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Trouble free FCF, the jet is Code 1 after two flights today. We couldv'e turned again if we needed to.


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Great pictures! Can't wait to see it at TOM this year!

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Congrats for getting the F4 flying again. How about buzzing over League City tomorrow so I can see/hear her.
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Just curious, what's the GPH on an F-4?

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me109me109 wrote:
Just curious, what's the GPH on an F-4?


I don't even want to know! :shock:

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Jets don't compute fuel burn in gallons, it's in pounds.
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me109me109 wrote:
Just curious, what's the GPH on an F-4?


you can't afford it! :D :D :D :shock: :D :D
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Roughly 20 lbs per mile + reserve

Look at picture one a little closer, she's in burner, the fuel burn at that point figured in minutes ! :lol:

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Congrats on a job well done Rick and crew!

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Phantastic! Looking forward to see her at Thunder. The last time I saw a Phantom fly was sometime in the mid 90s, when a couple of Marine RF-4s (I think) visited our airshow.

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me109me109 wrote:
Just curious, what's the GPH on an F-4?


As I remember it was something over 100,000 lb/hr in burner... a clean jet like this one would have a short sortie.... my shortest sortie in the F-4 was a .4... clean jet A/A mission.. straight to the area and coast home.... can't remember what the Mil FF was at corner... but we could get it down to 6000 lb/hr at cruise on the way home...

In airplanes like that you are always in a hurry... gotta use your fuel wisely... think well ahead of the jet.

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I remember watching a video of a pair of RAF phantoms scrambled to intercept a Tu-95 bear, they were in full afterburner and after they rotated (nose wheel off the runway) the 2 Phantoms remained in a nose up attitude but still on the mains had their burners blasting down onto the surface of the runway for 3 or 4 seconds . I can't remember if the runway was concrete or bitumen but the Phantom must be hell on runway surfaces in full burner !

Anyway , congrats , must have been a great day for the team !

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Rick, I have a silly question. How hard is it to repack that chute used during landing? Is it used during each landing? Or is it only used for shorter runways? It is something I have always wondered.

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AWESOME :!: :!: :!: :!: :!:

Congratulations on getting the Rhino back in the air where she belongs! :D

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Chris, repacking the chute the AF way with the bag is a real pain. We carry a bagged chute on cross countrys in case the one in the tail blows out or gets wet.

We pack the installed chute the Navy/Marine way without the bag. It's really not to bad to repack directly into the jet. NO BROOM HANDLE REQUIRED !

The guys usually won't use the chute on a long runway, but yesterday we were checking all sysytems, so Harry popped the chute on both flights.

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