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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Sunday, January 5, 2020
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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.
ReplyDeleteAnother 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.
ReplyDeleteEdit 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.
ReplyDeleteThe 'sound' of freedom for many countries that flew and still fly them. :-)
ReplyDeleteIn 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.
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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.
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