RickH wrote:
I didn't mention Great Britain, Germany, or the Israelis, simply because I think that some of the F-4s that those countries had may have been bought outright, new , from McDonnell.
I believe we did buy outright, and ours were completely different to everyone else's in being redesigned to be powered by the RR Spey....
But, I believe the conditions of sale etc, that you describe still applied, as there have been 'issues' with some of the UK F-4's that have gone to museums and IIRC it was the major stumbling block to Mark Hanna's attempts to get the airworthy F-4 OFMC bought from the RAF (one that Mark had actually flown in RAF service) civil certified.
There were many at the time that were salivating at the prospect of seeing Mark Hanna display flying the F-4 in his own inimitable style.
His Hunter displays were awesome, Mark having been on the last RAF tactical weapons conversion course that used the Hunter prior to the type's retirement.
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