Retired Navy Cmdr. Bill Wheat led the U.S. Navy Blue Angels from 1967 through 1969 and oversaw the team's transition from the F-11 Tiger to the F-4 Phantom. The Fort Walton Beach resident ...

It was the only aircraft used by both U.S. military flight demonstration teams: the Navy Blue Angels and the Air Force Thunderbirds; which flew the Phantom II from 1969 to 1973. It F-4 took part ...

The F-4 Phantom II began flying fleet defense for ... teams from both the Air Force (Thunderbirds) and Navy (Blue Angels). By the time it retired in 1996, it had earned a reputation as one ...

The U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom II took its final flight ... by both the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. Nicknamed Double Ugly, Old Smokey and the Rhino, the aircraft ...

The F-4 Phantom started out as a Navy plane when it first entered service in 1959 and is the only plane used by both the Thunderbirds and the Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration team.

The Blues in Diamond formation in 1969 flying the McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom. The U.S. Navy Blue Angels are getting new ... The Blues’ F-4 teams didn’t have to contend with sophisticated ...

F-4: The Supersonic Brick Takes Flight The plane was officially known as the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.Moniker-wise it was the “sequel” (so to speak) to the original Phantom, that being ...