F-4 tail hook specs?

[Renegade One]

Good dope BzB Jr, guess that about nails it. Problem was, with all the foul smoke roaring out of the twin pipes, plus the required continuous grease job on the hook point, the white stripes didn't last long!
BzB Sr

MIL-STD-2161A - DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STANDARD PRACTICE: PAINT SCHEMES AND EXTERIOR MARKINGS FOR US NAVY AND MARINE CORPS AIRCRAFT (01 MAY 1993)
section 5.2.2.10.4 (spec excerpt attached)

Spec reference for download: http://www.everyspec.com/MIL-STD/MIL-STD-2000-2999/MIL-STD-2161A_24653/

BzB Jr, Engineering Nerd.

Was there a Navy or Marine F-4 flying in 1993? I think not. So…those regs seem not to apply. Bead-blast it to natural metal, paint the "attachment housing" however you want in squadron colors w/your zap, etc. White and black stripes is not, I don't think, representative of your squadron legacy. Heck, chrome-plate the whole thing if you want...

 

[BusyBee604]

Anyone know the color and size of the stripes on the shank for Navy F-4s?

This photo from our 1967 Connie jaunt, a VF-142 Phantom comin' aboard. Can one of you with eagle-eye vision tell if the tailhook is painted or no? Afraid my eyesight has deteriorated, I can't tell.

BzB

 

[maxsonic]

Was there a Navy or Marine F-4 flying in 1993? I think not. So…those regs seem not to apply. Bead-blast it to natural metal, paint the "attachment housing" however you want in squadron colors w/your zap, etc. White and black stripes is not, I don't think, representative of your squadron legacy. Heck, chrome-plate the whole thing if you want...

MIL-STD-2161A was "Revision A" to the original spec...cannot find a reference for the date the original MIL-STD-2161 spec was promulgated. However, this Navy History web site indicates that the Ring-tailed Lemur markings on arresting hooks began as early as 1948: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq2-1.htm (see Paragraph for May 01, 1948)

BzBJr

 

[Renegade One]

...Navy History web site indicates that the Ring-tailed Lemur markings on arresting hooks began as early as 1948...BzBJr

Okay.

This is just what I remember during 6+ years and 1350+ hours flying in three USN models of the beast:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3293/3305440387_47bc307292_z.jpg?zz=1

 

[maxsonic]

Picture of a 60's Era Scooter with Lemur hook paint next to Phantom II with...looks like one hell of a lot of turbine engine soot back there. I imagine the maintainers said to hell with the paint spec, especially during combat ops...

 

[jmcquate]

F-4 was bare metal (including the hook) from the burner cans aft. Even the inboard half of the horizontal stabs were bare metal.

 

[pilotevans1]

Thanks for all the feedback. She's just a shank and a hook point shined up nice and silver already hanging from the squadron bar. F4 maintainer and aircrew are saying silver and soot. So silver it will remain. She didn't have a lick of paint on her when I pulled it.

 

[Redux]

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[Malo83]

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Great find
USS Coral Sea, USS Ranger

 

[VTFlyer]

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Awesome find! I'm in the CVN-75 '07-'08 Arabian Cruise back.... during my enlisted days haha