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In May 1998, when the aircraft was celebrating 40 years in the air, the Phantom was still flying in defence of of eight nations-Egypt, Germany, Isreal, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Turkey. Egypt, Germany, Isreal, Japan, South Korea, and Turkey have under taken a plan to upgrade their F-4s and keep them flying until 2015, nearly 60 years after the phantom's first flight on May 27 1958
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Topic: Re: worst
I think you are wrong the f-4 was a real good aircraft it is still being used today by japan and isreal.
The F-4E is a good aircraft heres a story of an old display plain that sat on a tarmac at an Air National Guard Base.The plain was going to be shipped to be put on display in a museum the plain sat for a longtime without being flown the mantaince crews came out and inspected it and it passed alll preflight inspections but it still couldnt be flown becuase the e-seat was demilitarized.The plain sat for 10yrs. |
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The Fairey Battle was classified as a Light Bomber by the RAf, if I'm not wrong. Nevertheless, it was a damned poor design... I think that one that get close to it is the Boulton Paul Defiant, a strange design of a fighter with a rotating turret where all the weapons were te be fixed... but no weapons on the nose. Quickly destroyed by the Me-109.
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I think the He-162 Volksjaeger was the worst of them all. A single jet fighter designed to be produced cheap and in large quantity at the end of WW2. They even started to train Hitler youth as pilots for the Volksjaeger. Most of the Volksjaeger losses were from flying accidents, due to problems as engine flame-outs and structural failures.
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