photo #6109269

In 1972, the black painted flagship F-4J Phantom II of the Navy’s VX-4 “Evaluators” flew in formation with an Air Force SR-71 Blackbird, resulting in an amazing photo still famous today. Recently, the flagship F/A-18F Super Hornet of VX-9 “Vampires” got to recreate the famous formation photo with a U-2S of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at the end of their test missions over the Mojave Desert. According to the photo’s metadata, the formation was flown on Nov. 27, 2023, however the photos were published just few days ago. thank you to Dave Szymanski