F-4 Carrier Aviator on Yankee Station
Tom Dolan2019-09-24T16:14:33-05:00Austin Lindsey, Captain USN (ret) I was flying a late night mission from the USS Independence in the Gulf of Tonkin. On return, I had a hydraulic pump failure and couldn’t lower my landing gear. Since it was night, the ship diverted me to Da Nang which had a Marine F4 squadron. I activated my emergency air system to lower the landing gear but only the left main and the nose wheel came down. So now I was faced with a one wheel up landing. […]