In article ,
Fred J. McCall wrote:

Charles Gray wrote:

: Only reasonable, since you have to add stuff to an airframe to make
:it carrier worthy, in addiiton to other improvements. To use it the
ther way around, either all you do is take some bits off, or just
:leave them as is. (I recall some German F-4's at an airshow that
:still had the arresting hook.).

Are you sure it was an arresting hook and not a 'short field' hook,
which is much lighter in structure?

All of the F-4s at George AFB back in the 1980s (F-4E and -G models) had
the same arrestor hooks I see in photos of Navy and Marine F-4s. Pretty
serious piece of metal, too... here's a photo that shows the general
size of it:

http://www.b-domke.de/AviationImages/Phantom/1333.html

I don't know if I ever saw a Phantom with anything other than the
standard hook at George.

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