
Photos by Scott Zeno and Alice Leong, first published in Photorecon.net in 2017
December, 2016 saw the final flights of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II for the US Air Force. The final aircraft were QF-4 versions… target drones that were replaced with the “new” QF-16 Viper.

There was much revelry and retelling of “tales of old”. Here are many of the photos we ran in Photorecon.net in early 2017 of that epic week when the F-4 Phantom was retired from US Air Frce service: