Will it fly again??

Thanks for the video

Fank you sew masch.

My late father was escorted by F4 fantom 2’s during his B52 bomber runs and missions in Vietnam late 1960’s and early 1970’s . Nothing like the sound of those F4 Phantom thunder makers!

We live in western NC and have a low altitude training route through here and I sound just like you when a pair of F-16's or F-18's pass over head!!! Sends shivers up & down my spine too ;-) Love the glasses!!!

Imagine they get their hands on an F-14....

Would be great to see one restored. Look at the 'boneyard" in Arizona, should still have some for parts there. I saw the last ones fly from Houston and then they got F-16's.

As an Airforce brat , I'm sentimental with F4s. A classic "Hot Rod".

Clearly need to talk with Agent JayZ to get your J79 up and running again.

What is it with you Europeans and the NY Yankees hats?

Great vid. Looks like you had a quality day with the aircraft. 15’s, 16’s & the 35 👌

I grew up in Valdosta GA, home of Moody Air Force Base. At the time, they had Phantoms, and apparently my house was right under one of their regular training routes, because they flew over all the time.

This may have already been said, but there were no ‘British made’ Phantoms. 5057 Phantoms were made in St Louis, and 138 were built by Mitsubishi in Japan.

Great to meet you yesterday. It was a laugh! Good video, too 😊.

Pleasure to meet you mate. All the best & will continue to share your content 👌🏻

It was once the World's best fighters jet especially for a naval Carrier based fighter 💪🏾

Always though the f-4 was one of the coolest looking fighters, I look forward to watching this phantom haunting the skies again

I was a flight line engine mech back in the mid/late 70s and attaching and safety wiring the cannon plugs from the engine to the air frame on the F4 J-79 was a S.O.B!!!!!! Lol

10 million USD and it will fly again😅

I watched your F-4 Phantom vid and I really liked it keep them flying!!!

Ha we used f-4s in better shape then that for target practice.

The F4 in service with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force did have Rolls Royce Spey engines at that time. It was only later F4j(uk) that had HE J79 engines which if I remember performed better than the Speys.

2:59 With my limited knowlegde, those holes you showed are to allow for cool air so the pipe wouldn't melt. The rings you see in the back are the fuel sprayers. 9:52 I don't know either, but on normal Phantoms that was where the radarscreen was, so my guess is that it's radar related or they removed something.

All those little holes in the reheat jet pipe, are to allow cooling air to come in, to protect the jet pipe from the heat. Where the fuel is fed in is further forward where you see those rings. Those are called gutters and that’s where the fuel is ignited.

That will never fly again.

I came to this video from a few automobile barn find vids, this is many orders of magnitude beyond those!

Oke of our car club members ferried F-4s to Southeast Asia from St Louis.

I worked at the plant that built the GE J-79 engines.They stopped producing them in 1979. But we built parts for them for years

For sure ... Never fly again.

Fields full of them in USA. Sad state that such an iconic Aircraft that served in the UK should be all but gone and left in this state.

in america they get them flying

The F-4 is subject to the SALT reduction talks, and unless the airframe still belongs to the Govt, it is illegal to install and run engines in the airframe. If engines are refitted, the engine mountings must be sawn through. We have one on display, and are well aware of the regulations.The F-4D that is flown privately in the USA required an Act of Congress motion to permit it, and it is owned by a museum.

Great Video man! I was there as one of the volunteers that was there and it is great to see you enjoy our collection of Phantoms! Whilst unfortunately they wont be returned to taxiable condition (due to there being no active RR Spey engines to power them and the airframes themselves suffering badly from corrosion due to their outside storage since their retirement) we are hoping to get then restored and hopefully get some of their hydraulic and electrical systems active again!

Are you really serious ? An airworthy F-4K ? Oh dear God, I wish one day I see a team like Starfighters Inc using Phantoms.

Such a shame our CAA won’t let any historic jets fly anymore..😏

Former Empire Test Pilots School aircraft

One of the best fighters there ever was ...................................

Please keep us updated on this one. I’ve been following the F-4 Phantom on The KZbin page for Diesel Thunder, they’re getting ready to test the engines and get her certified for flight!

The F4 was way ahead of it's time, and the brute force of the RR Spey engines! My uncle was radar tech with 228 OCU at RAF Coningsby. Sadly, I can't see the CAA giving permission for a Phantom to fly, they were quick enough to ground the Vulcan after all.

MESSAGE FROM BPAG: Great video and thank you for coming to view our Phantoms at Cotswold Airport. We would just like to clarify that the British Phantom Aviation Groups initial mandate is to restore all three Phantom aircraft to a pristine static condition for display only. There may be potential to restore some systems if the opportunity arises, however that kind of work is a long way off. None of the aircraft will be restored to any form of operational status and will certainly not be performing fast taxi runs due to the age of the airframes and high running costs.

Great video and thank you for coming to view our Phantoms at Cotswold Airport. We would just like to clarify that the British Phantom Aviation Groups initial mandate is to restore all three Phantom aircraft to a pristine static condition for display only. There may be potential to restore some systems if the opportunity arises, however that kind of work is a long way off. None of the aircraft will be restored to any form of operational status and will certainly not be performing fast taxi runs.

As a USAF F4 crew chief this brings back lots of good memories, that F4K a British varient would have had a Rolls Royce engine, my F4C had GE J79 GE 15, hope your group gets it restored and back to life....

This is awesome. I really hope this project sees completion. By the way those little holes in liner of the jet pipe are just for cooling air that maintains a layer of slightly cooler air while all that hot gas is exhausted. I've also been told that the holes play a role in noise reduction but I doubt that was the main priority given how loud these things are! The nozzles for fuel spray are in those rings at the most upstream end of the liner :)

Phantom taking off yesterday ( Sunday ) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaargZeYhtuLgrM

Are you guys kidding us ? Your restoring a British Phantom ! 😮😎 So many British pilots loved the Phantom. I bet they just love seeing g this being done. The Phantom is beloved all over the world. This is great news.

At 3:15 the 'little dinks' in the jet pipe will be for 'cooling air' to stop jet pipe melting / being damaged by the heat. Fuel is introduced near the circular rings the front of what you can see (called the flame holder). Would be excellent to see XT905 up and (ground) running as I used to work on it (and XV490) back on the OCU in the late 80s. Visited XT914 at Wattisham a couple of months ago that also an OCU jet when I was there so I've worked on three of the survivors!

FYI, stop calling the combined LCOSS a HUD, it is not a HUD, it is a Lead Computing gunsight, it did not display any airspeed to navigation data. In fact, there is an instrument called the 'HUD' on the instrument panel. The only exceptions are the RAF Harrier and Jaguar, those aircraft had an early generation HUD that displayed NAV/ATTACK information and weapon aiming cues.

Phantom phorever!

The J-79 can only be used in an F-4J, It cannot be used in the Spey Engined Phantoms

there is some great footage of F-4j UK's inc ZE360(155574) flying out of Raf Wattisham on youtube