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Originally posted by Expert308:
IMO the two sexiest aircraft in history are the F-4 Phantom and the F-4U Corsair. Something about bent wings, maybe? Oh, I used to own a Nikon F4 too. I sold it to finance my first DSLR, and still regret it.

You, Sir, have excellent taste in aircraft.

I was stationed at Clark Air Base, RP in 1970/71 and saw Phantoms all the time.

I went to an air show at Owl's Head here in Maine and saw a F4U Corsair do a low altitude (really, REALLY low...) pass, pull up, go around, land and taxi up to within 100 feet of me. I needed a towel and a cigarette...

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One thing nice about the F4 is the cockpit roominess. Something that the Skyhawk, Harrier, and even the F-16 suffer from the lack of.

I do think a lot of planes are cool, but the F4 has unique style.. as well as a "no problem thrust can't solve" attitude.

When I lived on Bergstrom Air Force Base, my Dad and I watched them take off all the time.
Of course I loved the Thunderbirds.

the muscle car version of fighter jets

Absolute fact!

If it’s got a big enough engine, even a brick will fly. LOL

The local military museum has one. One thing pictures never due justice is how long the F4 is in person. The engines are about as long as the entire jets nearby the F4.

I asked my father in law, a man of few words,
what it was like to fly in an F4. His exact words “it was intense”.

That was about all I could get out of him, the man does not like to talk about his time in the US Navy unfortunately.

The history of it, and its record, and the look, and engineering, and lethality. Are there "better" jets? Yes.

I kinda feel that way about the M14.

Excuse me sir but your tail wing is upside down.

We had a squadron of F4s in Birmingham when I was a kid. My dad was an aircraft mechanic in the early 60s but he only got to work on prop planes. He always liked the F4 and always commented on the upside down tail.

The first thing that came to mind...

The F-4 phantom is long outdated now, but it will always hold a special place in my heart, as it always brought me equal numbers across the Mekong river, and most of the times with both engines still pushing.

I used to enjoy watching F4s all of the time around Bergstrom AFB in Austin, now Austin Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA).

The "Rock the Casbah" music video by The Clash includes clips of F4s on landing approach at Bergstrom. See 2:34 and on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ

As a kid in the 60s I had a model of the F4, my favorite of the time. Still love to see them fly at airshows.

Many years ago we were camping at Round Springs State Park when the Missouri Air National Guard flew their F-4s very fast and low over the park. Hard to forget that.