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F4 Phantom business end at Pima Air Museum.
There are 2 of these huge J79 Howler Engines propelling this Mack Truck of an airplane. In my teens and twenties this was the "hot" airplane. Living in Europe close to the runway at Ramstein, the noise of these planes would crack windows and caused the ceiling to come down in the workshop next to my apartment, luckily nobody was there at the time. When they flew there was incredible noise and they left a nice smoky trail. In this model the carrier arresting hook is stowed. Designed in the fifties, both the engine and the plane itself were stunning examples of very advanced design, which was taking huge jumps as more and more wind tunnel data became available. This was, and still is an excellent airplane and thousands of them were built. The development time was very short. Compare this device to the current F35 which is a hopeless overweight and underperforming dud. I would not be surprised at all if this old plane could easily take on an F35 in a flyoff.
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F4 Phantom business end at Pima Air Museum.
There are 2 of these huge J79 Howler Engines propelling this Mack Truck of an airplane. In my teens and twenties this was the "hot" airplane. Living in Europe close to the runway at Ramstein, the noise of these planes would crack windows and caused the ceiling to come down in the workshop next to my apartment, luckily nobody was there at the time. When they flew there was incredible noise and they left a nice smoky trail. In this model the carrier arresting hook is stowed. Designed in the fifties, both the engine and the plane itself were stunning examples of very advanced design, which was taking huge jumps as more and more wind tunnel data became available. This was, and still is an excellent airplane and thousands of them were built. The development time was very short. Compare this device to the current F35 which is a hopeless overweight and underperforming dud. I would not be surprised at all if this old plane could easily take on an F35 in a flyoff.