For Phantom Phans

[Jimbuna]

IMHO one of the best looking fighter planes since the 60's

Salute The Phantom http://www.planestv.com/product/media/salute-phantom-dvd-blu-ray?utm_source=PlanesTV+Newsletter&utm_campaign=45050bf633-Salute_the_Phantom_Out_Now3_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_25ee13b931-45050bf633-255237621&mc_cid=45050bf633&mc_eid=048d72e58b

[Schroeder]

Lovely bird (except for being a heavy smoker which got it the nickname "Air defence Diesel" in the Luftwaffe). I'm already missing them.:wah:

[Platapus]

I never got an actual Phantom bite, but I do have the love scratches on my back from working on her. :salute:

Good aircraft. Still one of the fastest on the deck.

[krashkart]

My first love was the Phantom. My second love was an angry raven haired gal who drank too much and would often disappear for months on end. Guess which of the two I almost married. :O:

[Sailor Steve]

The wrong one. :sunny:

[krashkart]

:yep:

[Jimbuna]

I've a few in my diecast aircraft collection and one is currently on order.

http://s15.postimg.org/5nnkhidzv/IMG_0564.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/e5x0lukif/full/)

http://s18.postimg.org/r5q0rgw1l/IMG_3951a.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/xw6i0wj79/full/)

[MH]

So that is where UK's defence budget is hidden.
Great airplane.:salute:

[Jimbuna]

LOL...cheers :)

[eddie]

I've always thought the F4 was a great looking aircraft too!:up:

[TarJak]

Phantastic

[Oberon]

I've got a bit of a soft spot for the Brick/Rhino, the triumph of thrust over aerodynamics. Never seen one in flight, but admire the low level performance of the Wild Weasel variants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqUgUgiToNs

[Jimbuna]

Amongst my top three favourites alongside the Harrier and Buccaneer.

[TarJak]

The Spey engined RN variant is still my favourite brick.

[Jimbuna]

A strange one....the Phantom being known by most as 'Rhino' and the Buccaneer likewise as 'Brick' or 'Banana'.

[Herr-Berbunch]

One claimed a kill on a Jag in Germany. The Phantom was on QRA from Wildenwrath and on RTB it spotted a Jag to play with but the pilot got too carried away and forgot he had live weapons.

As if firing an AIM-9 wasn't expensive enough, an AIM-9 and a Jaguar would be quite expensive (although the rate we were losing the early Harriers means in reality it was quite negligable!).

The Jag pilot ejected safely, but I'd guess at very shocked (he also ejected a few months later). :D

The Phantom crew were court martialled (unfairly by many peoples' reckoning), as usual it was an accumulation of errors (such as running out of red sticky tape to highlight live weapons).

Still, the Grumman F11F test pilot who shot himself down has to have the best record for blue-on-blue. :har:


Oh, and no thread about Phantoms can not have the obligatory photo of a Wing Commander's final flight after a major service at St Athan.

http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/oldstuff/wow/lowflyf4the-shop.jpg

[Oberon]

A strange one....the Phantom being known by most as 'Rhino' and the Buccaneer likewise as 'Brick' or 'Banana'.

I think that Brick is possibly the American term for the Phantom, as well as the 'Lead Sled' (a name also given to the F84), and the 'Worlds Largest Distributer of MiG parts' :03:

Herr B, I'd never heard of the F11F-1 incident, that is hilarious! :har: I bet the Jag pilot was wary of flying near any Rhinos for a while after, and I thought our Harrier problems were bad enough! :haha:

[Sailor Steve]

I think that Brick is possibly the American term for the Phantom, as well as the 'Lead Sled' (a name also given to the F84), and the 'Worlds Largest Distributer of MiG parts' :03:
The only "Lead Sled" I'm aware of was the Republic F-105 Thunderchief, AKA "ThunderThud" or just "Thud". The Phantom was also known as "Double Ugly".

[Jimbuna]

My nicknames of choice are 'Rhino' for the Phantom and 'Brick' or 'Banana Bomber' for the buccaneer.

[AVGWarhawk]

Love the Phantom. It was quite an aircraft. Top 5 for me. :up:

[Oberon]

The only "Lead Sled" I'm aware of was the Republic F-105 Thunderchief, AKA "ThunderThud" or just "Thud". The Phantom was also known as "Double Ugly".

The 84 got the nickname before the Thud:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_sled#Other_usages

There was also a joke that the F-84 had a built in 'dirt sniffer' that would only release the brakes when it 'sniffed' the dirt at the end of the runway. :03:

[NeonSamurai]

Ah the Phantom. Built with the belief that the days of dog-fighting were long over, and all you would need would be long range missiles, speed, and altitude, not guns and maneuverability. Then 'Nam came about... and boy were they wrong!