Well ahead of it's time in the mid 1950s. It was a long long time before anything could even look at it.
It still looks like it's doing a million miles an hour sitting in a revetment.
What was with the F-106 takeoff at 8:33?
Anyways, the Phantom is a great plane. There's a novel dedicated to it called "Warbirds" by Richard Herman, worth picking up.
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