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[APDrone]

I'm sorry.. am I the only one that simply cannot get excited about the Phantom?

It was big, and a missle platform.

Not a gunfighter.

And it made a lot of smoke...

[Puma44]

I'm sorry.. am I the only one that simply cannot get excited about the Phantom?

It was big, and a missle platform.

Not a gunfighter.

And it made a lot of smoke...

Yes, you are the only one. 

Not a gunfighter?  Have you flown one?

Smokers until smokeless engines where installed.  Then, there was virtually no smoke. But, the previous smokers were good at blowing smoke and cinders in the face of an opponent.  😉

[APDrone]

lol.. of course not..

No, I am a Crusader fan.. and the next generation, Crusader III, competed against the F4 and lost.

When I was in college in the '80s , F4s would land at Charleston AFB on occasion.  Our school was along one of the approaches, so I got to see a few come in.. slow, loud, and smokin'

When I saw this meme, that immediately came back from memory.

[Nefarious]

Blasphemous.

And... It's ok like to the Crusader and the Phantom.   

[Puma44]

Puma may remember the details, but I suspect that if our squad pooled its lives, fortunes and sacred honor to putting JP4 in that plane, we'd run empty and stallspincrashburn about 300 feet off the end of the runway.

Maybe not even burn.

Still, it's a pleasant thought.

- oldman

During my time flying it, the hourly was $3,000/hour.