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Flying the F-4 for two air forces gave Danny Grossman a unique view of the Phantom. After serving six years as a U.S. Air Force F-4 weapons officer, he spent 20 years as an Israeli Air Force ...
Blackbird Blackout — The Time an F-4 Phantom Tried to Intercept an SR-71 ... began to dither back and forth rapidly before slamming to the side of the scope and the screen went completely ...
What You Need to Know: In 2013, two Iranian F-4 Phantom II fighters ... no twin-seat aircraft can’t be described as offering the best view from the cockpit, while most fighter pilots are ...
But comparing the F-22 Raptor to the F-4 Phantom is like comparing a Ferrari to a minivan. The F-4 was originally designed as a Navy interceptor in the late 1950s, to destroy Soviet bombers.
When driving along Interstate 12 through rural Livingston Parish, one of the last things you expect to see is an F-4 Phantom jet ... fighter on the southwest side of the exit.
The F-4 Phantom was a fighter jet that entered service with the U.S. Navy in 1961 and eventually found its way to the Air Force two years later only for the Marine Corps to adopt it too.
The F-4 Phantom II began flying fleet defense for the U.S. Navy in 1958 but wasn't used by the Air Force until 1963 (as the F-4C). The two-seat, twin-engine tactical jet fighter bomber was built ...
But the old F-4 Phantom II with the iconic drooping tail fins couldn't endure the salt air blowing in off Hillsborough Bay during the decades it stood on display at MacDill Air Force Base.