[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.

[Straight Vermonter]

I grew up with the VTANG flying the F4 around here. I remember 5 minute stoppages in classes because there was no way to hear each other as they passed by miles away.

[21twelve]

“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.”

Huh. Very apt description and reasoning - as a 54 year-old civilian, I have always liked the F-4. Becoming aware of these things during the Vietnam era is also a factor I am sure.