Brings back memories at Seymour Johnson in 84. Our load crew worked weekend duty, 12+ hours a day. Worked till late Sunday evening loading and arming for Monday first goes. Came to work Monday morning, and it was chaos! Everybody was running all over! When I asked why, I was informed that Hurricane Diana was coming, and we had to evaluate all four squadrons of F-4Es and the tankers. It was quite the experience!

Keep em safe and dry

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

Indeed!

Thank you for these videos showing off these gorgeous birds.

I'm in n Houston. It's bad today. But..not that bad. Keep those girls safe!!!!!

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

Hopefully you still have power. Ours was knocked out around 10. Doing fine otherwise 🙂

Thanks for this video, your explanations of how to work all the support equipment are very interesting, Well Done!!

Stay safe over there.

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

Will do!

When you get the F-4 flying see if they will come out to Thunder over Louisville in April! Would love to see it! Have some old Crew Chiefs that would love to take a look at it!

Thanks for taking care of the babies that kept us safe for decades.

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

Our pleasure! Like Jet Jerod said when the F-100 flew, "these aircraft served their country and did their duty, now it's our time to serve them and preserve their history".

well thank God I never tried to come visit this place, I don't know why I had it in my head that you guys were outside of Boston haha

I love the F4, can't believe you guys don't name them!

Stay Safe!

It’s our turn to keep them safe now

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

Sure is!

Hunker down. Be safe.

Bonus Beryl Bonanza! Boom! I was in North Houston for Rita, Ike, and Harvey. Fun times, for sure. Keep them birdies safe.

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

Will do! We weren’t around for Ike, moved here a few years after that one. Did get to experience Harvey though.

@spencerb311

Ай бұрын

@@DieselThunderAviationI live in Galveston and our house had 4 feet of water in Ike. Not a good time!

Stay safe up there. We seemed to have dodged it a bit south of ya.

Stay safe bro!

Did you... Use a screwdriver on a Dzus fastener?! You hack, you!!! 🙂 All teasing aside, I know people use screwdrivers all the time on those. Also KZread just gave me an old video of our girl here from 6 years ago: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i6Ki1rOvadq0aaQ.html

Curious. Why not manually close the canopies? I never worked the D model, but it was possible to close the canopies on the E model manually with a locking mechanism on the right side of the fuselage.

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

That is possible, though getting them up off of the safety strut can be a small challenge, and then being able to gently lower them. Putting some air into the system doesn't take too long and allows the lift and latching mechanisms to operate like normal.

@ldmurphy6649

Ай бұрын

@@DieselThunderAviation gotcha. That makes sense. Thanks for the quick response. Wishing you guys well this week. Stay safe.

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

Anytime! We'll be safe, and hopefully making some sweet J79 noise next weekend!

@Fabulousprofound168

Ай бұрын

What is the status on the ejection seats?

Dude, were you a crew chief in the military or something? You seem to know a bit about age equipment.

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

I am retired military, but was not in aviation. I served as an Electronics Tech in the Coast Guard for a little over 20 years. Adding to that I’ve been a gear head nearly my whole life and always enjoyed working on engines and things. 🙂

@chrishuber3814

Ай бұрын

Ahh, that explains things a little. Thank you for your service!

Is that aircraft equipped with ejection seats or have they been removed for maintenance?

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

They are out for maintenance. Even if they hadn’t been removed, they would have had to come out to allow us access to the electrical gear that’s mounted behind the backseat and the canopy lift strut.

@Subgunman

Ай бұрын

@@DieselThunderAviation roger that!

Can you use nitrogen to for the canopy on the F4?

@DieselThunderAviation

Ай бұрын

We can use nitrogen, but it’s not required on that system. The Phantom has it’s own air compressor onboard and it uses regular air, which is what we used there.

@bobroyes589

28 күн бұрын

@@DieselThunderAviation That's all we used in the Navy was nitrogen, It was definitely required on the tires.