Oh yeah, nothing like a Rhino at full grunt! 
Ive seen out Pilots do incredible things with them. Ive seen them do, pre-F15, a vertical, or as near a vertical as you can get without being 100% vertical, burners on right over the freaking base. Waking up every poor schmuck who was working mids. Normally they would pull their stunts at the end of their rotations but once when they got a bunch of complaints about noise and they rattled that air base for a week until they were asked nicely to stop. It was a different era, mess with one Phantom jock and you were messing with them all. And they didnt like being messed with. Back then USAF Leadership was still very much all fighter jocks.
They were mostly all 'nam vets, a few were aces, were at the end of their careers cause they were to old to start with 15s or 16s ; Also, They were tasked with "special delivery" missions into the Soviet Union so they were always one phone call away from big Bada-Boom.
They started with their beloved Phantoms and they ended their careers with them. They loved us Sky Cops cause we protected them like they were our own babies too and we never ratted them out when the 0530 step van reeked of Johnny Walker Red from the night before. They were the last of a breed and they were damn good in a damn fine fighter bomber.
