God bless, Mister.

Them angel wings wasn't made of feathers

Welcome home.

I was there. Ordinance on F4s. My crew might have loaded that bomb. Saving GIs was all we really cared about. Good story to hear.

@badwizard1312. Thank you and welcome home!

You can fly it again. Not the varient you flew, but the F-4E Phantom. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7l5os9mnNzHdX0.html

I love the F-4........one of my all time favorite airplanes !!!!

damm right it's a beauty.

I also thought they were really cool looking. We had them here for our Oregon Air Guard and you could always see them coming far off with the dark exhaust. I love the growl of the engines.

I’m right there with you. Beautiful and sexy!

It looked like it would kill you just sitting still. It was definitely a fighter pilot's aircraft.

This is beauty--be damned the nay-saying beholders! I spent summers as a Civil Air Patrol cadet crawling through them as they were being repaired at Hill AFB.

cool! part of history

Then he went to prison.

It's a shame that such an impressive warrior became a Congressional criminal.

THEN GOT HOME WENT TO POLITICS AND ENDED UP IN JAIL!!! HELLVA GUY!!

@@waynetaylor8082 He forgot who he was and succumbed to greed...It takes nothing away from his military accomplishments, but sadly it's what he'll be remembered for...

My dad was a gunner on the USS Hank (DD-702) in the early 60's. Sadly he saw an F-4 Phantom crash while attempting a night landing on the USS Saratoga. I don't think most people realize what dangerous work Naval aviation is for both pilots and crew, even during peace time. Nothing but respect for the brave men and women who do that job.

I was on Sara in 71 med. Taken off to America when Sara settled on the ocean floor in Athens harbor. Before Sara we were on Forrestal for 6 months. We flew Ea-6as.

I was on the Kaskaskia an oiler that went to the Med with the saratoga

I dont get people who says that jet is "ugly".

1970 or 1971, I deployed on the Sara from the Wasp in HS-5. 0:15 We loved night ops watching the blast deflector turn the color of the sun from the jets on the cat. We looked at each other and said, This is the real Navy.”

Yes 💯 it's mean looking and armed to the teeth

4 real 👍😉🤠

It's a beautiful plane!

Especially with the shark face on the nose.

Totally

Rest In Peace Mr. Vinson USAF 1968-72 F-4C Crew Chief

I have heard that from a few Marine . USAF 69-73 SEA 71-72

Mine too, over 150 missions in Vietnam. He left us in 2017.

How many innocent people were killed in your father's missions in Vietnam?

@@davidboss8622 How many innocent people were killed in your father's missions in Vietnam?

@@rayaninc.electronicindustr1402 more important how many innocent people did the VC kill ? how many innocent civilians, US and allied military were kept from being killed by the VC from us using our air power ? 555th TFS

COOL !!!

I was in vf-111 1974

last of the gunfighters

I saw the Thunderbirds in the F4 at Altus Air Force Base where I was stationed. The show was the military version. These planes literally shook the Earth at low altitude in AB. Never seen anything like it since. It was in 72 or 73 I think. Then they went to the T-38! Great airplane but not the raw power of the F4.

You got that right !!

I saw them perform at abbotsford British Columbia in 1970 ,making passes about a foot over the crowd.......AWESOME!!!!! , A MACH 2+ bomb truck...

ABSOLUTELYYYYY (DAVE FROM ITALY!)

Yep 😈🪖⚡⚡🖤

My dad flew one in Vietnam. He left us in 2017..

F4 navy

So sorry

@@user-zc8gn8oe3x the navy had the best pilots and most dangerous missions... God bless you ❤️🙏☮️🌎

@@davidboss8622 so sorry for your loss buddy from UK

My new bride and I lived in Va Beach, just off Oceana NAS. She quickly became accustomed to the beautiful sound of the F-4 as they passed overhead. She was so suprised that she could see the names of the pilot and RIO on the side of the cockpit. Fast forward 30 years, now living in Tucson, AZ. When the Phantoms flew overhead on their last flight enroute to the aircraft graveyard outside Davis Monthan AFB we could hear the unmistakable roar of the GE J-79 engines overhead. We always stepped outside to see the beautiful bird for one last time.

@@philcutler1123You must have been there about the same time as me….’73-‘76. LOVED the F4! My next door neighbor was an F4 pilot…took me over to show his plane and had me sit in it. Incredible badass aircraft!

@@6Sally5 Yup, VF-11 Red Rippers, Nov 72-Nov 75

Jet noise…..the sound of freedom!

@@pauladams8475 Live free or die!🗽👍

Wonderful. That would have been so cool long hot summer afternoons and everyone relaxed and chilled, jets booming around bliss.

make sure you wake up

Museum pieces now. They used the last of them up by rigging them as drones and shooting them down. SAD.

bla, bla, bla. ya ever had to work on one of those pigs?? it sucks!!!

@@tzackaria7 No. I never had to work on one. My AFSC was not a crew chief. I was K-9 Security Forces.

​@@tzackaria7what's the most serviceable fighter/bomber you've worked on?

@tzackaria7 They must be terrible, since after 70 years they are still flying in a number of air forces around the world.

@@herbodiferous7751 F100, the more technical they become the harder they are to service

Totally agree. It was a scary beast.

The manliest looking fighter plane in history.

Like Bruce Lee, with his, “Don’t make me come over there” look.

😢 I'm very sorry for your loss 😞🙏 and God bless him

Mine too

The only aircraft that even came close to the CF 105 Arrow

And my all time favourite Stones song. 😎🇨🇦🎸

Same

Big and beefy but often without cannons - surely the F15 is/was far superior? Personal choice, I know.

Paint it Black is another one.

what's going on.

@@allen480 yeah I hadn't thought of that one. Spot on

@@user-jm2eq9nk1e yep totally right on

CCR had a couple, there are so many from that era, we had good music during the hippy psyops days.

I spent a couple of months at George. Miserable place but the chow was good and it's close enough to LA

I was stationed at George AFB, 1973. There was F4D's, F4E's and F105s. Saw a U2 make a low pass over the run way. In Victorville Ca there was a river with trees on your way to the front gate. Today there is nothing there but rock and sand.

@@JC-yp6vd I pass through there sometimes. It's sad to see what a beautiful place it was and to see it now is heart wrenching. Most of the old housing is gone. What's left now is vandalized and in ruins. The baseball fields are now used for storing rubble.

True, like somebody with a 20 pound sledge hammer hitting the deck.

The "Connie" was an absolutely beautiful aircraft. Those FIRE breathing radials were amazing to watch. I heard a former pilot say during a documentary interview that he was told by the tower on takeoff that his engines were on fire. HE said back to the controller ... I hope so, we'd be in trouble if they weren't. I got a laugh out of that reply.

@@jeffmontgomery8068 The USAF museum at WPAFB Dayton, OH has all these planes; stand next to an F4 and just sense how HUGE these planes were. Amazing.

Great list, I'd include the RA-5 VIGILANTY.

Agreed , both very Menacing looking aircraft.

Great choices!!!

Me too! I get goosebumps just hearing F4 phantom

I was a very young Third Mate on a Victory Ship anchored off Vung Tau, Vietnam awaiting passage up river to Saigon in 1966. I was on the flying bridge 60 feet above the water and saw a Phantom approaching at high speed. He was right over the water and I was looking down at him as he approached the ship and it was totally silent as he was ahead of the sound. As he passed us, he pulled up and did a barrel roll and then pulled vertical and hit his after burners and sped skyward. Then the sound reached us and came with a huge roar! That happened almost 57 years ago and I remember it like it happened yesterday. What a remarkable aircraft!

Yep...light the pipes and go verticle!

Thank you for your service. ❤❤❤

I'm a Canadian and I think America never stopped being marvelous, most generous country on earth and the reason my country is so great is the inspiration we take from our next door neighbor 🇺🇸🇨🇦⭐⭐⭐

@@BradFalck-mn3pc Thanks and much appreciation and respect to you sir.

We were pulling into SD on the Connie one morning in the mid-80s. There was a Marine F4 putting on a show. After about a half dozen passes, the air boss got us lined up on the aft end of the landing area. On his cue, we all mooned him. Good times, he'd probably get court-martialed for that now.

Thinking that same thing when I saw him at the beginning of the clip. I wonder if he got one of those last minute Trump/Giuliani $2 Million dollar pardons?

The AB of a f 105 was nothing short of a pure biga$$ rocket motor on max burn!!! lol Loved to watch 105s and 4s go ab at night. That will always make your heart go thump!!

​@@MrWaalkmanI believe he was pardoned at some point

105s seemed fast just sitting on the ramp

Me too... I was sorry he passed over to the dark side of politics.

@richsmith7200 🤣🤣

Truly a BEAST !!!

F-4 Ordnance USMC 1980-1988. VMFA-333 Trip Trey Fighting Shamrocks

My father was an F-4 mechanic at Miramar, 1962 to 1965.

Worked as a member of a 4 man armament load crew at George AFB with Norm, Mac, and Don arming F-4s.

I watched them in vn drop their load and head for the stars

What a galaxy above most people's thinking to include the people that made every bit of it happen...I worked on mostly F4s and always appreciated their versatility...cannons, bombs, cameras..TAC... thank you for your excellent comment...

I was only USS Coral Sea 1974

God bless you for your service 🙏🇺🇸❤️

@@user-ex4si2md6r The German Air Forcce called it "The Iron Pig "

Maybe AC/DC thunderstruck ✌️🤣

Superb

I can remember a British Phantom waiting to take off from RAF Wyton in the late 70s? They used the shut the road during take offs as the rear of the planes were about two hundred metres away.All the people got out and watched . As the noise went into a crescendo, two flaps opened at the tail and water ? Shot out .Then the ground shook as it let go of the brakes and dissapeared. Very impressed.

Like you Paul I sat in the cockpit of an F-4 while in college. With all its intimidating gauges and switches I came away dejected thinking I could never fly one. Two years later I was flying them.

Don't mistake confidence for lack of fear. Today, we have fighters that are so expensive to fly that pilots don't get to fly them very much. Only the Naval and Marine pilots fly a lot and only when they are at sea, because there are no training days when you are on station at sea and there are always planes in the air. Back in the day, pilots flew 4 or 5 times a week and in my Harrier Squadron, because of the super high availability of the Harrier, pilots got huge amounts of time (the Harrier AV8-B was called out by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf as being incredible performers during the Gulf war, and the AF pilots were envious of the amount of Sorties flown by the Harriers.) Anyway, when you fly a lot, you gain confidence, but if you are smart, you always know that you are a few fractions of a second from it all going to hell in a handbasket. (The AV8-B was not in service in my day. We flew the AV8A at that time, and overall, it two was a very reliable aircraft and you could get a lot of hours if you were in a Harrier squadron.)

Yep, a Marine Major once said ( there are old pilots, bold pilots, but few old bold pilots). Navy and Marine pilots that fly off and on aircraft carriers do in all conditions. I had time on the flt deck of 4 carriers. The most dangerous 3 acres on earth, peace or war.

Amen.

@@jameseast7966 When I was with VMFA-451, as all Marine Corp squadrons do, we deployed for a cruise aboard the Forrestal and I saw first had how remarkable air operations were, and during the cruise, a Navy F4 hit the round down during a recovery on heavy seas. Both crew members were lost. The RIO ejected over the deck with with the AC banked about 70 degrees and he hit the tail of an F4 on the side of the angle deck. The pilot appears to have gone down with the AC. No deck personnel were injured, but it shows how dangerous carrier ops can be, and it shows that you should never be where you are not supposed to be. I was assigned a collateral duty to assist Naval personell in installing CCTV to the living spaces and because of this, I had almost complete access to the entire ship and I can't tell you how much respect I gained from seeing the innermost functioning of a fleet carrier. It was remarkable, and I gained a huge amount of respect for the mission the sailors perform. Hats off to them. Every day is a work day for them and for many of them, every day is dangerous. I respect them more than a lot of special services people that only train, train, train, and when they are not training, they are bragging and strutting.