What's wrong with T-shirt cannons?

To be honest there were so many great aircraft (I mainly know the British stuff and some of the American ones) like the VC10, Victor K2, Buccaneer, Jet Provost, Canberra, Lightning (my dad used to fly them), Nimrod, Vulcan (my granddad used to fly them), Sea Vixen, Hawker Hunter, Valiant, etc...

It was a really great aircraft, deserves it's own thread and story in itself.

True, but nothing really shows them how much you care quite like a good old fashioned carpet bombing from a group of B-52s. When you care enough to send the very best.....

At least someone else picked up on the irony...

Here is one of my all-time favourite avoation photos:

Best F-4 memory is me and my cousin in our teenage year, rowing a boat with two girls along, on a series of lakes in the suburbs north of Copenhagen. Then two F-4s fly over us, one of them trailing flames, and right there it drops three underwing fuel tanks. Read later in the paper they fell in the only lake with no…

I miss the Buccaneers just as much as the Phantoms. Both very great aircraft but the Buccy had a beautiful grace to her.

I used to carpool home from Jr High with a kid whose dad was a Vietnam F4 pilot, then downgraded to a honda civic. It was *awesome*. He drove with an intensity that I had never seen. He did seem to feel that the civic was just a touch down on power. He toggled the AC almost continuously — as if pushing the…

Heh, might be the best plane/song combo ever.

"Ja, das people of Malta ver not so happy with my ... how you say ... "aerobatic maneuvers" 50 years ago!" thought Generalleutenant Rall as he lit the afterburners ...

Is it just me or at 0:32-34 in the first vid, does the whole fucking airframe generate one of those lift vortex thingies you see on the canards of a flanker or the shouldery bit of a super hornet? And again in the 2nd video, just before the green artifact at 6:34.

The F-4 had a hell of a run, and the fact that a plane designed in the 50s remains even vaguely relevant in the 2010s is amazing. It is the Olds 442 of the skies. Thanks for sharing!

Good stuff, Tyler... Try this on for a lead image....

soundtrack:

They're obviously rechambered in 30mm T-shirt cannon rounds.

When they retired the Phantom a small part of me died inside.

(1st video) The knife edge pass over the top of the crowd with the gear down about halfway through was awesome. Then I saw the last pass starting at 3:30. That was amazing. Love F-4's

This would be my ultimate amphib Taxi:

I wonder how demilitarized these are.