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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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Jack Cook
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Nice...

This is actually an F-4D. The unit is the 497th TFS, 8th TFW. The 497th were known as the 'Night Owls'
and flew night attack missions, hence the black undersides of this jet.


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I thought Ds had the smooth radome??

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Only the first three blocks of F-4Ds (about 80 airframes) lacked the IR chin pod present on earlier variants. Starting with block 27 machines the chin pod was once again installed, although it housed a radar warning antenna instead of an IR tracking system. In comparing the pods on the F-4C and D, the pod on the F-4D has an extra bulge on the bottom toward the rear.


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Nice...Paveway I. That's bringing it old school.

Big question is...how the hell are they guiding it?! I don't see any pod on board, nor a "Zot" sticking out from the back cockpit. Must be a ground party doing the lasing.
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The 8th had buddy ships using the AVQ-23 Pave Tack or Pave Spike pod.

One would carry it and a GBU-10B either on outboard or inboard and the other F-4Ds or F-4Es in flight would be wall to wall or 2 plyons full of GBUs 10s.

The A-6 Inruder used the GBU-10s with AVQ 23 pod on last day of the Vietnam war 28th Jan 1973 to destroy some nice North Vietnamese targets.
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Neat pic Jack! I have a dumb Q. What type antenna is that along the spine? Thanks.
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That antenna is called a towel rack and it's for LORAN.

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Buddy-guiding is weak.

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[quote="RickH"]That antenna is called a towel rack and it's for LORAN.[/quote]

Thanks Rick.
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