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Gotta` love them rhinos.

Thanks for the memories! F106 Crew Chief '76-'77. Went to Korea summer of' 77 and worked F4 C's & D's. Did Cope Thunder in P. I. @ Clark AB twice. Then finished up on F105 F&G's at George AB. We were still using cart start on the F105 and we would get all the cartridges just before they ran out of shelf life. Many a false start, and then when you pull the cartridge out it would light off. Some kinda memories.

Love the F4 rather simple to fly as long as you listen to all the querks or she would kick back at ya once you and your reo and the galent gal would become one . Some one has to restore a tomcat F14 another great plane much like the F4 . Nice job guys. Try a Vinton pressure seal.

One of my favorite plains!

If this is the start-up procedure/process, what was it like on a damn carrier! 👍👍

Phantom Phxyer for Life. Crewed F4D's and RF-4C for 17 yrs. Love the aircraft. No other sound like the F4.

I wonder if this is the same f4 I saw fly in Michigan in 2010. A real beauty she was

TSgt/43171/engine run qualified here, worked D, E and G models at George and Torrejon '78 to '84. Good thing QA wasn't around - no fire bottle to be seen, main wheels chocked only on one side, etc. etc.! But I haven't heard a -60 spool up in about 40 years, that was great. It was tough seeing these beautiful birds being converted to drones at Mojave, breaks my heart. Good work guys, keep this thing flying!

IFF stands for Information friend or foe

I'll have to plan on getting out to you guys sometime. My service and aviation history started with OH-58 maintenance/crewchief and went on to get experience on several different helicopters. Anything flying is cool to me, really enjoy your content.

Just a note, the FW190D in the sim should powered by a Junkers Jumo 213. There was one prototype with the DB603 engine, but not the 605. Tip for flying any taildragger: At low speed use full aft stick on the takeoff roll to push the tail into the ground. Once you get enough airspeed you can push the stick forward to get the tail up while you build up speed. Then let it lift off the ground.

That job reminds me of getting hanger queens back up and running! Stick with it boys!

I stood next to these guys on the catapult in full afterburner. My teeth literally rattled in my head. Wonderful memories.

I lovethe f4

We called this the flying rock. It proved with enough engine power anything could fly. Clark AFB Philippines mid 80s.

That Dash 60 comment you made brought back old memories for me of ChuLai,RVN, 1965 VMA 225(Vagabounds) A4 s. Semper Fi

That is sooooo beautiful to see!!

Outstanding.

I wish they would add the version of the spit that had 4 20mm hispanos and no .303s

In the last century, I worked comm/nav on F-4Ds. The AN/APX-76 was the mode 4 system, somewhat unreliable in my experience. Delicate little coax connectors that hooked into the radar package and would often get pulled apart when the radar was slid out for maintenance.

For realism (or to prepare for the wildly outlandish moment when ED adopts Galinette's IFF), you shouldnt have mode 4 on until you hop the fence. Mode 4 responds to an interrogation matching the code of the day (A or B), otherwise it stays silent. The older modes will answer any interrogator however, since they have become civilian standards and dont have the behaviour of mode 4. That makes you eminently conspicuous to anyone who asks. So when flying in friendly airspace, civilian modes (1 3 3/A, C) ON and mode 4 OFF, and at the fence reverse the selection.

I love that ol' bird.

How did you pressurize the fuel system with no engines running? An engine needs to run up to 80% to pressurize the fuel system. I was in VF-96 back when joining the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club was a thing as a flight line troubleshooter with our F-4J's.

My uncle Russell flew F-4 during Vietnam 68 into 69 he later went on fly F-15s but always add a soft spot for the F-4 aka the brick or double ugly but it take a lot of punishment and stay in the air he showed me a couple pictures with 3 ft diameter holes in the port wing and Part of the horizontal stabilizer gone and itstill got him and his rio home I sure Miss him as he died in a motorcycle accident 12 years ago but he was quite the character

is this plane air worthy or just able to start and run it on the ground

I grew up around these, the 03:00 scramble out of Macdill. The struggled fly over in front of a storm from and a aborted landed leaving them no choice but to trail their chute on a go around. The dual air craft take off. the orbiting circle for take off headed to the range at Avaon park and then the return orbit and 180 skids to get turned around to head to final approach. I once got my hands on a chute that was dropped in front a horriffic thunderstorm from a failed landing and chute arrest. I was even there the day the idiot thought it would be cute to pull the ejection lever while people where leaving the airshow. Think it was the same year that the F117 was just three wheels on the ground making you believe the aircraft was invisible. And yes I got to walk under a B1

I always wanted to see and know more about the Collins Foundation and how they cared for their legend of an aircraft. Great video. Keep making more. Maybe one like a prep before leaving for an Air Show.

Phrogs forever!

Wow. Just did the conversion. 8800lbs/hr per engine is 5108L of jet fuel per hour total (given jet fuel at average SG of 0.78). Now double that because he mentioned two engines! Internal fuel capacity of the F-4 Phantom is 12,276L. 15,000L with external tanks. Wow! That is 11.7 metric tons of fuel alone. So wow. You can blast around for a couple hrs and then get the fuck home on one fill up? I doubt the aircraft could get off the ground with full armaments and fuel. Good thing they have flying gas stations. And I thought my Chevy Silverado was a little high.

Guys you are doing a good job!

*Keep this fantastic birds flying, guys!* - What ever it takes!

Wow that’s really cool 😎 thanks 🙏🏻 so much for sharing

We need more of these!

Did you “get your tug” prior to driving the golf cart?

Who's selling Phrogs out there?

Brings back some fond memories from my early years in the Air force working the alert area when we had a sramble, love that F4.

Not quite the proper high power ramp. But itll do.

I saw 3 CH-46s on flatbeds in Mt. Joy, PA

How much $ would it take to get a ride in the F-4?

No better sound than the F-4's out in the 526th starting up on a cool foggy morning at Ramstein.