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Offline Puma44

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Phantom Admiration Society
« on: June 13, 2014, 02:27:21 PM »
Here's a start:








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Re: Phantom Admiration Society
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2014, 02:46:49 PM »
I forgot how big the Standard ARM was. That guy is going SAM hunting. Craziest job in the Air Force.  ;)
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2014, 02:53:58 PM »
in 1975 I was stationed at Sparrevohn Alaska, at the very top of an extinct volcano watching the Russians.  We would scramble Phantoms weekly to intercept, all just games as we would never engage.

On the return trip, many times these interceptors would be going right by our mountain and if you asked nicely, sometimes they would do a fly by.

I would get on the base loudspeaker and announce the fly by and everyone that could would turn out to watch.

The most memorable one was a pair of em, on the deck, hauling butt, then staying right near ground level as they climbed the mountain, rolled, and descended inverted right down the other side.  Snow swirled off the dormitory as they passed over it on top of the mountain.  Stuff shook.  The noise was overwhelming, and, we cold see the smile on the pilots faces, or we imagined it because they had their masks on, but I knew they were smiling.


I love that plane, I always will.


BTW, I was the "weapons controller".  I vectored our aircraft to the enemy using not much more that what I use in Aces High to spot incoming missions.
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Re: Phantom Admiration Society
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2014, 03:09:34 PM »
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Re: Phantom Admiration Society
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2014, 03:20:53 PM »
in 1975 I was stationed at Sparrevohn Alaska, at the very top of an extinct volcano watching the Russians.  We would scramble Phantoms weekly to intercept, all just games as we would never engage.

On the return trip, many times these interceptors would be going right by our mountain and if you asked nicely, sometimes they would do a fly by.

I would get on the base loudspeaker and announce the fly by and everyone that could would turn out to watch.

The most memorable one was a pair of em, on the deck, hauling butt, then staying right near ground level as they climbed the mountain, rolled, and descended inverted right down the other side.  Snow swirled off the dormitory as they passed over it on top of the mountain.  Stuff shook.  The noise was overwhelming, and, we cold see the smile on the pilots faces, or we imagined it because they had their masks on, but I knew they were smiling.


I love that plane, I always will.


BTW, I was the "weapons controller".  I vectored our aircraft to the enemy using not much more that what I use in Aces High to spot incoming missions.
We would do a similar pass when at Osan.  During our telephone brief with Blueboy, the GCI control station on the coast, they would frequently, pretty much always, ask for a "bubble check" on our way out to the airspace.  So, it was low, fast, close in, and inverted with the AB cooking in full grunt for noise effect. 



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Re: Phantom Admiration Society
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2014, 03:27:15 PM »
A coworker was an F4 pilot.  I ran into him at a meeting sometime later and ask if he was still flying the F4.  He said, "No.  I lost my edge then I almost made a mistake."  He paused as I remember it then said.  "Its not a plane that forgives mistakes."  That was some forty or so years ago.

Neat plane for sure.

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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2014, 03:35:30 PM »
Sounds like a guy who knew when he was at his limit, and was smart enough to admit it. 



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« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2014, 04:45:22 PM »
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:airplane: Awesome Pic's! What was the climb rate on this "hog"?
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« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2014, 04:48:13 PM »
:airplane: Awesome Pic's! What was the climb rate on this "hog"?
More than the VVI could register (6K if I remember correctly) if clean, light, and fast.
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« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2014, 04:55:23 PM »
More than the VVI could register (6K if I remember correctly) if clean, light, and fast.
:airplane: I don't think they will ever have another with the sound effects of the Phantom!
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« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2014, 04:59:21 PM »
:airplane: I don't think they will ever have another with the sound effects of the Phantom!
Yep, nothing quite like it.  The Blues and T-birds sounded the best when driving the Rhino.



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« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2014, 07:14:24 PM »
I was a kid at Kelly afb when they still ran B-52 through the big hanger in the 60's. You never had to see what was taking off to know it was a phantom. A B-52 was a wall of low heavy sound all over your body no matter where you were in the housing near base. A phantom went from low and heavy all over your body, to an up level volcanic roar like a dragon clearing its throat next to you. And this was in base housing, not at the end of the runway. Two taking of together, a pair of dragons singing a duet trying to break every window in the county. Other AF jets just sounded so quiet even in after burner.
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« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2014, 08:24:44 PM »


Pure grunt horsepower.  Anything that would physically strap on the Phantom could be carried out and dropped on someone's head.



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« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2014, 11:25:59 PM »
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