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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery, Troisième partie: la vengeance!
- Thread starter SynixMan
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Will this job be assumed by VUP squadrons?
That is the stated intent.
No shit......you leave NUW for a few weeks for airline duty and this is what they come up with?
I wish I'd been around. No particular connection to the plane, but I guess sort of via my dad, who would have been sad to see prop planes stop flying at whidbey. Don't know how many times I pointed to that one spot that perpetually always had one stacked next to the main road, and told my boys "that's the spy plane"
The USAF bought just over 500 RF-4C recon Phantoms which entered service starting in 1964 -- just in time for the Vietnam War. I don't know the statistics, but I'm sure plenty were lost in that conflict. The RF-4C is often described as unarmed, which was mostly true, but the aircraft had a secondary mission of nuclear strike with a single B28 bomb on the centerline.
The Marines took advantage of all that Air Force development money to buy 46 RF-4Bs. After the Navy RF-8G photo Crusaders were gone, Marine dets operated from Midway and Coral Sea for a few years.
The Marines took advantage of all that Air Force development money to buy 46 RF-4Bs. After the Navy RF-8G photo Crusaders were gone, Marine dets operated from Midway and Coral Sea for a few years.