NBD. Saw a Phantom do a maximum performance takeoff at Tampa International a thousand years ago..... the ground was shaking....he went up....maximum understatement.
>>NBD. Saw a Phantom do a maximum performance takeoff at Tampa International a thousand years ago..... the ground was shaking....he went up....maximum understatement.
One Saturday morning at MCAS Beaufort, SC, after a particularly hard night of drinking, two F4H (as they were known then)jets took off. As they rolled down the runway, they both hit afterburners and were gone. I thought my head was going to split down the middle.
Only plane I ever do better was an F-102, whose pilot decided to hit afterburners as he cleared the hangar. Straight up and out of sight in 5 seconds.