The F-4 also has a very distinct howl from the J79 engines in certain flight regimes.
And lets not forget the smoke trail they left in the sky, another signature feature...
Love the howl.
You could hear it most often when they throttled back coming in on approach.
Always thought that really made the name ‘Phantom’ work.
I arrived early for the 1988 Wings Over Houston airshow at Ellington Field. The Air National Guard unit was doing touch and goes with F-4s. I heard that howl.