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Probably my favorite picture ever of the Phabulous PH-4 Phantom.

What’s your favorite plane? What’s your favorite plane picture? That’s an F-4E, and I belive the MY tail code is Seymour Johnson AFB, sometime in the mid 1980s.   BTW, there’s an interesting difference between how the Navy and the Air Force developed the various sub-types of F-4. The Navy F-4B and F-4J (and their…

What’s your favorite plane? What’s your favorite plane picture?

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That’s an F-4E, and I belive the MY tail code is Seymour Johnson AFB, sometime in the mid 1980s.

 

BTW, there’s an interesting difference between how the Navy and the Air Force developed the various sub-types of F-4.

The Navy F-4B and F-4J (and their F-4N and F-4S mods) always had a limited ground attack capability, but were always optimized for the air to air role.

The Air Force, on the other hand, would modify some parts of the C, D, and E fleets to be optimized for the air to ground role, with sensors and navigation equipment that made some of their jets very formidable precision strike aircraft. Meanwhile, other parts of the Air Force fleet were still very optimized for the air to air role.

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  1. LT Rusty

    I’m always going to have a soft spot for this picture: https://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Snort-practice.jpg
    Among my other favorites, though…
    http://www.public.iastate.edu/~s_g_t/Images/Aircraft/F-14%20silhouette.jpg
    http://www.pacificaviationmuseum.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/blog-post-11.png
    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/soupic/soubar2.jpg
    http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/55cb512c2acae78b0e8bf56e-1200/arguably-the-coolest-paint-job-in-the-history-of-military-aviation-vx-4s-vandy-one-was-a-big-hit-on-cross-countries-and-at-airshowsin-the-days-before-the-playboy-bunny-came-to-represent-pure-evil-and-jags-figured-out-the-us-navy-wasin-gross-violation-of-copyright-laws.jpg
    (Incidentally, if you hadn’t already realized it? Tomcat is pretty much my favorite plane ever.)

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  2. Mark Morgan

    347th TFW, Moody AFB, GA. One of the “last stands” of the Phantom in the RegAF, exchanged them for F-16A/Bs in 1988.

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  3. Mark Morgan

    BTW, the 4th Fighter Wing’s still at Seymour Johnson, SJ tailcode, flying F-15Es.

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  4. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    Favorite prop a/c DeHavilland Mosquito. Favorite jet, F-100 Super Sabre.

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  5. Heh

    Recently I was trying to find a good source on the exact differences between the Navy and USAF versions of the F-4. Was it mainly avionics? Was there anything structural?

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  6. Captain Ned

    @ Heh:
    http://www.airvectors.net/avf4.html

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  7. Paul L. Quandt

    My favorite jet is the F-86 for subsonics and the F-104 for supersonics.
    Paul

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  8. dhmosquito

    Three favorite aircraft: deHavilland Mosquito PR.XVI; BAC TSR.2, Convair B-58A. cheers chuck

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  9. Casey

    To this day I still bounce back & forth between the P-40 (Flying Tigers markings) and the P-38.
    The Spit is a beauty in her own class…

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  10. Mark Morgan

    Favorite prop? Anything with a Merlin engine. Favorite jet? Intruder, of course!

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  11. Quartermaster

    A Navy boy loving on the USAF?

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  12. R Kunkle

    AF Retired. In the prop category both the P-38 Lighting and P-51 Mustang. When it comes to jet, always loved the F-15 but adore the F-111. No offensive capability but can go low and extremely fast.

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