And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Hi CW, That Photo brings back a "Flood of Memories".... USN 05DEC1966-23NOV1970... VIETNAM Cruise MAY-DEC1968..... The "FOUR!!!" was quite a plane.... PROOF that with enough Thrust and Horsepower.. "Anything" can fly!!! skybill
There oughta be a law that the sky is filled with F-4s.
The last time I seen a Phantom in flight was 2016 at Planes of Fame airshow. No one knew who owned it. I think it was a J model. All it did was make high speed passes. Still, it was music to the ears and brought back memories.
Such an awesome plane.... I know the new technology and whiz-bangery is even better, but... an F-16 flying low overhead doesn't rattle your soul nor make you smell like JP4 the way the Phantom does. Used to get to watch them taking off and landing at NFIAB as a youth, Dad would take me up there to get his somoes at the BX... man, nothing like parking in the glide path on approach 50 yards from the runway.... can't do that shit anymore.
I remember being a young Marine at Camp Lejeune, and we boarded ships at Morehead City bound for war games in Vieques, PR. On our way back, Phantoms out of one of the east coast bases used our convoy as practice runs (no live fire) and for a solid hour we were treated with the vision of these things swooping over so low we could read the wing numbers. One would appear on the horizon as a small dot and before you knew it, it was screaming overhead to become a small dot on the opposite horizon. It was quite incredible, and that was the moment I gained a new respect for the implements of war, and hoped I would never be on the receiving end of an enemy plane like that.
Brute force on display.....in '69 working on the runways at Forest Sherman Field in Pensacola, used to watch the Blue Angels fly in and out in their F-4's, before being replaced by the Skyhawks....Beaufort MCAS and Cherry Point were havens for F-4's....Cherry Point kept a number under climate control for a couple of years not wanting to give them up right away....
Hi CW,
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USN 05DEC1966-23NOV1970... VIETNAM Cruise MAY-DEC1968..... The "FOUR!!!" was quite a plane.... PROOF that with enough Thrust and Horsepower.. "Anything" can fly!!!
skybill
There oughta be a law that the sky is filled with F-4s.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I seen a Phantom in flight was 2016 at Planes of Fame airshow. No one knew who owned it. I think it was a J model. All it did was make high speed passes. Still, it was music to the ears and brought back memories.
Rick
Rick, it may have been this squadron, the last ones flying (in US service anyway):
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Such an awesome plane....
ReplyDeleteI know the new technology and whiz-bangery is even better, but... an F-16 flying low overhead doesn't rattle your soul nor make you smell like JP4 the way the Phantom does. Used to get to watch them taking off and landing at NFIAB as a youth, Dad would take me up there to get his somoes at the BX... man, nothing like parking in the glide path on approach 50 yards from the runway.... can't do that shit anymore.
I remember being a young Marine at Camp Lejeune, and we boarded ships at Morehead City bound for war games in Vieques, PR. On our way back, Phantoms out of one of the east coast bases used our convoy as practice runs (no live fire) and for a solid hour we were treated with the vision of these things swooping over so low we could read the wing numbers. One would appear on the horizon as a small dot and before you knew it, it was screaming overhead to become a small dot on the opposite horizon. It was quite incredible, and that was the moment I gained a new respect for the implements of war, and hoped I would never be on the receiving end of an enemy plane like that.
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ReplyDeleteThe triumph of thrust over aerodynamics & the World's Leading Distributor of used MiG Parts.
ReplyDeleteWhere a B-58 Hustler is "beautiful", a F-4 Phantom is "Macho". Just about the most studly looking plane to ever tear holes in the sky.
ReplyDeleteBrute force on display.....in '69 working on the runways at Forest Sherman Field in Pensacola, used to watch the Blue Angels fly in and out in their F-4's, before being replaced by the Skyhawks....Beaufort MCAS and Cherry Point were havens for F-4's....Cherry Point kept a number under climate control for a couple of years not wanting to give them up right away....
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