F-4 Phantom Jet Sweepstakes

[APG85]

What the heck?

http://phantomjetsweepstakes.com/

[CAPFlyer]

Rules -

http://phantomjetsweepstakes.com/tcs.php

It's a non-flyable F-4 at Alamagordo, NM and the "winner" is responsible for paying to move it.

[Ryan Keough]

And all you have to do is buy a couple of hundred bucks worth of t-shirts and other junk to be considered to win!

[Fouga23]

And it has it's wingspar cut. If you look closely you can see a large white box underneath the aircraft supporting it. It would fall apart without the box!

[Randy Haskin]

Any parts on there the Collings guys might be able to use on their D model?

[RickH]

No, fraid not. This aircraft was pieced together from a thoroughly gutted cut airframe. It is actually wearing main tires that were flown on 749. The original tires were maypops of the first order.

As stated previously this jet became the poster child for why all fighter airframes must now be reduced to pieces 1" sqare.

[Shay]

As stated previously this jet became the poster child for why all fighter airframes must now be reduced to pieces 1" sqare.

Not necessarily true.

64-0747 made it out less than 6 months ago. Cut up a little but more or less intact.



Shay
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[Shay]

Also not to mention a AFRES F-16 and B-47 Fuselage made it out intact. And 2 or 3 RF-84Ks made it out mostly intact (little beat up)

Shay
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[RickH]

The only reason those got away was that they were a local dispersal. The guy who had the contract on the F-4s had a machine breakdown and the local guys said get it out of here. That won't happen in Tucson.

[tom d. friedman]

as the old saying goes... if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is!!!

[shakinmain5]

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17353_451349070272_4288842_n.jpg?oh=eb4d7d9be9414679dbc9a23321a47470&oe=5A0EC291

So am I to assume this is an old pic of 64-0747?

[Jesse C.]

Wow! A ten year old thread resurrection!

[Dan K]

Wow! A ten year old thread resurrection!