An F-4N (of Navy squadron VF-111) moves down close and fast across the northeastern Arizona desert, mirrored by another in the distance.

"When VF-111 was established during the Second World War, it adopted the emblem of a setting sun, and during the late 1960s and throughout the 70s, the squadron had some of the most colorfully painted aircraft in the Navy inventory," Phillips explains.

He shows an F-4N as it looked in 1976, sporting red, white and blue tailmarkings to celebrate the Bicentennial.