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  • in reply to: Photos from Ark Royal (F4, Sea Vixen etc) #2101092
    ARXW
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    Massive site!

    This is the most photos I’ve seen of F-4Ks in a single site so far on board the Ark.

    The K is definitely my favourite version.

    Please post them all!

    That was some force! A RAF Lightning pilot who flew Ks from the Ark on exchange said ‘that you couldn’t compare that type of flying to anything else’ or something along those lines. Coming from the cream of the RAF at the time, it just goes to show the calibre of flying those RN units produced.

    Even USN exchange officers admitted as much, people like Mig killer and Topgun graduate Jerry Beaulier and others.

    They Spey F-4 had better acceleration and of course T/W ratio from those Speys (18.6 tons total against IIRC 14.2t of the J!!)..

    in reply to: Lightning #2098919
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    RE: Lightning

    Actually the very good Flt Lt Mike Hale of 11Sqn(the pilot who ‘shot down’ the entire right column of aircraft you see in my second attachment, Mirage F1, F-15 and Sea Harrier) had carried out in the early 1980’s I believe a STERN conversion intercept on a Concorde doing at least M1.8 (or M2.0) and probably more!!! That comin round the back of the Concorde that’s flying at twice the speed of sound and simulating a missile launch…rather impressive.

    in reply to: Lightning #2099058
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    RE: Lightning

    The gun camera pics are from an old Lightning book by Bryan Philpott…

    in reply to: Lightning #2099122
    ARXW
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    RE: Lightning

    enjoy again…
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