Aviacom Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Hi, Something I’ve long considered, are there any Natural Metal F-4 Phantom schemes out there? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chek Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 There are occasional photos of F-4s that have been totally stripped of paint for complete refinishing. But they'e always unmarked.and not really a scheme, just in the middle of a process such as F-4C 63-7455 below getting her lo-voltage formation (slime) lights fitted at Tulsa in 1981. MikeC, BiggTim and LSP_K2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony T Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 If you saw the stripped airframes in colour the metal areas would have the etch/alodine iridescent brassy finish of hexavalent chromium, other areas primed in lemon zinc chromate. The only areas left bare metal comprised the Inconel stainless steel empennage and titanium keel, and jetcans which — up to the time of the smokeless mods of the early 1980s — rapidly got very sooty. The glassfibre radome was covered in a thin black or white cured neoprene 'sock', so you might occasionally see a creamy or beige raw radome. I don't believe any were painted in the (absence of camouflage) default polyurethane aluminium finish, as FS 16473 Aircraft Gray had become the new normal default colour for the USAF by the mid-1960s; USN light gull gray over gloss white. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 To Illustrate Tony's point. This is a Spey powered Phantom Barry LSP_K2 and Wackyracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael931080 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 4 hours ago, Barry said: To Illustrate Tony's point. This is a Spey powered Phantom Barry YUCK! Out2gtcha and BiggTim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ivanovich Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Double Uglies just prior to hatching... Out2gtcha, Tony T and Gazzas 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Two One Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Ivan, Interesting, in the first picture that Phantom is the 5000th air frame produced. An -E that would later get a blue and white celebratory paint scheme. Cheers, Itch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottsGT Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 That's some nasty pre-shading on that Spey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee White Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 I seem to remember reading that the Phantom was the first Thunderbird mount to he painted overall white, since it looked so bad in 'natural' metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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