Originally Posted by
Courtney Mil
The F4 was as good as gold, as LTCT said, and flew a lovely ballistic arc and ended up in denser air, nose down and accellerating. The engines relit without a glitch and
Early on, before the RAF had learnt from its own mistakes we were briefed on the mistakes the cousins had already made.
One I recall was a film of an F4 doing a zoom climb. The rocket duly departed mother earth, the sky became increasingly deeper blue and the contrails brilliant white.
Then the jet started a tail slide down through its contrail, the nose dropped, and it entered an upright spin. Round and down, round and down, the sky became a lighter blue and still the F4 span. Then the canopy went, the GiB ejected followed by the driver. The F4 then ceased rotation and made a smooth wheels up landing on the salt lake.