Some new negatives received from the estate of the late Dick Kamm.
This tricked-out Swift, seen at Oceanside in 1966, went by the name of the "Palomar Thunderbird."
Waco RNF-1 N124Y at an unknown fly-in.
The rest of the photos are of Phantoms from the deck of the USS Forrestal in May 1967.
F-4G 150487 (this was the Navy F-4G, the ones built to test automated carrier landings, not the USAF Wild Weasel).
F-4G 150487 comes aboard, leaving its little smoke puffs.
F-4G 150492 landing.
F-4G 150492 flypast.
F-4J 153071. Preserved at the Naval Air Test and Evaluation Museum, Patuxent, MD.
F-4J 153078. Later became a Blue Angels aircraft.
F-4J 153079. Another future Blue Angel.
F-4J 153080. Yes, this one joined the Blues as well.
F-4J 153081. Yep, this one too.
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