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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

Dennis Haney, son of X-1 rocket engineer Byron Haney, joined the US Air Force as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1968, becoming a navigator, Electronic Warfare Officer, and Weapons Systems Officer in the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter aircraft. The course of his career led him to fly over 2000 hours in the F-4C, F-4D, F-4E, and F-4G. Tours of duty included Okinawa, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Nevada, California, Ohio, and Germany. Highlights included several tours flying the 'Wild Weasel" variants of the F-4. This mission included hunting and neutralizing, by suppression or destruction, Soviet-made radar-directed Surface-to-Air Missile sites. Other assignments included development and test of newer versions of anti-radiation missiles, and participation in the development of a Follow-On Wild Weasel aircraft, the F-4G. It was in this aircraft that Lt Col Haney served in his last operational tour of duty as Assistant Deputy Commander for Operations of the 52nd Tactical Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. Lt Col Haney was the first Wild Weasel to log time in the first production F-4G, Serial Number 69-7263, on display at the United States Air Force Museum, at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.