On Apr 29, 3:56 pm, "TMOliver" wrote:
"Daryl Hunt" wrote in message

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"TMOliver" wrote in message
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Well let's see......

If we accept that the Phantom ever carried a designation "FB-4", then
there
must have been a collateral "FB-105"....(and I sure never heard of that
bird).

Now, there was that short lived F4H.....

I never said the designation was actually given to it. The 4 was the
first
to not carry it. I did state the MD classed it as such. You are just
helping the 404thk00ks to destroy another NG, they have a long list of
Military NGs that they have laid waste to. Be careful.

Amazing, old "Selective Recall" himself has trouble remembering what he
claimed.

You're simply a lying asshole, Hunt, a gormless ****** of minimal ability to
comprehend, grotesque incapacity to glance at reference material, and less
intelligence.

So MD (?) called it a fighter bomber. Quaint, since McDonnell designed and
built it back when it was the F4H (and before there wasa McDonnell/Douglas),
because it couldn't be the F4D, because Donald Douglas's stable already hasd
that lovely bat-winged but short legged AW bird, the Skyray, while McDonnell
had the "passing lamented by few" F3H Demon, and the Phantom II (You don't
remember the Phantom 1, the FH-1 or the Banshee, second of the line?).

Incidentally, you silly twit...

TheF4was designed as a carrier based All Weather Interceptor, as
originally configured with no ability to drop ordnance, simply fuel tank
pylons, pylons/racks for the AIM-9 and a belly configured to nestle Sparrow
IIIs comfortably. The first real big time "combat environment" deployment
came after October, 22, 1962, to Key West, VF-101 IIRC, in a pure
interceptor role.

The F-4 still flies as the QF-4 target drone at Tyndall AFB, if we can
believe the History Channel and its program "The Boneyard".

My neighbor, Bob Downey, flew several of the big Thompson racers in
the post war and later the 85 hp Continental "Midgets". That and
running a paint store.