercules, KHM Angkor Temples, KHM Cambodia, KHM Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975), KHM Pol Pot / Saloth Sar, KHM Tonle Sap (Great Lake), LAO Hmong Meo Tribesmen, LAO Laos, LAO Laotian Civil War (1959-1975), LAO Pathet Lao, LAO Plain of Jars / Plaine des Jarres, LAO Saravane, LAO Tchepone, LAO USAF Steve Canyon Program - Ravens FAC (Laotian Civil War), LAO Vientiane, lineback, MiG-15 Fagot, MiG-17 Fresco, MiG-19 Farmer, MiG-21 Fishbed, PHL Philippines, PHL Poro Point, PHL US USAF Clark Air Force Base, PHL US USN NAS Cubi Point, POW, SA-2 Guideline SAM, SA-7 Strela SAM, SAM, THA Bangkok, THA RTAF Royal Thai Air Force, THA RTAFB Nam Phong Royal Thai Airbase, THA RTAFB Nam Phong Royal Thai Airbase - The Rose Garden, THA RTAFB Udorn Royal Thai Air Base, THA RTNAF U-Tapao Air Field, THA Thailand, THA Udon Thani, THA Udon Thani - Charoen Hotel, THA Udon Thani - Yellow Bird Bar, THA US USA Port Samae San (Vietnam War), THA USMC TF Delta (Vietnam War), US President Richard M. Nixon, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, US USAF JEST Jungle Environment Survival Training, US USAF United States Air Force, US USMC 9th Marines, US USMC 9th Marines - 3/9, US USMC MAG-15, US USMC MALS-41, US USMC MCAS Cherry Point NC, US USMC MCAS El Toro CA, US USMC MCAS El Toro CA - SERE School, US USMC United States Marine Corps, US USMC VFMA-115 Silver Eagles, US USMC VFMA-115 Silver Eagles - Blade, US USMC VMFA-112, US USMC VMFA-115, US USMC VMFA-232 Red Devils, US USMC VMFA-312, US USMC VMFA-533, US USN NAS Dallas TX, US USN NAS Glynco GA, US USN NAS Miramar CA, US USN NAS Miramar CA - Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), US USN NAS Oceana VA, US USN NAS Pensacola FL, US USN United States Navy, US USN VF-96, US USN VFA-192 Golden Dragons, US USN VT-10, VNM 1972 Easter Offensive / Nguyen Hue (1972) (Vietnam War), VNM Cam Lo, VNM Camp Carroll (Vietnam War), VNM Da Nang, VNM DRV NVA North Vietnamese Army, VNM DRV NVAF North Vietnamese Air Force, VNM DRV VC Viet Cong, VNM Gia Lam, VNM Hanoi, VNM Hanoi - Ho Lao Prison (Hanoi Hilton) (Vietnam War), VNM Hanoi - Metropole Hotel, VNM Operation Arc Light (1965-1973) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Combat Skyspot (1965-1973) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Linebacker I (1972) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Linebacker II (1972) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Sunset (1973) (Vietnam War), VNM Phouc Tuong (Dogpatch), VNM Quang Tri, VNM RVN SVNAF Da Nang Airbase, VNM Vietnam, VNM Vietnam War (1955-1975), WSO/RIO Weapons Systems Officer/Radar Interecept Officer Rating: ★★ (2 Stars) Subject: Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Aviation.USMC.Fighters, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Laotian Civil War.Aviation.FAC.Ravens, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Laotian Civil War.Aviation.USMC.Fighters

Description: As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II during the wind-down of the Vietnam War. Overcoming military regulations, he and his fellow Marines at The Rose Garden (Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong) kept sorely needed supplies moving in while moving combat troops out of Southeast Asia. His personal and accessible memoir describes how pilots and RIOs executed dangerous air-to-ground bombing missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos—quite different from the air-to-air warfare for which they had trained—and kept themselves mission-capable (and human) while surviving harsh circumstances.

Review: This book should actually have been called A Frontseat View of Nam Phong. The amount he wrote on flying and being in the air and in combat is miniscule - barely a footnote - when compared to his detailed rememberances of people, what they did at the bar, what he did as a building inspector on base, and details on scrounging for stuff at Cubi Point and elsewhere. But to really get a feel of what it was like to fly combat in Laos and Cambodia and both South and North Vietnam, you'd better get a different book because this one barely mentions any of that. Definitely a 2 star book simply because of the misleading title and description. If this was supposed to be a book about life at an Air Base, it'd be a 3 at least, but NOPE.

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F-4S Phantom

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[nocternalrandomness]

"Phantom Fill Up"

[lonestarflight]

Model of a proposed version of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II (FVS) with an airframe modified by Grumman to use variable geometry wings.

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[dronescapesvideos]

F-4 Phantom II - McDonnell Douglas Supersonic Jet Interceptor And Fighter Bomber

[coldwarairforce]

Parked in a line on a flight line are, from front to back, a 493rd Tactical Fighter Squadron F-111F, an 81st Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II, a 525th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-15 Eagle, an 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron F-4E Phantom II, 496th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcon and an F-5E Tiger II aircraft. 1987.