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Originally Posted by ollie Hi Blue,
Nope, the only jet we use(d) was the Falcon Jet for long range search and rescue spotting. I will say that I saw two of them up very close once. A very interesting experience. We were off the coast of New Jersey near McGuire AFB harassing Russian ships who just had a little to many antennas up for innocent fishing boats. We were amongst 20 or 30 of them.
Well the old man decided to fun with the Russkies a bit and called McGuire. Within minutes two phantoms came roaring out to assist us in the harassing effort. One flew toward us at bridge level. Man what a roar that engine produced.
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Those F4's are great. Bill flew the F-4E at Soesterberg AFB (The Netherlands) and the F-4C in the Ore Guard.