The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX

[hlg6016]

That F4 is bad-assed, like a classic muscle car!

 

[707guy]

QF-4E from Tyndall - flew in a Heritage Flight with a P-51 and A-10 at last year's Cleveland National Air Show.

 

[BusyBee604]

That F4 is bad-assed, like a classic muscle car!

You got that right, hlg. The venerable 'badass' pfantum could flash by anything airborne (except the KA-3/6/7, KC-10/130/135 et al.)!


I've been told that max endurance for a fully fueled F-4 @ 100%, full blowers, at SL. is ~8-10 minutes. Catmando you got lotsa' F-4 green ink high-speed, low-level egress hours, does that compute?
BzB

 

[jmcquate]

From an Andrews JSOH a few years back and a MiG killer at Udvar Hasey.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

You got that right, hlg. The venerable 'badass' pfantum could flash by anything airborne (except the KA-3/6/7, KC-10/130/135 et al.)!
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I've been told that max endurance for a fully fueled F-4 @ 100%, full blowers, at SL. is ~8-10 minutes. Catmando you got lotsa' F-4 green ink high-speed, low-level egress hours, does that compute?
BzB

Just like an old muscle car, pass anything but the gas station or tanker.

 

[MIDNJAC]

I've been told that max endurance for a fully fueled F-4 @ 100%, full blowers, at SL. is ~8-10 minutes.
BzB

That's not actually that far off the mark for a legacy Hornet in MAX AB. I've flown 0.6-ish BFM hops that were logged liberally to help out OPS, including 10-12 min transit each way.

 

[Catmando]

You got that right, hlg. The venerable 'badass' pfantum could flash by anything airborne (except the KA-3/6/7, KC-10/130/135 et al.)!
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I've been told that max endurance for a fully fueled F-4 @ 100%, full blowers, at SL. is ~8-10 minutes. Catmando you got lotsa' F-4 green ink high-speed, low-level egress hours, does that compute?
BzB

I think it was 12 minutes. But that also was with the additional 600 gallon centerline drop tank!

BTW, I never ran out of gas. But I came close many times, as did many. You could suck her dry in a heartbeat, and in the heat of battle. Some great guys I know were not so lucky. And of those that made it RTB, I know a number who flamed out before the refueling pits.

[ps: 'pfantum' my ass, bzb! It is the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II Multirole Fighter that is regarded as one of the more successful fighter designs of all time! LINK]​

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[helolumpy]

I think this speaks for itself...

 

[BusyBee604]

Hows come that beady-eyed, evil looking Phantom guy looks like he's flashin' a schoolyard?
BzB

 

[Catmando]

That's not actually that far off the mark for a legacy Hornet in MAX AB. I've flown 0.6-ish BFM hops that were logged liberally to help out OPS, including 10-12 min transit each way.

Using re-heat judiciously – which we trained to do, if adrenalin didn't overcome us – we could make our 17,000# of JP-4 last for about an hour for ACM – Air Combat Maneuvering training (what later and is now regrettably called "BFM" (sounds like a fricken, non-combat bowel movement!!!))

Of course the RED LOW FUEL warning light was always on upon landing at NKX.

 

[Catmando]

Hows come that beady-eyed, evil looking Phantom guy looks like he's flashin' a schoolyard?
BzB

If it were true, it would be a light-attack schoolyard!

Fox-2; set up another!

 

[BusyBee604]

Air Combat Maneuvering training (what later and is now regrettably called "BFM" (sounds like a fricken, (+1 non-combat bowel movement!!!))

BFM = Basic Flight Maneuvering, huh? New PC term for ol' fashioned DOGFIGHTING? Don't want our terrorist enemies to think we're training for...gasp, COMBAT!
BzB

 

[Swanee]

BFM is Basic Fighter Maneuvering right???

 

[BusyBee604]

BFM is Basic Fighter Maneuvering right???

I dunno fer shure, looked it up in 'Military Acronyms' and it said as cited above???
BzB

 

[navyao]

It gets worse, a bit further north......

Yes! He's even playing a banjo!