Flying The Spook.

Jon Rose · Post by **Jon Rose** » 18 Dec 2006, 19:39

Need I Say More?

Enjoy.

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 18 Dec 2006, 20:32

He I allways liked the F4. Its one MEAN looking aeroplane

Motormouse · Post by **Motormouse** » 20 Dec 2006, 09:35

Nice shots, but you'd better have the centreline tank empty while doing high 'alpha' manoevres..the 'Tomb' (only the yanks called it 'Spook';
<------------'cos of this little guy ) would and could drop into a flat spin if it wasn't...

ttfn

Pete

Chris Sykes · Post by **Chris Sykes** » 20 Dec 2006, 14:15

i thought it was the greeks that had that guy on the tasil of one of their R versions???

igorski · Post by **igorski** » 20 Dec 2006, 15:29

Chris, the RN had one on a fin at one point, it was a UK varient of the 'spook' logo, where the lil guy had a Union Jack waistcoat on!

Chris Sykes · Post by **Chris Sykes** » 20 Dec 2006, 15:30

ah i didnt know......ive seen the greek one at waddo this year but no others

igorski · Post by **igorski** » 20 Dec 2006, 15:33

not saying there wasnt a greek one too, just saying that there was an RN one

Motormouse · Post by **Motormouse** » 20 Dec 2006, 15:56

The 'Spook' was/is McDonnells' & USAF official logo for the F4 programme,
like the little 'hornet' logo for the F/A-18.

Each F4 user was encouraged to modify it and use it for all F4 related things, the little guy would pop up anywhere, and when I worked on the Phantom overhaul section, we had our own versions as sticker-zaps which
were put in various places around each jet towards the end of the overhaul

ttfn

Pete

Chris Trott · Post by **Chris Trott** » 20 Dec 2006, 16:45

"Tagging" has always been plentiful in the services. Some of the more prominent examples have been a Vulcan B.2 that attended a SAC exercise returning in the colors of the 2nd Bomb Wing (which flies B-52s) complete with US roundels (instead of the stars-and-bars) and the SAC sash just behind the cockpit circling the aircraft. A B-52 from Minot AFB several years later returned from the UK having been repainted as a member of the Waddington Wing.

I've also heard of Tomcats, Phantoms, and Eagles from the US going to the UK for an exercise and returning as members of the RN or RAF.

Lately they've frowned harshly on such overt tagging, but I recently saw a Texas ANG F-16 and C-130 at the Fort Worth Airshow that had multiple British stickers on them from units they operated alongside while deployed. One I liked particularly was a Tornado sticker placed on the back of the LITENING pod of the F-16.

igorski · Post by **igorski** » 20 Dec 2006, 16:52

One of the famous ones thats cropped up here before is the USN F-4 that got a full RN fin painted on.

Then theres the host of RN F-4's that got zapped during a tour to Oceana. "Colonial Navy" titles anyone?