[C19fan]

The Turks fly updated Phantoms. A reconnaisance version got shot down over Syria in 2012. I love the saying about the Phantom if you have big enough engines you can make a brick fly. :)

[rfreedom4u]

The F-4 (like the Warthog) proves that if you take care of a good piece of equipment it will last a long time.

But I wouldn’t want to fly an F-4 against an F-18 flown by our Marine pilots.

[JRandomFreeper]

Maintenance pigs need love, too. LOTS of TLC.

/johnny

[Red_Devil 232]

[central_va]

The first plane the could accelerate going straight up vertical on AB’s. (At least that is what my primary instructor told me).

[KarlInOhio]

The F-4 was designed to turn jet fuel into noise. Flight was an interesting and potentially useful side effect.

[bunkerhill7]

All they gotta do is a Smokey the Screamer F4 low 50 foot pass over ISIS. They`ll all be DEAF, permanentlty.

[central_va]

Had the aerodynamic characteristics of a pair of pliers.

[central_va]

The F-4 proves that if you strap a jet engine to anything it will fly.

[The Great RJ]

Look at the B-52 that will probably still be flying in 2020

[miele man]

for later read

[IYAS9YAS]

It must be what you grow up with. They flew F-4s out of the Boise Air Port (Idaho ANG, Gowen Field). I grew up watching them. I have a distinct liking for them. It was the reason I went into the Air Force. I was going to be a jet engine mechanic, then made the very unwise decision, upon the concerned rhetoric of a MEPS paperwork pusher, to become a linguist (I'd taken German in high school, and they were looking for fodder, I guess).

Shoulda stuck with my original intent.

All of it stemmed from growing up around muscle cars. The F-4 and muscle cars were kissin' cousins in that theory of big engines and bricks.

[Sparky1776]

Phantom Scramble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fqBXqb6LP8

[equaviator]

Sierra Hotel!

[BillM]

I asked the former chief pilot for NASA Dryden what his favorite plane was (he flew everything including the SR-71).

His answer... F4 Phantom. It was like the ultimate hotrod.

The last few years he headed the flight test group for the Eurofighter.

[Pappy Smear]

Military planes interest me, but I am not way into it. So I pose to you guys about the F4....I’ve seen all the comments about flying brick and all that....what tactical advantage does it bring? If it supposedly occasionally beat F-15s, why did that happen? With its apparent disadvantages, why did we use it and what was it built for to accomplish?