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Two USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs collided in mid-air over the town of El Buste, Spain, about 30 miles from the joint US-Spanish base at Zaragoza. F-4D-28-MC, 65-0708 , c/n 1753, [ 103 ] and F-4D-31-MC, 66-7651 , c/n 2231, [ 116 ] both of the 23d Tactical Fighter Squadron , 36th Tactical Fighter Wing , were lost, [ 104 ] and all four ...
F-4 Phantom II flight demonstration video. The J79 had a reduced time lag between the pilot advancing the throttle, from idle to maximum thrust, and the engine producing maximum thrust compared to earlier engines. While landing on USS Midway (CV-41) John Chesire's tailhook missed the arresting gear as he (mistakenly) reduced thrust to idle.
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II [6] San Bernardino Mountains. California During maneuvers with his Air Force Reserve unit [6] Eduardo Mata: Mexico 1995 Orchestra conductor and composer. Piper Aerostar: Toluca, Mexico Aircraft crashed after entering a stall while attempting emergency landing [77] Enrico Mattei: Italy 1962 President of Eni
On Sunday, June 6, 1971, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 serving as Flight 706 departed Los Angeles just after 6 p.m. en route to Seattle as a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the United States Marine Corps was approaching Marine Corps Air Station El Toro near Irvine at the end of a flight from Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada.
Toei Animation Studios produced an animation story of the F-4 crash titled "Mamma, Poppa Bye Bye" in 1984. It was directed by Hiroshi Shitara with the story written by Katsumoto Saotome. The anime covered the life of the two young victims of the crash from the early summer of 1977 to their deaths on the night of 27 September 1977.
The F-4C variant of the Phantom II was among the aircraft evaluated by the RAAF in 1963 as part of the project to replace its English Electric Canberra bombers. The F-111 was selected, but when that project was delayed in the late 1960s due to long-running technical faults with the aircraft, the RAAF determined that the F-4E Phantom II would be ...
Memories of the Phantom. If there were a perfect match for me to make my fighter dream come true, it had to be the Phantom. It first flew in 1958, a year before I was born, and was truly the ...
The 1974 Norfolk mid-air collision happened on 9 August 1974 at Fordham Fen, Norfolk, England when a Royal Air Force McDonnell-Douglas F-4M Phantom FGR.2 of No. 41 Squadron RAF (41 Sqn) collided with a Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee crop spraying aircraft. [1] All three aviators were killed: the pilot and navigator of the Phantom and the pilot of the ...