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Not soon, I hope!God, when will the pics stop???
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Being a child of the 60s, the Phantom was THE fighter when I was young. It is still my all-time favorite fixed wing aircraft.
For my 14th birthday I received a copy of "...And Kill Migs" by Lou Drendel, which was my introduction to his superb artwork (see post 6 for examples), and the stories of what that bird could do. I highly recomend it.
One shelf of my bookcase is still nothing but books on the F-4.
I used to build models, and tried to do all the Phantoms I liked in 1/72 scale. When I stopped, I had built 41 of them
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When we did dissimilar air combat with our CH-53s Vs Phantoms, we called them 'Smokers'. When they were at lower power settings, you could often see their exhaust plume with a dot at the front, so we were able to pick them up visually earlier than we otherwise would have. When they bumped the power up, the smoke disappeared.
I saw the Collins Foundation Phantom at the Randolph AFB airshow last year, very cool to see one again.
Cheers