I believe the statute of limitations has passed for the guys that did this flying. Who doesn’t love low passes by supersonic jet fighters? I mean besides commanders, safety folks and humorless tree hugging hippies.
Stolen from 67Cougar.
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Right Now, Back ThenI believe the statute of limitations has passed for the guys that did this flying. Who doesn’t love low passes by supersonic jet fighters? I mean besides commanders, safety folks and humorless tree hugging hippies. Stolen from 67Cougar. 12 comments to Right Now, Back Then |
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No gunning down the local wildlife with onboard ordinance? Pansies…
An RF-4 was unarmed.
Thanks for posting this. I flew C models in Turkey in the 70’s and it brings back good memories.
Thanks for your service woodstock! Where I went to school, RF-4Cs shot approaches all day long on a near-by runway. General Dynamics also practiced their Paris Air show routine with the then new F-16. Pretty cool stuff for a teenager.
Somewhere, someone is saying, “Damn! I wish I’d brought my water skis!”
So am I understanding that these were remote controlled? The boys loved this (princess was less than impressed).
Tracy…these were manned, but “unarmed.”
There were some remanufactured about 4 years ago for missile target practice by, I believe, the Navy, and those were the only un-manned remote control drones.
I crewed RF4Cs like these for 3 years during the Viet Nam thing, 1967-1970. Great Airplane! Correct on the lack of armament. The RF4C had a load of cameras and odd radars, etc, but not even a peashooter for help.
The F-4 was the plane of my youth. My dad had 20 pictures of himself in the cockpit of one at Wright-Patt from when they let the Civil Air Patrol come play at the base. It felt like Wright-Patt had 1000s of them. We lived right under the outside ring and they flew over nonstop.
My dad loved the plane. We rented “Iron Eagle 2″ one night. Dad turned it on and saw they were using F-4s for Migs and he immediately took it back to the rental store and complained.
Actually, the RF-4 could carry Sidewinders for self defense, but this was rarely ever seen. I have heard rumors that those flying near North Korea used to carry them, but I have not seen pictures.
I visited the Reno Guard Unit about the time this video was shot – in 1995 shortly before the unti retired the birds and converted to C-130s. They went out in style – several time to climb and speed records were set with ‘clean’ birds in the year before their retirement, records I believe still stand.
A few of Reno’s birds went to Spain after retirement, most went to AMARC. Their Phantoms were all FY64- and FY-65 birds.
Ahhh, I see. Thanks for the clarification.
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