A pair of RF-4C aircraft flying overhead to commence landing at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base during Vietnam War. Airmen downloading reconnaissance cameras from aircraft. Pilot fills out Form 1. Views of RF-4C Phantoms landing at Ubon Thai Air Force Base one by one, deploying drag chutes. RF-101 aircraft land and taxi to parking area.
United States RF-101 aircraft at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base.Follow-me jeep leading an RF-101 to parking area. U.S. airman directs an RF-101 parking on flight line. Airmen open nose section of the aircraft and remove reconnaissance film. U.S. airman on cockpit ladder talks with pilot. Views of cameras in belly and nose of aircraft.
U.S. Air Force McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo aircraft on flight line at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base. Yellow auxiliary power units providing power for each airplane. A sergeant working at open hatch in side of fuselage. An airman cleaning canopy. Yellow fuel truck in front of the airplanes. Pilot conversing with ground crewmen under nose of aircraft. . Pilot gets into cockpit of the aircraft. Another pilot walks to his airplane. Glimpse of him starting his preflight walkaround inspection. He climbs into cockpit and dons his helmet. The plane seen taxiing out and along the flightline.
View of the first three U.S. B-52 bombers (of a force of 15) landing at U-Tapao Airbase, Thailand on April 10, 1967. These bombers hit targets in Vietnam on their way to U-Tapao. (The entire force arrived during the period from April through July, 1967, on temporary assignment from the Strategic Air Command 4433rd Bomb Wing at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam.) The B-52s are under the command of the SAC 3rd Air Division. The aircraft land with wing flaps down and deploy drag chutes to slow their ground rolls.Officers of the 4258th Strategic Wing,and Royal Thai Air Force greet the arriving aircrews. The event is recorded by photographers, along with newsmen from Japan, Thailand, United States and Philippines. (Vietnam War period).
The mounting of assembled Laser-Guided Bombs on USAF F-4D fighter-bomberat Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Airmen attach laser unit (DCU-141/B) on the front of Mark 84 Laser-Guided Bombs (LGBs) mounted on USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II fighter-bomber. The airmen attach canard fins to the unit and insert tail fuse in the bomb.
Assembled laser-guided bombs mounted on to a fighter-bomber at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Airmen install laser sighting device on the canopy frame of USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II fighter-bomber cockpit. The airmen connect wires to the circuit. The pilot preflighting Mark 84 Laser-Guided Bombs (LGBs) on the USAF F-4D aircraft. The slogan on the bomb reads : 'When You Care Enough To Send The Very Best'.
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