Man...this brings back memories. As a F-4C crew chief , I spent many hours in the heat, cold, snow and rain strapping in aircrews, preflighting, postflighting, refueling, installing drag chutes, servicing LOX etc. Even flew a gunnery range mission in the back of my aircraft. Spent 4 years in the USAF and looking back after all so many years, I think that I got the best of the bargain !
I used to watch them take-off as a formation of 4 from Kadena AB Okinawa... from next to the runway... nothing on earth has shaken me like those group scrambles. Greatest sound ever!
Mike Lawrence I got a hop in a F 4J in 1968 with VMFA 451. They had new birds with no AWG-10 Radar. RIO’s got tired of bombing missions only, so they opened up back seat school to the enlisted. My VMFA 312 ComNav day crew Sgt. let me go for extra duty section weekends. We flew down to Pinecastle, bombing range SE of Jacksonville. We did 8000 ft rocket and bomb attacks in a two plane element. Came home to Beaufort via Jax Beach at 500 ft.
When I was eighteen years old the F-4 phantom II was the fighter plane. I am sixty three now and I still respect that awesome jet fighter. It was a powerful, fast,ugly, beautiful fighter.
So sweet, I had a friend of 3 years, fought in Vietnam, gib, I miss him dearly, F 4 phantoms, he loved. His name was George Laskowski, he lost his life to mesothilioma, a true friend.
Dick Barnett it could also sustain serious battle damage and still get you out safe. Triple redundancy control systems. I know this from first hand experience. If you want hairy accounts talk to Naval Aviators, both Navy and Marine Corps. We were down in the shit doing close-in air support.
From 1980-85 I lived in Israel near the Lebanese Border....every day we'd see the IAF F4's similating Dogfights in the sky. If they saw us in the fields they'd sometimes try and take us by suprise by coming in so low that you saw Maize fields being parted by the downdraught from the afterburners. Their idea of a joke i think. Come the conflict in Lebanon you'd see them going North fully loaded up.....an awesome sight. I have fond memories of these iconic Warplanes.
I was an F-4C crew chief in England. Man...what a beast of an aircraft. Flew in the back seat of my aircraft on a gunnery range mission at Decimomannu AB, Sardinia and then out over the Med for aerial combat tactics. Shithot ! Go Air Force !
Nothing like the sound of an F-4 flying over your head. The design and profile were simply awesome. Seeing these planes fly was always a thrill. They had a very unique sound overhead. Love the tail section and the nose, just looks like flying death at mach 2. Watching them go to afterburner was also fantastic. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is the best looking jet fighter ever. Bitchin airplane!!
Don't talk to me about "exotic" composites, carbon fiber etc... The F4 Phantom is the most beautiful fighter jet of all time!!!! They are so screaming loud and smokey when they do a flyover!!! Beautiful,..
Did many early preflight inspections at 4AM as a F-4 crew chief.....can still remember the red indirect cockitpit lighting. There is nothing like the smell of jet exhaust.....a few times while passing LaGuardia airport in my car, I could smell the exhaust from the jet airliners lining up for take off. Took me right back to the F-4
As a former "Phantom Phixer" this video is the motherlode. Thanks for letting us hear those twin J-79's roar and screetch. Best airplane the Thunderbirds ever used. Noise noise noise!11 Thank you.
Old saying about the F4...... if you put a big enough engine on a brick, you can make it fly. Amazing airplane! It did, and still does, more things than it was ever designed for.
I agree. I used to hear its scream as it came in for landing out on YANKEE Station in the Tonkin Gulf. I was aboard a destroyer (USS Benner) plane guarding for USS Ranger during the fall 1969 WESTPAC deployment. That is the sound of VICTORY!
You are so fortunate. The F-4 is my all-time favorite fighter. Sure today's fighters are high tech and all, but nothing compares to the lines and curves of the Phantom. It looks like somebody closed the hanger doors on it, but it is one mean-looking fighter. The last true fighter
awesome! once, I was in Reno and I saw a 4 F-4 USAF Reserve I suppose to make a Take Off and 30 minutes later they came again, perform Peel Off and land. I never forget that. By the way, this is the most beautiful fighter ever made! If I were an american, certainly I´d my best efforts to enter in the USAF just to flight this fighter! THnx for bringing us this video!
The Phantom was by far the best war plane the west had during the cold war era. Kudos to the Israeli Airforce for developing it to the high standards it was during the yom kippur war. It ensure air supremacy for the IAF which determined the outcome of that unfortunate war.
I don't know if anyone else feals this way but when I see and hear a American fighter jet screaming through the sky to me it is the sound of freedom, and the sound of what protects our freedom. Makes you proud of being a American.
I don't have tinnitus, I have upper frequency loss from working on the F4-D in the USAF during the early 70's. Mouse ears...we doan need no stinkin' mouse ears...(ear protection).
in 1957 when they started rolling them things out. that must have looked like a space ship back then. good God. always one of my all time fighers untill the rolled out the f-15, my god, i was in love.
@YappyRaccoon I know but this is as close as I can get but I agree nothing beats the sound of raw J79s screaming over your head it is the greatest sound to ever bless my ears
First time I saw a phantom do an airshow demo was at Nellis this year...Good GOD what a monster. If I was 20 years older I would have gladly taken one of the last F-4 slots out of UPT
It will be 43 years ago next August since I co directed my first close air support.. I could never get Air Force F-4 pilots to come in low enough to hit anything.. Never had that problem with Marine or Navy pilots...
Was an AMH-2 in VF-21 on CV-61 in '79 when the carrier hit a tanker in Singapore straights and amost sank it...the tanker I mean. I remember the Phantom aerodynamics being compared to a barn door with big-ass engines. Seemed right.
Was an AT3 in VA-145 sitting on the front of the flight deck and realized we were going to collide with the tanker so I started running and kept my eyes on the front of the flight deck when I ran right into the nose cone just forward of the cockpit of an F-4 on the left side of the flight deck that was doing an engine run. Looked up and saw the shock on the plane captain's face at what I'd done, then realized the engine was running and dropped under the nose cone and ran aft! When I looked back I saw the plane captain open the canopy and jump all the way to the ground having realized what I was running from! Very thankful to still be here......
280StJohnsPI: I was the weapons release guy you were always yelling at to hurry up and get that missile launcher bolted back into the fuselage so it could taxi...
Man...this brings back memories.
As a F-4C crew chief , I spent many hours in the heat, cold, snow and rain strapping in aircrews, preflighting, postflighting, refueling, installing drag chutes, servicing LOX etc.
Even flew a gunnery range mission in the back of my aircraft.
Spent 4 years in the USAF and looking back after all so many years, I think that I got the best of the bargain !
Brilliant engineering for the time period. Love the F-4 Phantom.
Best multi-use fighter jet ever built. It could even out-climb the MIG's in Vietnam. And such a good-looking aircraft.
One of the most majestic aircraft ever made. They look neat, sound incredible, and haul ass! What more could you ask for?
They are as tough as old nails these F4s Bad Boys
knucklehead0202 in the mid 60’s, misses that worked!
I used to watch them take-off as a formation of 4 from Kadena AB Okinawa... from next to the runway... nothing on earth has shaken me like those group scrambles. Greatest sound ever!
Sitting in the back seat was the best thrill ride ever. VMFA 531 & VMFA 212.
Mike Lawrence I got a hop in a F 4J in 1968 with VMFA 451. They had new birds with no AWG-10 Radar. RIO’s got tired of bombing missions only, so they opened up back seat school to the enlisted. My VMFA 312 ComNav day crew Sgt. let me go for extra duty section weekends.
We flew down to Pinecastle, bombing range SE of Jacksonville. We did 8000 ft rocket and bomb attacks in a two plane element.
Came home to Beaufort via Jax Beach at 500 ft.
THESE ARE BEASTS OF AIRCAFT!!!!!!!!!
Since I was a kid and played with my model of the F4, I always thought was the most beautiful plane ... and I still do now ... Do you agree?
Yes!
When I was eighteen years old the F-4 phantom II was the fighter plane. I am sixty three now and I still respect that awesome jet fighter. It was a powerful, fast,ugly, beautiful fighter.
So sweet, I had a friend of 3 years, fought in Vietnam, gib, I miss him dearly, F 4 phantoms, he loved. His name was George Laskowski, he lost his life to mesothilioma, a true friend.
ugly? I think they are quite beautiful
Dick Barnett it could also sustain serious battle damage and still get you out safe. Triple redundancy control systems. I know this from first hand experience. If you want hairy accounts talk to Naval Aviators, both Navy and Marine Corps. We were down in the shit doing close-in air support.
What a RUSH! My uncle flew these until 1991. He retired then and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Hell to the yeah! Brings back great Air Force memories!
From 1980-85 I lived in Israel near the Lebanese Border....every day we'd see the IAF F4's similating Dogfights in the sky. If they saw us in the fields they'd sometimes try and take us by suprise by coming in so low that you saw Maize fields being parted by the downdraught from the afterburners. Their idea of a joke i think. Come the conflict in Lebanon you'd see them going North fully loaded up.....an awesome sight. I have fond memories of these iconic Warplanes.
I was an F-4C crew chief in England.
Man...what a beast of an aircraft. Flew in the back seat of my aircraft on a gunnery range mission at Decimomannu AB, Sardinia and then out over the Med for aerial combat tactics.
Shithot !
Go Air Force !
Nothing like the sound of an F-4 flying over your head. The design and profile were simply awesome. Seeing these planes fly was always a thrill. They had a very unique sound overhead. Love the tail section and the nose, just looks like flying death at mach 2. Watching them go to afterburner was also fantastic. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is the best looking jet fighter ever. Bitchin airplane!!
the F4 is about the only fighter jet I find aesthetically pleasing- maybe also some Russian MiGs
Don't talk to me about "exotic" composites, carbon fiber etc... The F4 Phantom is the most beautiful fighter jet of all time!!!! They are so screaming loud and smokey when they do a flyover!!! Beautiful,..
Wow great video!! Just the raw sound and sight of them!! Would LOVE to fly in one of those tanks with wings!!
Lethal looking chocked and chained and more so in flight on afterburners screaming J79s.
..whatta fabulous bird,!
Did many early preflight inspections at 4AM as a F-4 crew chief.....can still remember the red indirect cockitpit lighting.
There is nothing like the smell of jet exhaust.....a few times while passing LaGuardia airport in my car, I could smell the exhaust from the jet airliners lining up for take off.
Took me right back to the F-4
As a former "Phantom Phixer" this video is the motherlode. Thanks for letting us hear those twin J-79's roar and screetch. Best airplane the Thunderbirds ever used.
Noise noise noise!11 Thank you.
Phabulous video! It brought back memories of working with this incredible plane! Thanks phor sharing!
Beautiful and powerful Phantom II!
Old saying about the F4...... if you put a big enough engine on a brick, you can make it fly.
Amazing airplane! It did, and still does, more things than it was ever designed for.
Dude ... that was awesome!
the md f4f phantom is THE best fighter ever PERIOD!i have loved phantoms since the age of 7! im 40 now.
I agree. I used to hear its scream as it came in for landing out on YANKEE Station in the Tonkin Gulf. I was aboard a destroyer (USS Benner) plane guarding for USS Ranger during the fall 1969 WESTPAC deployment. That is the sound of VICTORY!
The F-4 Phantom, the most manly jet-fighter of all time...and there's not even a close second.
Simply beautiful and phabulus
Beautiful Bird
You are so fortunate. The F-4 is my all-time favorite fighter. Sure today's fighters are high tech and all, but nothing compares to the lines and curves of the Phantom. It looks like somebody closed the hanger doors on it, but it is one mean-looking fighter. The last true fighter
Love the f4,
outstanding! the USMC fighter/bomber during my service 77-81.
awesome! once, I was in Reno and I saw a 4 F-4 USAF Reserve I suppose to make a Take Off and 30 minutes later they came again, perform Peel Off and land. I never forget that. By the way, this is the most beautiful fighter ever made! If I were an american, certainly I´d my best efforts to enter in the USAF just to flight this fighter! THnx for bringing us this video!
The Phantom was by far the best war plane the west had during the cold war era. Kudos to the Israeli Airforce for developing it to the high standards it was during the yom kippur war. It ensure air supremacy for the IAF which determined the outcome of that unfortunate war.
I don't know if anyone else feals this way but when I see and hear a American fighter jet screaming through the sky to me it is the sound of freedom, and the sound of what protects our freedom. Makes you proud of being a American.
I don't have tinnitus, I have upper frequency loss from working on the F4-D in the USAF during the early 70's. Mouse ears...we doan need no stinkin' mouse ears...(ear protection).
Funny, the air force said my hearing improved after 4 years on the flightline working F-4C/D/E in '71-'75.
Fantastic Fighter-Design. I Love this Phantom
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Der Inbegriff eines Jägers
A close second on the most beautiful to the F-102.
Former F-4 crew chief
Super!
totally agree! the design is superb! just something about the f4.
Welcome Home, I was there 1967-1968 and saw many F-4's.
As an old Marine Ordnanceman I love those War Pigs!!!! Every time we launched them we begged for Max Climb!! VMFA232 Red Devils
From the time I was 18 until I was 38 I worked on F4 Radars or instructed others to work on them.
Finally a video loud enough that I can hear it over my Tinnitus.
Thank you!!
One of the best looking fighters in my opinion
@YappyRaccoon I totally agree. i lived 5 miles away from the Home of the F-4 in California. George Air-force Base
in 1957 when they started rolling them things out. that must have looked like a space ship back then. good God. always one of my all time fighers untill the rolled out the f-15, my god, i was in love.
huge raptor fan but goddamn u are right the phantom is a cracked out rocket with wings!
Seen these many times; surprised how steep that would climb and. oh yeah, as part of 601st photo squadron developed movie film of these.
"My Little F4" by The Seatbelts ...perfect
LOUD AND PROUD
Got a thousand hours in the phantom in the sixties. Now, at age seventy five, I think I could go for one more ride.
The Collings Foundation has a flyable model. They give hops,$10,000.
The best of the Phantom is when it routed Arab armies in the Yom Kippur War of October 1973.
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The first flight was flown May 27, 1958. The F-4 was delivered to combat units in December 1960 starting with the U.S. Navy as the F-4B...
@YappyRaccoon I know but this is as close as I can get but I agree nothing beats the sound of raw J79s screaming over your head it is the greatest sound to ever bless my ears
First time I saw a phantom do an airshow demo was at Nellis this year...Good GOD what a monster. If I was 20 years older I would have gladly taken one of the last F-4 slots out of UPT
Cool lightning behind the Phantom at 6:01
Was a "Phantom Phyxer" from '65-'69 and I miss the screams too!! Used to have a good .wav file for it but lost it in a pc move.
Hearing this online is a pitiful comparison to the glorious real sound it makes.
A beautiful dinosaur
It will be 43 years ago next August since I co directed my first close air support.. I could never get Air Force F-4 pilots to come in low enough to hit anything.. Never had that problem with Marine or Navy pilots...
@pennridgeboy
Me too. I was lucky enough to get a back seat hop in 1968. Semper Phantom Fidelis.
ill finally get to see a phantom fly at an airshow. i cant wait! there will be a flight demo in cleveland!
...and now with our marvelous engineering and scientific skills, we have DRONES.
Or canoeing the current river in the mid 80's and seeing them do acm from a distance!
The F-4 is louder than a Tie Fighter.
awesome my window is rattled
Was an AMH-2 in VF-21 on CV-61 in '79 when the carrier hit a tanker in Singapore straights and amost sank it...the tanker I mean.
I remember the Phantom aerodynamics being compared to a barn door with big-ass engines. Seemed right.
Was an AT3 in VA-145 sitting on the front of the flight deck and realized we were going to collide with the tanker so I started running and kept my eyes on the front of the flight deck when I ran right into the nose cone just forward of the cockpit of an F-4 on the left side of the flight deck that was doing an engine run. Looked up and saw the shock on the plane captain's face at what I'd done, then realized the engine was running and dropped under the nose cone and ran aft! When I looked back I saw the plane captain open the canopy and jump all the way to the ground having realized what I was running from! Very thankful to still be here......
6:00 *LIGNTNING bolt across the sky in the background!!*
i tried to enlist in 1972 cos i wanted to fly these bad boys. was thouroughly pissed when i found out women couldn't fly in combat!
nothing gives you the creeps like the f4
@YappyRaccoon I miss the moaning and screaming sounds they made while in the pattern!
pretty bird
The loudest jet I've ever heard...even louder than the F-14...
@YappyRaccoon Or when your sitting on the railraod tracks and see them whip by full afterburner at low altitude
Need the Seatbelts Phantom f4 Rock theme song on this..
These are now mostly retired with a few ones left for airshows and that is good for those who love old jets today.
@JMStudios1991 It's best when you are hiking on a mountain and a few of them go whipping by dodging the crags.
3:02 - 3:11, is hat a carrier based Phanton, seems like it has a landing grapple.
Love the F4.. Nice vid, but try to turn off the potatoe function on the camera next time..
how about hearing a B-2 spirit bomber fly right next to your passenger aircraft flight
1:09 to 1:14 gave me goosebumps!
min. 1.02 "Bavarian" Air Force!
turn n burn
@moahoah thanx man appreciate it
F-4 THE ULTIMATE WAR BIRD
I don't think they had any computers with design programme yet in 1958.
When you see it come in right above the ground nose-up, you start to understand why designers built it with a nose pointing down.
The nose was built that way so pilots could see the carrier deck to land
a real low pass is this one
check for it
Greek F-4 Phantom ( HAF ), extremely low flight over the Aegean sea!
@JMStudios1991 You definitely won't hear a train coming.
280StJohnsPI: I was the weapons release guy you were always yelling at to hurry up and get that missile launcher bolted back into the fuselage so it could taxi...
1 Truckman
Just saw your post :)
Can I ask the meaning behind "1 Truckman" please
ACE COMBAT 4
Yup.You just know the fella that did all the design drawings for the 67 Shelby mustangs body parts had F-4 on the brain.
Were the F-4's forms designed by computer?
there is no better sound than the f4 it rips
@kjhuffman1 That's fixed now.
when jets were JETS.
Wish you could make it as loud as it really is.
why isnt fortunate son playing?