Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"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?” -- The TOFF *

"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

"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

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

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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