WOW, now these are photos you don't see too often if ever..............taken of USN escort fighters from Russian planes by Russian crews!!! Cool!!
Thanks for posting.....more please!!
An F-4S Phantom II aircraft from Fighter Squadron VF-161 is catapulted from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41), 11/1/1981. photo by PH1 David C. Maclean
As Israel faced the prospect of defeat in the opening days of the 1973 October War, a squadron of IDF/AF F-4 Phantoms was loaded with 13 20-kiloton nuclear bombs for the “ultimate” strike. It is widely believed that this specter of nuclear escalation led the Nixon administration to act firm and fast to provide Israel with the most massive weapons airlift (Operation Nickel Grass) in history.
With its beautiful arrowhead marking on roundel is XV475 Phantom FGR.2 from No.17 Squadron RAF which has just landed at Luqa Malta on 23rd October 1972
Canadair CF-116A Freedom Fighter and CF-116B, Canadian Forces, in formation with two US Marine Corps McDonnell F-4N Phantom II (BuNos. 151514 and 152977)
Arriving at Wisley airfield, Royal Navy's entry into the 1969 Daily Mail UK Air Race. Attempting to transfer his Observer to the waiting Westland Wessex helicopter as quickly as possible, this F-4 Phantom II pilot suffered a brake fire and a tyre blow-out on landing.
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