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Penny Wild, the fighter controller who became the RAF’s only female Phantom driver
Penny Wild found the lightness of the hydraulically-operated controls to be a little unnerving at first, but soon, when the two aircraft split for practice...
Former F-14 Tomcat RIO clarifies first confirmed MiG-killing F-4 Phantom II of the Vietnam War
Many sources in print and on the Internet erroneously report that Commander Lou Page (pilot) and Lieutenant JC Smith (RIO) flew F-4B 151488 for...
The best F-4 Phantom footage in history
The footage features USAF F-4 and RF-4 Phantom IIs flying extremely low with J79 noise (along with some spectacular sonic booms) and no background...
Ex-F-4 Phantom pilot shares thrilling Mach 2 test flight
‘We are supersonic and still accelerating, the maniacal engines will not be denied. With nothing else to do, I watch the Mach meter unwind;...
An RAF Phantom Pilot remembers shadowing two Soviet Bears over France with his navigator and wingman when French fighters were grounded for Bastille Day...
‘The VC10 captain announced that as it was Bastille Day he had been told that we would have to look after the ‘trade’ alone...