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Collings Foundation's F-4 Phantom Flies Again!
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2017
- As of 10:50 a.m. the Collings Foundation's F-4 Phantom is the only flying Phantom on the continent! First flight since November 16, 2011. Congrats to the Collings Foundation - Thanks to Christopher A. Ebdon for the video and Erik Johnson for the editing! 1965 McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II 65-0749 - N749CF, painted as Col. Robin Olds' Operation Bolo MiG killer 66-7680, Collings Foundation's Vietnam Memorial Flight at EFD
Great to hear a Phantom again other than on old RUclips videos. I was a Navy J bird guy by the time I got out in 71, but I'll take this one. Thanks, Collings Foundation!
Ditto! Me too, VF-102 Diamondbacks at NAS Oceana, with 50% of our time on "The Boat = The U.S.S. Independence "
Ditto V-74 J&S
I spent 20 years of my life being beat up by those beasts. I still have the scars. WCS specialist, radar, bombing system, gun sight and missile firing. Including 18 months Vietnam, Danang RVN.
I love the F4, I have 15 years on them as a weapons loader on the F4C/E/G. The patch on D-Day was also at George AFB, CA. The 20th TFS Silver Lobos. This unit was training German pilots.
AH, Now that's better, Mr. Mac's Mig killer lives on!
Beautiful plane! 👍
Gotta fet more Phantoms flying again.
This is another elegant lady that must be kept alive.
Japan has a few they are still flying in their shows and I would love to see them make a US show tour.
The think that would be a great campaign to get started... Get Phantom show teams here to the States.
My father flew that aircraft in Vietnam. His custom license plate represents this specifically! He loves this airframe above all others he was tasked to fly. Including the F-15! When asked why, "that's the one that got him home."
When asked if he'd enjoy a flight at his current age(81)...."oh God yeah."
I'm currently selling almost all I own make this happen. And proudly so.
I can't wait for their current issues for ride along's to be cleared for my V-Vet father to feel that one more time!
Good to see an F4. Former US Airforce 461 I saw a lot of these flying when I was in Kunsan Korea in 70-71. Didn't have to look up to see what was coming. They had a sound of their own.
I was a 461 and later a 464 that spent many years supporting the Phantom at Udorn & Ubon Thailand, MacDill FL and Moody GA. At Moody my EOD shop was next to the F-4 Flight Simulator and one of my guys had a friend that worked there and he would let us fly when they weren't busy, that was one of the best video games I ever played lol.
@@eodmax I'm sure that was a fun video game. The fun we had back in the day!
@@funk7875 I always thought the Phantom was a great aircraft, just before I left MacDill we were in the process of converting to F-16s and before I left Moody we were converting to F-16s. I went to Kadena Okinawa from there where we had F-15s, SR-71 and RF-4s. I retired at port from Okinawa at McChord AFB WA.
@@eodmax I did get to see a SR 71 that made a pit stop in Kunsan Korea. That's a bad ass plane!
They tell everyone no pictures. Of course you always have the one person to ignore that and lost his camera over it. That was in 70 71 when I was there. Left there and was stationed at Eglin for 2 years and called it quits. Regret that now. I know though after being in Pacific I'd be right back. Maybe in not as hospitable surrounding. Kunsan was a vacation when I was there.
@@funk7875 First time I was at Kadena in 70 I worked Ford 1 Load crew in SAC Support 400th MMS(T) we loaded M117s nose to the drivers side on rails down a 40 foot trailer. Back then when the SR-71 took off it taxied straight from its hanger turned at the end of runway and hit it, when I was back in 84-88 it would taxi to end of runway and sit there going through their checklist or whatever. I used to hit Kunsan at least once a year since we couldn't have any nuke trainers by the SOFA with Japan so we would go to Kunsan for our nuke training. I hear a lot of guys say they should have stayed in but it wasn't for everybody I enjoyed my career got to see a lot of the world.
Thank You 😊 D-Day For Your Service to Our Country Sir 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Very cool my dad flew F4’s three tours in Vietnam when I was just a little kid no more then seven or eight years old I remember the planes well looked just like that one I built a model F4 and painted it to look just like the real thing love the F4 super cool looking plane
Wicked sounding aircraft. Those J79s has a serious growl.
saw them alot back in the 90s when i was a kid riding my bicycle in the summer, super cool seeing them doing low passes over me
This plane and the X-15 are principally responsible for me becoming interested in aerospace engineering (them and my Dad being a Rocket Engineer out at Cape Canaveral in the 50's/60's/70's). I had both models hanging from my bedroom ceiling as a young boy in the 60's/'70's. I was good at math and a good athlete and wanted to be a fighter pilot but was told that my vision had to be 20-20 uncorrected to get a pilot contract out of OCS so I switched my plan to AE (a recently retired A.E./C.E. from America's largest defense contractor).
That’s awesome last time I seen one fly was in Marine Corp K bay Hawaii in early 80s
Now this is what they should have done with the f-14.
When they retired it they should have saved some for airshows.
LegitGrantham20 The F-14 is my favorite plane! It deserves to fly again! (what I️ don’t understand is That the F-14 was the replacement for the F-4 but the F-4 was retired 10 years after The F-14)
The F-4 was built in far greater numbers than the F-14.
Production runs -- F-4, almost 5200 planes over the course of 22 years (1958-1980; last Phantom manufactured in Japan)... F-14, 712 planes over the course of 21 years (1970-1991). Same length of production, over seven times as many Phantoms built!
There were just more spares for the F-4 and it was less a complicated machine to service. Neither plane is considered low-maintenance but the F-14 I've been led to believe was more maintenance-intensive which led to a premature retirement after "only" 32 years frontline service (1974-2006). The fact of the matter is the Phantom was around about the same length of time (1960-1992 for most versions, G-models retired 1996) they just decided to convert a chunk of Phantoms to use as target practice for missile development.
There were never as many F-14s preserved for emergency war readiness in the Boneyard as Phantoms. They simply wore out more of those F-14 airframes with the more limited production of the type. There were F-4s retired that had been reconditioned as F-4S or retired early (the F-4Js sold to England in the 1980s) that had plenty of life left in them. The accident rate of the F-14 wasn't worse than the F-4. If anything, the F-4 was the more hazardous of the two types.
You can thank Iran for the lack of air worthy Tomcats
@@MechanizedGhost17 Wrong!
The F-18 mafia and the ship mafia made sure the F-14 was early retired. Oh, and let us not forget Dick Cheney. they wanted the F-14 to go away and never return. Iran has been keeping their aircraft airworthy with no help from the U.S. for decades.
Big bad F4, gotta like.
Phantom's are so fierce looking.
One beautiful bird.
Thank You 😊 Bob Schuyler For Your Service to Our Country Sir 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. All the History Books 📖 and Robin Olds Book 📖 The Legend of a ACE in Operation: Bolo Sir Robin Olds Shot Down One ☝️ MIG-21 and the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing Shot Down a Total of Seven MIG-21s Mr Bob Schuyler 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I can't be 100% sure, however given the tail number it was likely on "the line" when I was a Crew Chief @ Torrejon in the early 1980's with the 613th. TFS. My bird was sadly recycled for metal scrap. :>((
Glad you folks got her back up in the sky where she belongs!
As a 43171-C I was qualified to crew chief an F-4 but, was never assigned to an F-4 squadron!!!😎
Way cool!!!
Very cool!
Only one photograph of it actually flying in the whole video
What a bird! No electronic mambo jambo.Pure skills mandatory!
Mumbo jumbo..
@@RedTail1-1 In what language?
$25,000 per hour of flight costs?
Ok,it’s 2024. Is this Phantom still airworthy and flying?
So, the F-4A being refurbished by the other civilian outfit still hasn't been test flown further than taxi tests on the runway?
Bank loans take awhile to get approved. It takes a bank loan just to pay for the fuel to taxi the F-4.
@@robertcieslak1861 Will they progress flying it?
This beautiful fighter jet served us well during the Yom Kippur war 🇮🇱
Wonder what it costs per hour to fly
About $12k an hour with maintenence
Not your average war bird!
No, it rolled. It did not fly in this video. Wrong title but cool F-4.
A $Zillion for a flyable F4 and 25 cents for a hone video in VERTICAL orientation. Jesus F. Christ.