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Author: | flightsimer [ Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:03 pm ] |
Post subject: | Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
Well since we have finally gotten our plane home, I am going to be creating a thread for its restoration. Hopefully every so often, I will be able to update it with pictures. It will probably be over a years time as thats how long it took us to complete our F-15A. Here are some pictures as I promised in the other thread... Jim Ackley and I powered washed the entire plane and wing today after it was off the trailers. Before washing After washing Before Washing After washing Up close In this pic is three out of our four Vietnam era aircraft |
Author: | peter [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:35 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
Looking forward to the updates! She looks a bit faded but otherwise in good shape. How complete are the cockpits or are they stripped?? |
Author: | flightsimer [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:49 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
peter wrote: Looking forward to the updates! She looks a bit faded but otherwise in good shape. How complete are the cockpits or are they stripped?? She is actually in really good condition for sitting since the late 80s, early 90s. There are only three major things that I know of. One is the rear cockpit canopy. During a severe windstorm, the wind was ale to get under it and rip off the canopy. During the same storm, the wingtip off the left wing (IIRC), was also ripped off and was thrown some 200 yards away. So we need to figure out how to mount the wingtip back on. And the last damage would be on the top fuselage, just in front of the fertile, there is a hole, which cold have been made by the wingtip as it ripped off and struck the fuselage. Otherwise, it seems to be in really good condition. I can't wait until we get it back on the wing though so we can get it looking like a plane once again. From what I saw of the rear cockpit, all of the instruments were removed during demilling. We have the seats though, minus the rockets. We do have the gunsight at least. I will be able to tell you more though once we get into the cockpits. |
Author: | viking73 [ Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:55 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
Thanks for the photos, please keep them coming Did you guys get to keep the engines for this bird? It looks like they were still in the aircraft before you moved it. -Derek |
Author: | peter [ Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:35 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
Instruments can be picked up readily enough over time as long as you ahve seats and most of the other bits she will be returned to her glory before long.. well done! |
Author: | flightsimer [ Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:22 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
viking73 wrote: Thanks for the photos, please keep them coming Did you guys get to keep the engines for this bird? It looks like they were still in the aircraft before you moved it. -Derek No, they would not allow us to keep an engine as components are still being used today. However, we did get to keep both afterburner cans, which they wanted to keep, but we were able to get them as part of the sale. Also, I forgot to put in my first post... A VERY VERY BIG thanks goes out to World Wide Aircraft Recovery who separated the fuselage and wing for us, all of the people from the USAF Museum who helped with equipment and support and to all of our donors who made this project financially possible. Without you guys, this wouldn't have been possible! |
Author: | TAdan [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:15 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
Congrats on getting your Phantom home. It does look to be in very nice shape. I look forward to following its restoration. |
Author: | wingsandrotorspilot [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 2:15 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
Sent the disc with the Tech Orders to you this morning. Good luck, and let me know if you need anything else. Pat |
Author: | ffuries [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:06 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
My father (MSgt USAF Retired, 22 Feb 43-24 Sep 11) spent the majority of his AF career working on F-4's, everytime I see one I think of him. He loved that aircraft and knew it backwards and forwards. The F-4 will always have a special place in my heart, because of him! With all the QF-4 drones flying around here at Tyndall AFB, everytime I see one in the pattern, I wonder if it is one of his old birds. Don't know how the AF is with giving out parts and pieces of aircraft but there are the remains of 3 drones and an ABDR frame parked at Eglin Aux Field 3 (Duke Field) Florida. viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28086 He was buried with his Phantom-Phixer shirt neatly folded and tucked away with him, least it distract from his dress blues. |
Author: | peter [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:28 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
That is a shame she lost her engines but good that you at least get to keep the burner cans. They always look odd with them missing..... |
Author: | flightsimer [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:53 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
wingsandrotorspilot wrote: Sent the disc with the Tech Orders to you this morning. Good luck, and let me know if you need anything else. Pat Thank you very much! ffuries wrote: My father (MSgt USAF Retired, 22 Feb 43-24 Sep 11) spent the majority of his AF career working on F-4's, everytime I see one I think of him. He loved that aircraft and knew it backwards and forwards. The F-4 will always have a special place in my heart, because of him! With all the QF-4 drones flying around here at Tyndall AFB, everytime I see one in the pattern, I wonder if it is one of his old birds. you would be surprised how small the aviation world is. When we got our T-28B from the state of alaska in the mid 2000s, after we got it back, we discovered that one of our members had done most of his training in that very plane while it was still with the Navy.Don't know how the AF is with giving out parts and pieces of aircraft but there are the remains of 3 drones and an ABDR frame parked at Eglin Aux Field 3 (Duke Field) Florida. http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... =3&t=28086 He was buried with his Phantom-Phixer shirt neatly folded and tucked away with him, least it distract from his dress blues. I was wondering if they still had any f-4 drones left. Do you know how many roughly there are? peter wrote: That is a shame she lost her engines but good that you at least get to keep the burner cans. They always look odd with them missing..... Ya, we don't have them for our F-15A and it looks extremely weird and incomplete without them. We are trying to find a pair, but still no luck. |
Author: | ffuries [ Sun Sep 02, 2012 4:25 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
Off hand no, I know they don't get shot down as much as the QF-106's did, nor do they seem to crash as much. I'll try and do a drive by of the flight line is a few days and see how many of the bent wing broken tails I can see out there. |
Author: | libra66 [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 12:22 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
Yeah. Ill be taking some better pics in the next few weeks and posting them here. Hopefully some pics from gigs. |
Author: | flightsimer [ Sun May 24, 2015 8:47 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Restoration of F-4C Phantom AF 64-0763 |
The guy who has sort of taken over the restoration as he worked on them in the AF has also been working on smaller parts of it. He has restored the Martin Baker Ejection Seat and will more than likely be making a display out of it for in the museum. He is currently working on the tail cone which houses the parachute pack and getting it ready to be mounted back onto the plane. |
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