#f-4m phantom

Royal Air Force F-4 Phantom in a vertical ascent

Monday Morning- Fights on

McDonnell Douglas Phantom F-4M XT852, the first Phantom in RAF colours, takes off at the McDonnell Douglas factory in St. Louis, MO for a test flight, 17 February 1967. (UK Air Ministry, Photographic and Reproductions Branch IWM)

F4M in early ground attack days with 6 and 54 Sqns. Later on, we carried out self illuminated night ground attack. Never were post flight beers more welcome.

RAF Phantom 29 Squadron

The first RAF F-4M which was actually a YF4M- despite surviving for many years it was flown ? To the military base at West Freugh and dumped for many years then scrapped - it was placed in a skip sent to a Manchester metal yard which then sold the metal onto China

The Maintenance Unit at RAF Aldergrove. In the foreground, F4M of 6 Sqn. My first F4 unit, and further back, F4K of 892 NAS, my second posting on the type.

F-4 Phantom deploying the braking parachute prior to landing.

These are UK F-4s and are landings at Ft. Stanley, Falkland Islands. After the war ended in 1982, the runway was too short for a Phantom. They even used AM2 aluminum mats to extend the runway, purchased from the USMC