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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...
F-8 Crusader Vs F-4 Phantom II: the “Last of the Gunfighters” and the first “All-Weather Interceptor”
In contrast to the F-4's "all-weather interceptor" role, the Phantom made many of its early cruises as paired squadrons with F-8 units, which were...
