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Message started by Gyrobob on 08/19/11 at 21:55:34

Title: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by Gyrobob on 08/19/11 at 21:55:34

Some of my USAF buddies saw that someone had published a video I did in 1985 about the Phantom II crewmember. It was a pretty ragged copy, so I found the original VHS tape, and put it on under the title "The Original Phantom II Crewmember F-4 _ A-10"

There is also an A-10 shoot-em-up video there.

Click here to view them: http://youtu.be/rdL93jwVK-c

or,... do a search for gyrobobb (I had to use an additional b)

or,... search for crewtrib

Title: Re: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by Tiefighterpilot on 08/21/11 at 10:39:30

Beautiful planes. Funny video.

Title: Re: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by Gyrobob on 08/21/11 at 10:42:45

5E636F6C636D627E6F787A6366657E0A0 wrote:

Beautiful planes. Funny video.

Thanks,

I always thought the F-4 was so ugly it looked cool. The A-10,... well,....

Title: Re: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by verslagen1 on 08/21/11 at 10:56:35

The F-4 was proof positive that if you had a big enough engine you could get a brick to fly.

The A-10 was simply function over form. Who couldn't love a flying bomb rack mounted to a BFG?

Thanks for the video.

Title: Re: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by arteacher on 08/21/11 at 17:11:47

I think the most beautiful fighter ever built is the F111, with the Avro Arrow a very close second.

Title: Re: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by arteacher on 08/21/11 at 17:16:55

"The F-4 was proof positive that if you had a big enough engine you could get a brick to fly."
The Messerschmidt BF109 proved that in 1939.

Title: Re: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/21/11 at 17:17:34

Ive heard it said that the A-10 was the prettiest plane in the world, by men who were on the battlefield & in need of air support.

Title: Re: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by Gyrobob on 08/21/11 at 18:07:29

The guys I knew that flew the A-10 LOVED it. They said all that existed in the universe when you pulled the trigger was that gun going off!!!, ..spewing out 70 30mm bullets every second,.... and their body was strapped to that gun!!!

Title: Re: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by Gyrobob on 08/21/11 at 18:08:27

26393F3825221323132B39357E4C0 wrote:

Ive heard it said that the A-10 was the prettiest plane in the world, by men who were on the battlefield & in need of air support.

They said the same thing about F-4s in Nam.

Title: Re: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by Gyrobob on 08/21/11 at 18:18:45

2B382F2E313C3A38336C5D0 wrote:

The F-4 had TWO big enough engines.

Title: Re: Just put new F-4 and A-10 video on Youtube
Post by ALfromN.H. on 08/22/11 at 03:20:54

I worked on Marine Corps F4's for about 3 years in the late 70's, early 80's. Very impressive bird. My job was to take care of the aircrew survival equipment. Fixed parachutes, life rafts, helmets, oxygen masks, etc. I also went aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea. Our squadron had 15 F4's when we left frisco, cmae home with 13. One fell off the flight deck when it was being parked by a tow tractor. The other one caught on fire on the catapult, so they just lanched it so the pilot and co-pilot could eject. Bopth ejection seats worked as advertised as well as the parachutes and life rafts. I ended my military life in late 1981, a couple months before I would have been sent to school to learn how to work on the F18's. Here's a picture of one of my squadron's jets on the catapult.
http://p1.bikepics.com/2008/11/11/bikepics-1479137-800.jpg