Originally Posted by
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Well, if you had a real fighter with 2 engines properly located one above the other, the problem simply wouldn’t occur! 😉
Ahh, English Electric ; now them were the days. (Hawker , Gloster, Blackburn , etc etc ; long gone now . Brings tears to the eyes...) .
But one has to admit the Lightning also had , like the F4 , a certain " je ne sais quoi ", aka "character " . However , being slightly biased , my vote has to go with Dominator-
Most of us believe that it was a true honour to have flown such a great aircraft
Remember that the F4 Phantom was one of the best Multi Role jets ever built. Only to be bettered by the F15E and some of the more recent 5th generation aircraft.
I would probably add the F16 to that list . If we spotted them at low level over the North German plains , the usual call was --"F 16's ? Run , lads ! "