From the book using military rated power rate of climb,
7,000AUW 4,350f/m
7,500AUW 4,070f/m
8,000AUW 3,700f/m
Training on the T-28 at Pensacola 1967 gossip was the T-28 could beat the F-4 from brakes off to 10,000, apparently it was a bet made with visiting USAF F-4 student crews, never saw it myself but can imagine the long ground roll of the F-4 and accelerating to best climb would put the T-28 ahead, zero wind ground roll for a 8,000lb (our training weight from memory) T-28 was 550 feet.
Our instructors had a broad range of experience, ex F-4, F-8, A-4 etc and combat time, so I'm sure they wouldn't have been making idle bets.
Last edited by megan; 30th Oct 2023 at 01:57.