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It's one of early F-4A variants (only 18 built) with smaller radome and RIO canopy. See link for better sideview where that is very noticeable.
Download Hi-Res 03/22/2010
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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Rick Shammel signals the shooter as an F/A-18F Super Hornet from the Strike Fighter Squadron 122 launches from the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Pacific Ocean, March 17, 2010. The Stennis is under way off the coast of Southern California for fleet replacement squadron carrier qualifications. Shammel is an aviation structural mechanic. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Walter M. Wayman
100319-N-4774B-381 PACIFIC OCEAN (March 19, 2010) An SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the Red Lions of Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron (HS) 15, flies by the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) while supporting a vertical replenishment with the Military Sealift Command fast-combat support ship USNS Rainier (T-AOE 7). Bunker Hill is supporting Southern Seas 2010, a U.S. Southern Command-directed operation that provides U.S. and international forces the opportunity to operate in a multi-national environment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Barker/Released)
100319-N-6538W-281 PACIFIC OCEAN (March 19, 2010) Capt. Jacob Schwinghammer, from Tampa, Fla., sits in the cockpit of an F/A-18C Hornet from the Raiders of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 125 prior to flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is underway off the coast of Southern California conducting fleet replacement squadron carrier qualifications. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Walter M. Wayman/Released)
VF-102 Phantom in tension on the America, I believe.
Nice shot, but looks more like Indy in late 70s or early 80s based on superstructure (def not USA/CV-66) and paint scheme carried by 102 and 33 prior to transition to Tomcats.
:icon_cry: :icon_cry: :icon_cryi: :cry_125: ... ... :icon_cry: :icon_cry: :icon_cryi :cry_125:Last operational F-4 trap.
...and what are those things in the background?
VF-102 Phantom in tension on the America, I believe.
Wow! I had totally forgotten about the whale's folding tail. (visible in the background, on the far right of the pic.)
Sure that's not an S-3?
Yikes! Is there an (quack) optometrist in the house? This week's check sez I'm still 20-20 or better, uncorrected. (although near vision sucks) Maybe something else is slowing? Nah! My wife thinks not!
Regardless, A-3 or S-3, folding tails are weird... and for me ,mostly forgotten.
I was on Carl Vinson in the IO around 1987 or 88 playing VP Liasion Officer for a big exercise. They had an A-3 parked like this one behind the cat 1 JBD. An F-14 went to burner for launch and the cat didn't fire. It took them over 10 mins to safe the cat and the F-14 sat there in burner the whole time. The nose of the A-3 looked like a plastic model someone had held a lighter to.... They talked about just pushing it over the side but then decided to take it back to CONUS to strip it for parts.VF-102 Phantom in tension on the America, I believe.
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