Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport

I've wondered why there weren't any more flying F-4's out there in civilian
hands. An article I read a while back mentioned that they are apparently
maintenance hogs with a high maintenance-to-flying hour ratio. I would
imagine that there would not be many civilian Tomcats for the same reason.
Right behind that reason is the deep gov't red tape complicating the tack of
getting one in the first place.

Marco Leon



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As they flashed onto the airbase they lit the afterburners (F4 Phantom)

Just saw a Discovery Channel's show about a company that's rebuilding
the F4 Phantoms back to flying cnodition and than installing autopilots
in them just so they can be used to test A toA and G toA missiles.
What a watse... I'd give my left b*lls (I mean my front tire off of my
car) to get that's been rebuilt.




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In article ,
"Marco Leon" mmleon(at)yahoo.com wrote:

I've wondered why there weren't any more flying F-4's out there in civilian
hands. An article I read a while back mentioned that they are apparently
maintenance hogs with a high maintenance-to-flying hour ratio. I would
imagine that there would not be many civilian Tomcats for the same reason.
Right behind that reason is the deep gov't red tape complicating the tack of
getting one in the first place.

Marco Leon

For openers: Their operating costs approximate that of a mid-size
twin-engined airliner!

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On 5 Dec 2005 14:14:14 -0800, "Denny" wrote:

...there they were coming from the west
in a battle line, tree top high and pedal to the metal... As they
flashed onto the airbase they lit the afterburners...

About 20 years ago I was working at NAS Lakehurst when the Blue Angels
arrived on a Friday for that weekend's airshow. We (everybody in the
engineering building) heard them coming first, roaring balls to the
wall maybe 50' over our roof. Sounded like the building was going to
come down! Everybody ran outside to watch a 10 minute impromptu
airshow they put on before they landed... much better than the
[public] airshow the next day.

-Dana


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