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Who told you that and where were you told it? At Korat all you needed was a line badge or authorized escort and a permit from the information office on base. I used to go out in my camoflaged fatigues and would get stopped by the maint. guys sometimes who were looking for a chance to get some revenge against us for something they did and we had to get involved.
Did you take a close look at the kill markings on the splitter vane?
Beautiful photos! And here I was told no cameras on the flight line...
F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!
U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
- Plankton
LSM
Here's a couple shots I took when it landed at Korat in 1974:
fotofrank Joe Kittinger's F-4 Phantom at Joe Kittinger Park on the southwest corner of Orlando Executive Airport.
Joe Kittinger's F-4 Phantom at Joe Kittinger Park on the southwest corner of Orlando Executive Airport.
Is that in the markings of the F-4 that he was flying when he was shot down? Ltc Kittinger scored his Mig kill in the same F-4D that Steve Ritchie flew for his first and last kills, 66-7463, the highest scoring F-4 of the war with six kills.
edit- scratch that about his downed aircraft. Here is more info on Kittinger, 463, and some other good stuff for USAF Vietnam Pahntom Phans
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/f-4d-29-mc/
OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...
I knew of his ballon stratosphere jump, and having been a POW in Vietnam. But I looked him up to learn more. I didn't realize that he was also a Mig Killer during Linebacker before getting shot down himself. A bold and brave soul.
Even thought I was in the Air force, I had never heard of him before I got to Orlando. I met him at the Winter Park mall one day and when he introduced himself, I think he was a little surprised by my reaction which was a look something like "and that means what to me?" There was never any talk aboiut him in any squadron I was in so I had no idea.
Where is a F-4 on display at the small airport in town that just happens to be one of the ones he flew. We heard that a requesdt went in for a display aircraft from the bone yard and this one was randomly picked.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-obit-joseph-kittinger_n_6394a0b1e4b015bb573bbaa9
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