A veteran of several foreign wars has taken it's final manned flight today. Some of you USAF/USMC/NAVY types may have served alongside the old girl A toast may be in order

 

Proof that with enough thrust, even a brick can fly!

 

So no one anywhere is flying these any longer?

 

Robert S. McNamara must be rolling over in his grave and very sad today.

Gary

 

I believe a few are but other than a privately owned one or two the vast majority have been turned into target drones for the new jets to try and shoot down Today was the last manned flights by the USAF pilots with a ceremony at Holliman AF base.

 

Saw them every day in 1969 overhead as they headed out from Bien Hoa Rwy 27, I believe, with AB full tilt!

 

there may be an executive over on the other site who was a BSG/RIO on F-4's about that time Maybe he waved at you

 

No one needs a gun system on a fighter...

-- Chuck

 

The LOUDEST jets I've ever witnessed. Afterburners are awesome. I've never witnessed the SR-71 Blackbird taking off. Ppl tell me that one is the loudest jet.

 

I sat int the cockpit of a SR-71 once.
OK, it was only the cockpit, the rest of the plane was buried at the end of the runway where it couldn't make takeoff. But it was still cool.