03-14-2019, 12:14 PM
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Dazed and Confused
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: TN
Posts: 11,626
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
The F-4 Phantom II is the meanest looking "all business" aircraft ever designed.
Sad to see them stop flying.
"Clean" they could do nearly Mach 2.4.
The last US Based one flying is privately owned by the Collings Foundation.
The last two in the actual USAF stopped flying more than a year ago.
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They do look wicked and they performed quite well considering they were designed for both AF/Navy and had to do air superiority and tactical bombing, sometimes on the same missions.
I guess their last front line work for the USA was with the Wild Weasels. It wasn't a bad platform for that or for recon with the M 2.4 top speed, even after it was past its prime in other roles. Even with Tomcats and Eagles having more powerful engines, the F-4 always seemed the loudest and, as you say, meanest at the air shows.
BTW, the new F-35 is really loud for a single engine fighter. My son works at Lockheed in FW and can tell from the noise what has just shown up at the airfield without looking outside.
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