Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

DONALD TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON. CASE CLOSED.

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- Trump

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

Karma may sometimes be late to arrive.
But it never loses an address.

Sunday, January 5, 2020

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

Let's start the New Year on this feature with the Rhino:


Maybe it's because of when I grew up, the F-4 has always come to my mind as "the" fighter.
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6 comments:

Tod Germanica said...

To handle the small British carriers the UK models used a more powerful Rolls Royce Spey turbofan. The adaptation of the rear fuselage to fit the bigger engine raised the per plane cost by 3X compared to the standard US Navy J model limiting the UK fleet (K and M models) to 170 Phantoms.

1/05/2020 10:50 AM
seafury said...

Another good choice. My cousin was a BN on A-6's on his first tour in Vietnam. Came back,went to flight school, got F-4's. Absolutely loved it. One of his flight suits had a patch with "better a sister in a whorehouse than a brother in F-14's"I believe rhino was an air force term he always called the F-4.

1/05/2020 11:28 AM
seafury said...

Edit I always thought the brits had more than that. Maybe it's because every 1970's,80's video of British carriers had a shot of a phantom in it.

1/05/2020 11:32 AM
Old NFO said...

The 'sound' of freedom for many countries that flew and still fly them. :-)

1/05/2020 12:39 PM
LRod said...

In all my years as a controller (controlled tons of F4s, e.g. SSC AFB had a wing of them, NZC had at least a squadron of them) I don't recall hearing of them called "rhinos". I always thought a Rhino was a Super Hornet.

LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired

1/05/2020 2:01 PM
CenterPuke88 said...

Never heard them called “rhinos” either, and Navy Dallas and Carswell had them when I started. The older guys called them “bricks” or “manhole covers” because of their less than stellar glide ratios. Still see the (very) occasional F-4 from the boneyard heading to Pensacola to be turned into a drone, haven’t worked any active duty types since a Luftwaffe flight in the mid-90’s.

1/06/2020 8:11 PM

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