Hey Hulka, Sorry about my F-16 double post, I didn’t read all the way to the bottom. Nice to see a fighter pilot freepers out there.
F-4’s don’t glide. The procedure is to eject. Engineers got smarter.
F-4’s. . .I recall the first time I actually saw one up close, and that was while in pilot training. We were students, standing around on the T-37 flight-line, saw a trail of smoke way off in the distance. Boy howdy, we all thought, that guy must be on fire or something, making an emergency landing. Turns out it was an F-4 just smokin’ along for an approach and full-stop.
Got to climb over it and drool while doing so. We being T-37 students we were dreaming of someday getting that jet. . .as F-16s and F-15's were very rare for recent UPT grads. So, no F-4 for me. . .I got the mighty T-37!
Oh well. . .
Cheers.