Tagged: RF-4B

Air National Guard / bombers / fighters / Marines / military / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy / Viet Nam

November 25, 2016

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II Set to Retire From U.S. Military Service

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is one of those rare breeds of aircraft design that has served with the U.S. military for over half a century. The first flight of a prototype occurred on May 27, 1958. In...

Formation Flying / museums / U.S. Marines

May 17, 2016

The Disestablishment and a Brief History of the VMAQT-1 Banshees

Oxford Dictionary defines the word “disestablish” as: dis·es·tab·lish, [disəˈstabliSH] vb. “deprive (an organization, especially a country’s national church) of its official status.” In military aviation, a disestablishment likely means that the squadron’s current operations, staffing, equipment and/or mission has...

fighters / Marines / military / navy / post

May 30, 2012

Bringing back 1981

She once felt the wind rushing against her airframe as she was thrown with a controlled violence into the blues skies of the Pacific Ocean, off of the USS Midway CV-41. Number 1981 was a McDonald Douglas RF-4B Phantom...