I think it was about 1990 we went to Kailua beach (Oahu) to wave at the
last active group of F-4s take off from Kaneohe MCAS, fly past the
beach and take off for the mainland, where the last active US F-4s were
retired. We had many friends in that group. It was sad to see the
last F-4s fly off to the sunset into the sunrise, but it was way cool
too, because the pilots flew along the beach to see those of us waving
them off. I am very glad I was able to be there.
F-4s were a solid craft.
I am not at all surprised that some are still on active duty in the RTW.
Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
October 20, 2017 at 8:13 AM
I was watching NipTV news the other evening (they're readers are quite
cute) and they had this story on about a CH-53 making a crash landing,
and it later burned, 300m from the nearest dwelling, out in the middle
of a field. The gummint was all up about it and wanting various
changes in US military behavior. Whatever. Then the next story was
about an F-4 that caught fire on the ramp as the pilots were lighting
it off, or doing a run-up or something, the pilots managed to get out
before the thing went up in flames. 2 things about these reports
intrigued me -- the first was the irony in that no one in gummint was
up in arms about the F-4 burning up, and second that the Nip Air Force
was still flying F-4s. How cool is that? Those things must be at
least 40-50 years old. I guess they are still newer than the
Brirriant Reader's fighter force so they could prevail in dogfights
against the NORKs.
--FT
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