"Bolter, bolter, bolter" An F4 Phantom takes off from USS Midway (CV-41) after failing to catch the wire. May 22, 1972 off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin
Silver Kite 211 by Philip E West – 10th May 1972. Lt. Cdr. Curtis ‘Curt’ Dose together with his RIO, Lt. Cdr. Jim McDevitt line up their F-4J Phantom II, prior to landing on the USS Constellation following their first successful target combat air patrol of the day. During this mission, NG211 “Silver Kite 211” shot down a MiG-21F with an AIM-9 sidewinder missile, after an ultra-low level supersonic flight over the North Vietnamese airfield of Kep, Northeast of Hanoi.
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