Most of my cruises featured F-4s. I gotta hand it to their pilots and Rios. That damn thing was dangerous on most placid days at sea. Every peacetime cruise featured at least one F-4 mishap, typically ramp strikes. Brass clangers all around.
You know what really impressed me with a “ohhhhh...” moment, was when they dropped the bombs...you would see the explosions and the “wall of “water” display, then...you heard (and felt)the metallic sound of the explosions transmitted through the water hitting the hull, then...a second or two later, you heard the booms of the explosion coming through the air over the surface of the ocean!
I had one of those “Oh yeah...so THAT’s how it works” physics moments in my head!