#f-4c phantom

[usafphantom2]

Phantom Phriday

F-4C Phantom II and armament

@AcePilotAV via X

[stone-cold-groove]

A McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II FG USAF 64-0673 8th Tactical Fighter Wing 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II FG USAF 64-0673 8th Tactical Fighter Wing 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron Photo taken at Pima Air & Space Museum Tucson Arizona USA May 2025 HAA_5615

[radarsteddybear]

The McDonnell Douglas RF-4C Phantom II (left) is a tactical reconnaissance that is a modification of the F-4C fighter. It's got lots of cameras in the nose that are capable of taking photos in both high and low altitude in both day and night.

The Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk (right), the world's first operational stealth aircraft. The one on display was built and modified specifically for systems testing; once the testing program was over, the plane was given to the museum.

[guillemlacoma]

M.D. F-4C Phantom II. Spanish Air Force. Ala 12 (wing 12). Museum. Link: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/C.12-40

[dronescapesvideos]

F-4C-24-MC s/n 64-0829 FG flown by Col Robin Olds and 1/Lt Stephen B. Crocker of the 433rd TFS, 8th TFW, Ubon, Thailand, 20 May, 1967. They shot down 2 MiG-17s with this Phantom II. ➤VIDEO: https://youtu.be/pZODV-Y1knE

[dangerousthingobservation]

F-4C Phantom II 63-7688

In 1977 57th FIS 63-7688 look was much improved, the greenish looking tan disappeared and all looking shiny. also with the new all checkered tail prepared for the William Tell competition and then applied to all the squadron aircraft. Credit: Baldur Sveinsson

[planesawesome]

USAF F-4C Phantom 52 TFW/81 TFS at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. May 1977.

[nocternalrandomness]

F-4C Phantom - 58th TFTW - Luke AFB - Dec 8 1979

[captain-price-unofficially]

US Air Force F-4C Phantom intercepting a Russian Tu-95 (Bear) strategic bomber. F-4C belonged to the 57th FIS at Keflavik NAS. 1970s

[usafphantom2]

Phantom Phriday

And Kill MiGs……

@MAC_VSOG via X

[a-4skyhawk]

North Dakota Air National Guard F-4C Phantom of 119th Fighter-Interceptor Group "Happy Hooligans"

[monkeyssalad-blog]

McDonnell F-4C Phantom II 693 USAF 63-7693 by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: McDonnell F-4C Phantom II 693 USAF 63-7693 Photo taken at March Field Aircraft Museum Located at Riverside County California Photo taken 28th May 2025 While on Holiday HAA_6420

[alex99achapterthree]

Phantom Friday...

...still needs just a little work.

"We'll drag her back up out of the surf, get the wheels down, wash off the sand and seawater and she'll be as good as new!"

I'm making good progress with things. The family is loving all the content from the new media library that they can now watch with Plex and to make it even better, I don't have to sneakernet stuff around the house on flash drives. The image collection is on the QNAP NAS now and I should be good to go for next Friday.

Thanks for hanging in.

Until next time. For reals.

(EDIT)

@mmorao asked about the circumstances that resulted in F-4C Phantom s/n 64-0769 sitting in the ocean. Cause was an aborted takeoff at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in South Vietnam on 3 March 1967. The aircraft couldn't stop on the runway and ended up on the beach in the water, and was written off. The crew was not injured.

This is the only photograph of the incident that I can find.

[gladiopsyop]

2 F-15 Eagles and a RF-4C Phantom II from the 18th tactical fighter wing fly past soviet aircraft cruiser Minsk during Exercise Ostfriesland II in the Sea of Japan in 1983

[allthenewzworld]

Federal officials have identified the remains of U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing of Columbus, Wisconsin, who went missing during the Vietnam War nearly 60 years ago.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that its scientists had positively identified Downing's remains.

Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during an armed night reconnaissance mission over the then-Democratic Republic of Vietnam in September 1967 when his plane disappeared.

Decades of investigation yielded nothing until a recovery team in 2024 discovered aircraft wreckage at a site in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam.

Read more at the link in bio.