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India Four Two
Thanks Ken, that was most informative.
75 F-4s a month. I had no idea! Three years ago, I was lucky enough to be at Oshkosh and saw the last two airworthy QF-4s. Wonderful sight. The noise was even better.
You want wonderful noise, we had a couple of civilian operated F100s at Farnborough in the mid '90s.
I was the only controller who was aware of the loud (and I do mean
LOUD) bang when the 'burner lit so it wasn't unknown for the tower controller to press the crash button when this occured.