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F-4 pilot recalls having to do a 6-G pullup in order to avoid a pickup truck during a “snake check” down a jeep trail

‘I assured him that I know his official green Chevy pickup very well and would certainly avoid him,’ David Storm, USAF F-4 Phantom II...

When an F-4 Phantom II radar screen went black because of the high speed of an SR-71

‘I watched in amazement as the Vc circle , which told us the relative closing velocity of the target, started rapidly winding up far...

An ex-Blue Angels CO explains the decision to replace the F-4 Phantom II with the A-7 Corsair II and the choice of the A-4...

‘While we were doing this search for airplanes, a couple of squadrons were coming back from Vietnam and were being decommissioned. They had the...

F-4 Phantom II: J79 Noise, Sonic Booms and Extremely Low Flying

This post's video from the Sierra Hotel may be the best F-4 Phantom II footage ever filmed The Noise You Hear is the Sound of...

A pilot of the F-4 Phantom II recalls an exciting Mach-2 test flight

‘There it is! Mach 2.0, twice the speed of sound. I could go on, Mach 2.4 is probably within reach,’ Ed Cobleigh, former F-4...

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