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Canada finally had to settle for these when they shitcanned the Arrow Dane

Definitely an F4E Dane

look at the tail of the sebecat jagua and the Kawasaki trainer

I a Crew Chief on The F4D's and RF-4C's for 17 yrs. It's a love/hate relationship. More phantom bites than I can count. 😅 . That's an F4E Phantom model. It had slats on the outboard leading edge and a regular leading edge inboard flap. On the deck, the Rf-4c was absolutely a beast in speed. I was run qualified up to afterburner, taxi qualified, high speed qualified with crew in backseat,flight control qualified. I even got a ride in my own aircraft ( 65-0824 ). It's unbelievable what the F4 could do. Phantom Phxyer for Life.

Very informative! CF-102 in service until 1980 when it was replaced with the Hornet.

We need it. Take it back.

It's titanium. We were making replacement horizontal surfaces at Fairchild Republic in 1985.

I was employed at Rockwell as an Training Representative on the B1-A's . Best job I ever had. So,, you could say I know pretty much everything there is to know about the B1-A's. Amazing aircraft. I'd love to go to this museum and visit my "baby". again.

The sawtooth on the wing was INVENTED by A.V Roe Canada - AVRO, and was FIRST used on the AVRO CF-105 ARROW. When the Arrow was (STUPIDLY) cancelled by the Canadian Government (Under US pressure) in 1959, most of the engineers moved to the US.

Two J79s worth of Freedom!

Take it back

My mother loved the F-4, she would call out, “look a phantom!!!” I miss her

I do not find the F4 beautiful. Distinctive, brutal, impressive, intimidating, but looking like a series of peripheral fixes to core decisions, as if engineered middle-out using permanent marker -- or, the natural result of building one aircraft to replace several. When I look at my favorite kind of gritty/industrial worldbuilding sci-fi machinery, it's the F4's influence that I see, more than what came before or after.

I had a model of this aircraft when I was a kid and the box art said it was an F-110! I saw it as a continuation of the Century Series and slotting right in there before the F-111. (And I always had the urge to call the YF-12A, the F-112!) I still don't know why McNamara decided to change the way all U. S. military aircraft are designated and to start the counting over again (B-70....B-1....B-2, etc. The F-15, F-16, YF-17, F-18, F-20, F-22, YF-23....all of them should have a 1 in front of their number!! Not sure where we would then slot the oddly named F-117A, but maybe it should have been the F-119? And the F-14, being strictly a Navy aircraft, ought to have been the whatever was next in series for Grumman, (F-13F?) but let's say F-14F. And the F-35 should be the F-24...or really, the F-124! Ah, well....) There was nothing wrong with the way the individual services were doing it before (I liked the way the Navy assigned a letter code to each manufacturer) and they should have just kept on with it. But then, there were a lot of things McNamara did that I didn't understand....and I think I'm not alone.

wing needed dihedral of 5 degrees, so tip is 12 degrees

25:35 ish, mm sure takeoff with AB on is pretty but at 1000ft it might crack windows, the "sound" isn't just what you think, it's a sequence of air pressure waves essentially, it doesn't sound and feel like something is tearing apart the sky/air for nothing. I tried to stay in a tent something around 1000ft off the side of a runway where we had F/A-18 hornets taking off of - I had double ear protection so that wasn't a huge issue, the fact that the tent kept getting blown over was what made it a no-go. I was manning a comms wagon and ended up sleeping on the floor in the wagon instead of the f'ing tent. I had some choice words for the crew who prepped the site afterwards, but unsurprisingly they were doubling over from laughter saying brass had told them to give us a scenic location. It _WAS_ a sight to behold at night, but that doesn't make you very happy when you're trying to get some shuteye after sitting staring at a computer screen for 12+hours.

Love the view of the F4 with the Piper Cub above. Great plane and great plane just for different reasons

Supply clerk on USS Midway CV-41, and I never got tired of watching flight ops from the island, vultures' row. I could watch A-6 and A-7 cat shots from start to finish, but when an F-4 was launching, the jet blast deflectors threw that exhaust right at me, 50 feet up and 200 feet back. I'd look, and if the airdale was shoving the wing up and down, I knew to pull my head back and look again about 10 seconds later to see the launch. It was like a pizza oven, it was so hot, and the orange cone of the afterburner just added to it. An aircraft carrier is the best toy in the world, and Phantoms made it so much better.

This my friend is an F-4E.

I served 6 years in the USAF as an Electronic Warfare Specialist working mostly F-4Gs.

Between the B1 being the bright new thing only to get cancelled and the program being restarted, my buddy 🇬🇧, on a tour of US plane wrecks found 2 prototypes abandoned in a hanger. They were covered in bird poop and detritus over their Zinc Chromate paint job. All I know is his tale of finding them and seeing the photographs he took of them.

Flying pickup truck. Not century series. Yes unstable in the F-110 test series. Elevator is producing down force again a stability fix if memory serves. Prettiest/ perfect fighter? I can think of others!

No no no the F-15 is the greatest

Nothing like guys who's knowledge came from youtube making a youtube video.

The A-7 was also used by the USN, USAF and ANG, long before the F-35. And we should not forget the Sabre/Fury or the A-3 and the B-66.

The F-4 was a generation unto itself. The most significant American Fighter designed between the century series and the F14

The greatest aerodynamic compromise that ever was forced to fly! And God sayeth, let there be aluminum, steel, and titanium. Assemble these parts to be capable of flight, of power and grace, let it be beautiful. The edict was given to engineers and they thinketh the problem and built, and toiled, and one day the hanger doors were flung wide open for all to see. Thousands were there to see what Gods edict had wrought, and the crowd gasped in horror! Gods name was used in vain, women fainted, children screamed, men soiled themselves. What was before them was a mechanical horror, wings askew, tail bent, engines capable of tearing angels from the heavens. God looked on in horror, condemning its engineers to the pits of hell. Test pilots had to be drugged, bound, and set into the beast before flight. The beast was brought to life in a cacophony of sound and fire and heat. God was ashamed, this was no angelic and beautiful machine of flight! Oh no, it was an incarnation out of the depths of hell. It flew on two tongues of flame, smoke belched forth from its guts, death hanging from all points of its skeleton. Steely men sat within her, men bent on destruction and the delivery of sudden death. God sat in the heavens, weeping, how could this have happened he pondered. Then it dawned upon the almighty, this was no angelic vehicle of the skies, it was a Phantom, a bringer of death and destruction, a harbinger. Hence and forever known as The Phantom, it would own the skies for many decades. Hauling men of conviction and steely nerves, men who cared not for mortals, but only for the delivery of souls unto God, souls in whole or in pieces. All feared this mighty Phantom of the ether, and all who faced her spoke reverently of her power, her speed, and her capacity for death. And the angels and demons all rejoiced, for there was a Phantom amoungst them.

My brother was an Air Force crew chief on F-4's in Thailand during the war. Later stateside he transitioned to F-15's. He described the F-4 as a suped up Chevy pickup truck, the F-15 as a Ferrari...

The hook is unlocked and resting on its safety pin/wire!!😯

The first back seat installation in an F-110 was almost an afterthought. The pilot sat on an ejection seat, the GIB had a parachute.

The F-110A was never called “Spectre”. Before it ever left the paint barn in St. Louis, the first aircraft with F-110A titles on it had “PHANTOM II” painted below it. The only use of “Spectre” I’ve ever found (in going on 50 years of research) was in the popular press. I’ve never found a single USAF or McDonnell document that used that name. I wish we could put this myth to rest once and for all.

F-4 Phantom II. The world’s greatest distributor of MiG parts

Early on there were rules against F4s dog fighting anything but F4s in training. This meant a heavy fighter only trained against a heavy fighter. Only after experience facing the much lighter Migs was the training rules changed to train against Soviet style lightweight fighters.

great reporting. wow. very impressive depth

That phantom is an e model

I was stationed at Spangdahlem Air Base West Germany in 1979, which was next to Bitburg Air base. They had F-15s and we had 4s. 15s could take off vertical and the 4s at mostly a 45 degree angle. Now that I know about the tail stabilator being in the afterburner stream, it makes sense why the 4 couldn't take off at a higher angle than it did. P.S. 12:00 Spang had an arrestor cable at the end of the runway and a net just for the runaway scenario described in the video.

/Bangor-BrewsterMy uncle served as an Air Guard mechanic on F-101s in the Seventies. They were on 5 minute alert at Bangor-Brewster International Airport. I sat in an Air Guard pickup tailgating an F101. Guard Voodoos were getting low time parts from Vietnam War recon F101s destined for the boneyard. I also recall a photo of a Voodoo back-seater showing his ass in a full moon. That was amazing, since the Voodoo's back eat would make old school phone booth seem like a ranch house. God bless everyone who flew and cared for F101s RIP Duncan Hutchinson

The Phantom FGRs with the Speys had more airframe drag but also about 15% more afterburning thrust. So the take-off distance was some 30% shorter, the climb rate 20% better, the fuel burn was lower, and the plane was quicker accelerating and had a higher top speed at low to medium altitudes where whe turbofan was better, but at the higher altitude regimes a turbojet is more efficient and the actual top speed is better. For the smaller deck carriers the british used, a lower high altitude mach # was an acceptable trade off for all the other performance improvements, especially given their lack of dedicated inflight refueling aircraft attached to the airwings at the time. This is also why the USN never operated any F-4s off their Essex class carriers as the decks were too short to reliably and safely get the planes off the catapult in all possible wind conditions. They also couldn't operate the A-5s, A-6s nor the F-14s for the same reason.

I was a crew chief on f4’s in the Air Force back in my youth the best experience ever, I’m retired and in my late 60s now it all seems like a dream when I think about it. It scared the hell out of me the first time I ever did an engine run my knees were shaking holding the brakes on.

A lot of the construction details of the F-101 ended up in the F-4 Phantom II, like the tripple fuselage and the tail design. As for the century series that ended up as bombers, I think that only applies for the Super Sabre. The closest the Voodoo came to being a bomber was as a photo reconaissance plane, the F-102 and F-106 always remained interceptors, the Starfighter was pittyful as a bomber unless it carried a nuke and actually went back to the interception role as the F-104S and the F-105 was a bomber to begin with.

The inlets on the MiG-23 are the same as the F-4 inlets. Like so exactly the same that the number of holes on the splitters is _exactly_ the same!

I guess the Yak-28 Firebar or Su-11 Fishpot would've been the Ruskie equivalents to the Voodoo

Selfridge ANGB had Genie-armed F-101s, and 106s.

AIR-2B Genie nuclear rockets were meant to vaporize Russian bombers if you didn't nuke yourself with them.

Thumbnail says F110 not F4

I served on a SAC base from 66-70 and the fighter squadron stationed there was flying the Voodoo. Yep, they were loud on afterburner takeoff but not any worse than B-52's taking off on scramble.

I want one or 2 ,,,,,, Should not have given it up . Could still be affective today with upgrades .

the innovative and goofy Phantom! thats why i love it! it wasnt a great dogfighter only if you got sucked in the other guy fight! which is the horizontal, take it to the vertical and fly like an idiot just to drive him crazy, straight up he will put his butt where the sidewinder could bite just imagining the sound of those J79 spooling one after another, add alil bit of power, makes my pants my move!

MJS Too bad they don't offer rides, going on B24 Diamond Lil after she is back in the air can't wait. Flew on B17 Sentimental Journey and B25 Maid in the Shade killer rides, and combat flown. Looking at planes is fun but flying in them is awesome. Getting ready to ride on a B29, C47, and a SBC2 Helldiver in 2025.