F-4 Phantom interceptors performing Zulu Alert Scramble
The F-4 Phantoms have to take off during Zulu Alert Scrambles within five minutes of the horn going off The stunning video in this post, which was shot in a…
The F-4 Phantoms have to take off during Zulu Alert Scrambles within five minutes of the horn going off The stunning video in this post, which was shot in a…
Aviem Sella returned from missions over Egypt three or four times a week, flying low over Haifa to let his lecturers know he would soon be attending their classes The…
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the F-4 Phantom II served as the U.S. Air Force’s main fighter-bomber aircraft This post’s informative infographic offers some important findings about the famed F-4…
Many pilots who were shot down remembered how the sound of a Sandy passing overhead gave them hope when everything looked desperate Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) personnel made a…
The flexible “fluid four” formation flown by USAF pilots was very different from the famed “thatch weave,” or loose “deuce,” formation during World War 2. During the Vietnam War, US…
“The hard wing variants did not turn as well as the slatted models. Smaller planes could outturn it however a well-flown Phantom was the king until the next generation fighters…
The heart was kept in an ice-filled plastic picnic cooler. General Bob Becklund of the North Dakota Air National Guard was operating the F-4, and the cooler was fastened to…
When an engine fire produced a strong oscillation of the fly-by-wire aircraft in July 1979 while Norman “Ken” Dyson was piloting Have Blue No. 2, he was forced to eject.…
“I am the spirit of the Phantom. My spirit will live long in the minds and hearts of those in whom I have captured something. They are the ones who…
“It grows on you. It smells like an airplane, it makes a lot of noise, vibrates, goes fast, it’s real loud. You put it on like a glove. I’ll never…