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The Warplane That Will Not Die (F-4)
Time Magazine ^
| December 4, 2014
| Mark Thompson
Posted on 12/05/2014 7:09:47 AM PST by C19fan
Think of it as the return of the Phantom.
Fly boys of a certain age perked up with reports Thursday that F-4 Phantom IIs belonging to the Iranian air force or whats left of it have attacked targets belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) in recent days.
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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: iran; phantom
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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. :)
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:09:47 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:12:05 AM PST
by
rfreedom4u
(Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
To: C19fan
Maintenance pigs need love, too. LOTS of TLC.
/johnny
To: C19fan
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:19:37 AM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
To: C19fan
The first plane the could accelerate going straight up vertical on AB’s. (At least that is what my primary instructor told me).
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:23:13 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: C19fan
The F-4 was designed to turn jet fuel into noise. Flight was an interesting and potentially useful side effect.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:23:23 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
To: KarlInOhio
The F-4 was designed to turn jet fuel into noise
and smoke.Fixed.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:24:07 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: C19fan
All they gotta do is a Smokey the Screamer F4 low 50 foot pass over ISIS. They`ll all be DEAF, permanentlty.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:25:14 AM PST
by
bunkerhill7
(`("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))
To: C19fan
Had the aerodynamic characteristics of a pair of pliers.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:26:18 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Shure don’t miss standing on my head in the rear cockpit.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:29:22 AM PST
by
Iron head mike
(the government has made me a criminal, it's their problem now.)
To: C19fan
The F-4 proves that if you strap a jet engine to anything it will fly.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:30:53 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Iron head mike
The only way to do a proper cockpit FOD check is to open the cockpits, turn the AC upside down and shake it.
5 minutes later, a screw WILL lodge under the left rudder pedal.
No thanks. I'll take a modern AC that can actually be maintained.
/johnny
To: C19fan
Look at the B-52 that will probably still be flying in 2020
To: miele man
To: central_va
In reading aviation history I thought it was the Century series F-104 that did that first or something something sound barrier.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:37:11 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: SkyDancer
My primary instructor flew F-4’s in ‘nam. He told me the F-4 could accelerate straight up. Maybe he meant the first plane HE flew that could do that.. Not sure so long ago.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:44:31 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: JRandomFreeper; C19fan
WWII P47 was the Thunderbolt... the A10 Warthog is Thunderbolt II...
F4 is the Phantom II... What was the original Phantom I, and from what time period?
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:53:04 AM PST
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: Red_Devil 232
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:53:47 AM PST
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: NFHale
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:54:52 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
12/05/2014 7:58:30 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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