Aircraft Familiarization The F4D-1 Skyray Operating Procedures

[@HEDGE1011]

Thanks for the interesting film. What a unique aircraft. I found the tail bumper to be an interesting solution to the high pitch issue at touchdown.

[@ronaldtartaglia4459]

HEDGE1011 amazing that they did that. I don’t think this f-4 was in service long.

[@allgood6760]

Thanks for this 👍✈️

[@ronaldtartaglia4459]

16:35, Adverse Yaw. It seems that until computerized control,(f-16), this plagued all jet fighters. Even the mighty f-4. Imagine having to reverse how you use the control in a second to get the plane to maintain direction at the worst times..... interesting and daunting to say the least.

[@rudyyarbrough5122]

I flew the F-4 and never once experienced such a problem nor did I know of anyone who did.

[@guaporeturns9472]

@@rudyyarbrough5122😂 yeah ok 👌🏻 🤥

[@ronaldtartaglia4459]

How come there were 3 f-4’s Corsair Sky ray Phantom. Bizarre

[@dbwindhorst1]

You left out the Boeing F4B, the Curtis F4C, the Grumman F4F Wildcat, and the (first) photo-reconnaisance version of the P-38 Lightning, It's due to the pre-unified designation system used until 1962: Boeing's naval fighter suffix was B, Curtiss was C, Douglas was D, Grumman was F, McDonnell was H, Chance-Vought was U, and in the P-for-Pursuit era, Army Air Force photo-recon a/c were all prefixed F's.

[@daviddelang9008]

There were MORE than 3 F4s. It's just the pre-1963 USN nomenclature. The first letter indicated the mission of the aircraft, the second letter indicated the manufacturer of the aircraft (which, may not have been the designer...) and the number in between indicated the sequential number of that type of aircraft built for the Navy by that manufacturer. The Skyray was the the F4D. That meant, fighter; fourth model; by Douglas. The Phantom was originally the the F4H, fighter; fourth model; by McDonnell. It was preceded by the FH Phantom: fighter; first model(no number); by McDonnell, the F2H Banshee: fighter; second model; by McDonnell and the F3H Demon: fighter; third model; by McDonnell. There was also the F4F Wildcat: Fighter; fourth model; by Grumman, the F4B: fighter; fourth model; by Boeing. The Corsair was the F4U: fighter, fourth model; by Vought. The Phantom got a new designation after the tri-service designation plan by SecDef MacNamara. It became the F-4 (note the dash) and a letter that denoted the specific model of the aircraft which the old Navy designation used an appended number to show, the F4H-1 became the F-4B. The Skyray became the F-6 because the Phantom was front line in '63 and got to keep the same number while the Skyray was on the way out so it had to adopt a different number.