Just Jayhawking Around, in Full Color

How about this fantastic Cold War color image of “NAWC-47” (Bloodhound 47), a red-trimmed QF-4N drone (BuNo 152253) with an on-board crew assigned to the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Weapons Division, Point Magu. The curious ordnance seen underwing is a Beechcraft AQM-37 Jayhawk, a zippy (Mach 4) little (14-foot, 600-pound) supersonic target drone of which some 5,000 were expended between 1963 and 2022. Photo via NAWC, Pt. Magu The above aircraft was built in 1964 as an F4H-1 (redesignated F-4B), MSN 934, and later converted to F-4J and F-4N standards. She is known to have flown operationally with VMFA-531, VF-14, VF-151, VF-84, VF-151, and VF-21. Converted to a QF-4N after 1983, she was eventually expended in missile testing over the Pacific on 13 December 1994.