The first time here, you see flak bursting around your aircraft and uh not like that you’re gonna think, this is for real.” ...

is the most produced American supersonic military aircraft ever. F-4 Phantom II: Flying Strong and Setting Records Taking flight in 1958, the Phantom was an envelope-pusher, setting 16 different ...

On May 27, 1958, the skies over St. Louis witnessed a historic moment as the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II made its maiden ...

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a legendary aircraft — an icon of the Vietnam War and the archetype of the third-generation jet fighter designs that entered service in the 1960s.

Honeoye Falls, N.Y. — The annual F-4 Cockpit Open House honors military veterans who flew, crewed, maintained, or were involved in the F-4 Phantom Fighter aircraft. The event allowed veterans to ...

such as the F-4 Phantom II Society. Out of the hundreds of fighter jets built since 1945, why all the affection for this one? Perhaps it’s a bit of baby boomer nostalgia for an aircraft that ...

The F-4 Phantom II began flying fleet defense for the U.S ... The two-seat, twin-engine tactical jet fighter bomber was built by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (later the McDonnell-Douglas ...

The final F-4 Phantom appearance at an airshow ... “against” an F-35 Lightning II. During that sortie, the Vietnam-era remotely piloted aircraft was shot at by the F-35 Lightning II with ...

McDonnell Aircraft Corporation's F-4 Phantom was quickly becoming the do-all fighter by the mid 1960s, able to lug thousands of pounds of bombs on one mission and then strictly air-to-air missiles ...

The F-4 Phantom II first flew in 1958 ... air defense suppression aircraft, and reconnaissance aircraft. The F-4 was large enough to carry both air-to-air missiles and bombs on the same mission ...

Pittman, a Jefferson City veteran, exits the cockpit of the first F-4D Phantom II aircraft to arrive at RAF ... (Statue of Liberty Wing) on July 4, 1954. This resulted in the wing becoming the ...