Two words, "measles rock".
F-4's were long gone by the time I got to the southern radar site (Though got to see a Flicker knife over measles rock and between the Radome and the FITS tower, wing tip no more than 15 ft above the deck. Also saw some good F-4 measles at the better radar site down south 10 years before). However, I have seen a video taken on measles rock from the late 1980's of a F-4 coming over the rock, everything down, very slow and very low. So low in fact that it was only full burner and a massive cloud of peat that resulted, that stopped the Phantom sinking into the deck. Rumour has it that the Nav nearly banged out, as he thought the aircraft was a goner, and that he also decked the pilot when they got back on the ground at MPA. One other thing I remember on the video was a voice on it as the phantom sank out of view behind the rock's before the increase in jet noise and peat blast.....
....."F*** he's low!!!!!"
One other thing, boy's on 751 SU, called the F-4 Jock 'Mad Dog', for some unknown reason.
