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A Turkish Air Force F-4E Phantom II aircraft with 50th flight year special livery in valley passage. On 24 February 2015, two RF-4Es crashed in the Malatya region in the southeast of Turkey, under yet unknown circumstances, killing both crew of two each. [176] [177] [178] On 5 March 2015, an F-4E-2020 crashed in central Anatolia killing both crew.
All told, the U.S. Air Force flew 5.25 million sorties over South Vietnam, North Vietnam, northern and southern Laos, and Cambodia, losing 2,251 aircraft: 1,737 to hostile action, and 514 in accidents. 2,197 of the losses were fixed-wing, and the remainder rotary-wing. The USAF sustained approximately 0.4 losses per 1,000 sorties during the ...
All the American aces flew as members of two-man crews on F-4 Phantoms, reflecting the emergence of air-to-air missiles as the primary weapons of aerial combat; both crewmen were awarded a kill for each VPAF aircraft shot-down. The F-4 Phantom II crew consisted of a pilot and a radar intercept officer (RIO) in the United States Navy (USN) or a ...
On Nov. 25, 1968, San D. Francisco was a first lieutenant co-piloting an F-4 Phantom jet fighter, after volunteering for a mission when one of the original crew fell ill, said his younger sister ...
On Nov. 25, 1968, Francisco was a first lieutenant co-piloting an F-4 Phantom jet fighter, after volunteering for a mission when one of the original crew fell ill, said his younger sister Terri ...
In March 1967, they were trying to attack a steel mill in North Vietnam just north of Hanoi. F-4Ds of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing from Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base. On March 10, 1967, the sky was clear for a bombing run, but both F-4 Phantom IIs were hit by anti-aircraft fire. Aman's plane took the worst damage; his fuel tank had been hit ...
Roger Clinton Locher (born September 13, 1946) [3] is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Air Force and a former McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II Navigator/Weapon Systems Officer (WSO) and subsequent Pilot who, during Operation Linebacker in the Vietnam War, was shot down only 40 miles (64 km) from Hanoi, North Vietnam. [4]
A US Air Force QF-4E Phantom takes off during a heritage demonstration in 2007. Following the test and evaluation of loaned Navy F-4Bs, the first production F-4C was delivered to U.S. Air Force in November 1963. The 4453rd Combat Crew Training Wing at MacDill AFB was the first unit to receive the Phantoms.