I agree, they would have something like this in their Hangar like I do.
Posted on 03/23/2018 12:04:36 PM PDT by BBell
Do you have dreams of buzzing the control tower after a day of barrel-rolling and air-to-air training against those goons on the red team, and then hopping on your hog and cruising to the beach so you can douse yourself in tanning oil and play a spirited game of volleyball — while maintaining eye contact with your buddies for far too long?
Now, you can make those dreams a reality thanks to the folks over at Platinum Fighters: For a cool $4 million, they’ll sell you your very own F-4 Phantom II.
The Phantom McDonnell Douglas F4H-1F Phantom II Bu.145310 — a pre-production variant and the 11th one produced before the plane was ultimately re-designated the F-4 in September 1962 — is on sale for $3.95 million, Warbirds News reported March 14. Just 45 F4H-1F Phantoms were ever built using an earlier version of the J-79 turbojet featured in the widely-produced F-4s that first took the skies in 1959. And while this war plane isn’t fully operational, it’s pretty close to being flight ready, according to The War Zone.
If you’ve got the cash, why not splurge on the aircraft that was also the first in the F-4 family to be outfitted with hard points to carry bombs — and, as Warbirds News notes, subsequently helped convince the U.S. military that the warplane could function as both a tactical fighter and bomber. It just needs a little work to upgrade its engines, active its ejection seats, and tinker with its avionics.
So if you’ve got a couple million lying around, be prepared to drop a few more — and that’s before you even figure in gas.
About 10 years ago, the DC ANG was doing practice night ground attacks in NJ, iirc. At least one a/c wasn’t where it was supposed to be and laid a burst of 20mm inerts into a school.
Great! It’s time to trade in my Delta Dart.
““The McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom. Proof that with a big enough engine, even a brick will fly.”
Ditto F 104
I’d buy one for my wife, but, she would probably just sleep in the intakes.
(backstory: when she was in the Air Force in the 80s, she was in NDI. They planes couldn’t fly until she signed off on them. She would check the plane, then, crawl into the intake and take a nap, until the pilot came back from lunch.)
Just give me one. That's all you have to do.
So you won’t need a mechanic to work on yours!
Huh? I was an Electronic Tech. ECM!
Electronic tech, mechanic, same difference. I was a grunt (cannon fodder). You are all the same to us.
I knew the guy years ago that bought this plane out of a scrap yard in PA.Lot of work and money went into this thing.Later engines would be a real good idea.
Even a whole pallet of bricks will fly.
I believe the owners first name is Rich or Rick.
Now that’s a proper scooter.
The F-104 had one engine, the F-4 needed two.
Only flown by a little old major on his Sunday church runs
How much runway does it need?
Meanest looking fighter ever!
Not that I have any business riding these days, but I do miss it.
OMG is that contraband! Their was a cycle dealer in western Mass that had one on the road in the late 80’s I knew what it was!
Nevermind the later J-79, a P & W F-100 Will make it do things you never dreamed of. The Israeli’s did it, I wonder if their is film footage on YouTube when they showed it off back in the day.
But weren’t wings theoretically too small for flight?
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