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The first flight after the 50-hour qualification test, required for a new engine that is the sole source of thrust for a flying testbed, was on 8 December 1955, powering the second pre-production Douglas F4D Skyray, with the J79 in place of its original Westinghouse J40 engine as part of the General Electric development and qualification program.
USMC F-4 pilots claimed three enemy MiGs at the cost of one aircraft in air-combat. USAF F-4 Phantom crews scored 107 + 1 ⁄ 2 MiG kills (including 33 + 1 ⁄ 2 MiG-17s, eight MiG-19s and 66 MiG-21s) at a cost of 33 Phantoms in air-combat. [91] F-4 pilots were credited with a total of 150 + 1 ⁄ 2 MiG kills at a cost of 42 Phantoms in air-combat.
Two-seat all-weather carrier-based fighter for the US Navy, J79-GE-2 and -2A engines with 16,100 lbf (71.6 kN) of afterburner thrust each. Named Phantom II in 1959 and redesignated F-4A in 1962; 45 built. [1] TF-4A A small number of F-4As converted into two-seat training aircraft. F4H-1 (F-4B)
This proved very successful, allowing the Kurnass 2000 to exceed Mach 1 without the afterburners, and endowing a combat thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.04 (17 per cent better than the F-4E). This improved the sustained turn rate by 15 per cent, the climb rate by 36 per cent, medium-level acceleration by 27 per cent and low-level speed with 18 bombs ...
Overall, South Korea was one of the main customers of the F-4, with 216 delivered, including 60 "D" models, 55 "E" models and 18 RF-4Cs in service in 2000. [61] [63] The F-4 was the ROKAF's primary fighter until the KF-16 began to be introduced in 1994. [64] The 20 F-4D units at Daegu base were retired as of June 16, 2010, as the company took ...
The British versions of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II (designated Phantom FG.Mk.1 and FGR.Mk.2) replaced the 16,000 lb wet thrust J79 turbojets with a pair of 20,515 lb wet thrust Spey 201 turbofans. These provided extra thrust for operation from smaller British aircraft carriers, and provided additional bleed air for the boundary layer ...
Two vertical ramps were used in the F-4 Phantom intake, the first with a fixed wedge angle of 10 degrees and the second with a variable additional deflection above Mach 1.2. [14] Horizontal ramps were used in the Concorde intakes.
Splitter plate on the fuselage side of an F-4 Phantom II Splitter plate forming a lip on the underside of a Eurofighter Typhoon. A splitter plate is a component in some jet aircraft, used to control the airflow into the engine.