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"The buc was a great warbird of its time. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧✌️

"The good old buc at best. "❤️ 💪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

Just Beautiful.

Why didn´t they put Harm instead of Refueling Tanks?

RIP Jeff Ethell

90s Raf was cool. Tornados, Jaguars, Nimrod, Vc10, c130 and Harriers. All great aircrafts.

I wonder how the performance of the UK F-4 Phantoms compared to the Tornado F3 in the intended interceptor role. They even started with the same missile armament, both had aerial refueling, etc. Was the Tornado F3 really a big advancement over the F-4? (I am sure that the F3’s radar was eventually better, but in theory the F-4 could have had an upgraded radar). I wonder how the F-4 and F3 would compare in air-to-air combat, even though I recognize that the F3’s purpose was intercepting Backfire bombers, not fighters…

*Air Defence Variant

Only a Phantom with J-79's is a real one.

RAF and spanish air force, the outsiders in the Phantom family.

Brill doco. 12 sqdn was mine :) I was ATC Liaison at Honington.

The F-111 wasn't 'disregarded' - it ended up vastly over budget and late into production. The big problem was that the UK economy was still in a terrible state after the second world war and the US was able to exert undue influence. Should have stuck with the TSR-2 and bought F-15s for air defence in the mid 70s. No denying though that the Phantom was a fantastic aircraft.

This was a wonderful doco, and had a lot of colour footage/interviews and in cockpit camera work I had never seen before, bloody excellent

9:01 suu-23 gun pod

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Great looker

As a 19 year-old in 1973 I was very lucky to get a summer job at the massive McDonnell Aircraft plant in St Louis. Although my assignment dealt with the very first blocks of the new F15, new F4 Phantoms were still being built for export, mostly for West Germany. It is hard to believe that after 50 years, some of the planes that I saw being built new are still in service

36:52 is what your looking for...

Too good looking to stay in service.

Best jet ever

The TSR2 looked terrible comoared with other choices

Duke Mitchell Aircraft

A fantastic aircraft and i had the pleasure of working on these with 54 SQN in the early 70`s at RAF Coningsby..Those were the days ......

As regards the 'fake' sidewinder going through the suez canal. Why on earth would you take if off. At the very least it would've confused the enemy and made us appear considerably less vulnerable. I wonder how many thousands of army, navy and RAF personnel have died over the years due to 'career' officers who only get found out during wartime. HMS Glorious springs to mind for the Brits or Savo Island for the Americans. I know hindsight is 20/20 but no lookout, no aircap and a minimal escort. Both destroyers acquitted themselves admirably and did damage but it should never have happened. Similarly the US ships with radar got theirs asses handed to them during a night attack by an inferior force without radar. A thousand sailors trying to get to their action stations whilst under attack. The old kids games 'blind mans buff' or 'murder in the dark'........who thought that one up?

Thanks to Labour we lost our aircraft industry.

"If we had to buy American, I'm glad we bought this one" might be one of the most British statements from the Cold War era. Right behind Winston Churchill's "Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else". As a US citizen, l can state, without hesitation, that this is imminently true.

Initial thoughts : That guy needs to buy a bigger jacket !!

No mention of the fact that the modifications to help keep jobs in the U.K., the replacement of the J-79 engines with Spey’s which necessitated an actual widening of the airframe, resulted in a model of Phantom that was more expensive yet slower than any other model, yes they were good but if the U.K. had kept them with the original engines they would have been better, and cheaper.

Is one of those pilots David Middleton? If so, I've seen him a few times on the Aircrew Interview channel. Really insightful stuff👍

I think no more of adv

Yes

sexy beast

is this the same f4 from the gate at RAF boulmer?