F-4 Phantom II

...that were harassing neutral shipping in the Straits of Hormuz. During that battle, which saw five surface craft sunk and three F-4 Phantom fighters defeated, USS Vincennes shot down an unidentified aircraft that turned out to be Iran Air...

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...the first nonstop flight around the world on a single tank of gas. After driving by a line up of F-4 Phantoms awaiting conversion to QF-4 Phantoms by BAE systems, Rice casually points to what appears to be a normal Lockheed L-1011. Except...

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...then in New Mexico, where he was one of two out of 35 trainees selected to fly jet fighters. After some months spent mastering the F-4 Phantom, he was stationed in England and subsequently at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. He notes that...

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...was named Outstanding Cadet in Airmanship and holds two master's degrees. Chapters in the book are devoted to his career as an F-4 Phantom fighter pilot during non-combat years and events that influenced his decisions in life. "It's a...

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The show is set in the "macabre, yet fabulous" Coney Island at the turn of the century World-famous composer Lord Lloyd-Webber has launched his latest musical, Love Never Dies - a sequel to the award-winning Phantom of the Opera. Set on...

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...served two tours in the Vietnam War. During his second tour of duty in Vietnam, he flew 25 combat missions before being shot down in a F-4 Phantom. He survived the crash, breaking his right arm, his back and dislocating his left shoulder. He...

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...were crap dogfighters but could get to big ol' bombers very quickly at speeds well over Mach 2. Through the '60s in the age of the F-4 Phantom and the Russian MiG-21 and MiG-23 any fighter worth its salt had to be able to do well over Mach...

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Basically, I had everything I ever wanted out of life. When Lance Sijan was 25 years old, in 1967, he was blown out of his F-4C Phantom over the mountains of Laos. The ejection resulted in a compound fracture to Sijan's left leg,...

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...bringing flowers to place on the ground. The night of his final mission, 40 years ago, Benjamin Franklin Danielson took off in his F-4 Phantom fighter plane from Cam Ranh Bay in South Vietnam headed along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Another...

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...and subsequently was awarded his "wings of gold" as a Naval Aviator in 1956. In 1967 he flew 306 combat missions in Vietnam in his F-4 Phantom, and in the mid-70's he commanded the Silver Eagles in Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines. The...

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