All posts tagged 'F-4'

F-4 Phantom Returns to Service as Aerial Target

Posted on December 2nd, 2013 · Posted in Aviation News

by Ashley M. Wright, 325th Fighter Wing Public Affairs, US Air Force The 82nd Aerial Target Squadron received the last of the “new” QF-4 aerial targets Nov. 19 as the Vietnam-era aircraft landed here. The QF-4, Aircraft 68-0599, spent more than 20 years in the Air Force “Boneyard” at Davis-Monthan Air..
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Double Ace – Col. Ralph Parr

Posted on September 3rd, 2012 · Posted in Pilots & Everyone Else

Retired Col. Ralph Parr flew a P-38 Lightning in World War II and an F-86 Sabre during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He is the only military member to be award the Distinguished Service Cross and the Air Force Cross. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.)..
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Former F-4 mechanic connects with display plane at MCAS Yuma

Posted on August 18th, 2012 · Posted in Aviation News

Seventy-year-old Sam Robbins talks about an F4-B Phantom II jet that he believes he worked on in the early 1960s while Robbins was stationed in Virginia. The jet currently makes Marine Corps Air Station Yuma its home, sitting among other aircraft and armaments on display at the main entrance. That..
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