Working With Heatblur and First Look at the F-4E! | DCS World

I know a lot of you would like to see the F-4E or rewatch it, so skip forward to 04:59 if you'd like.
It's been quite a journey with the real F-4D, that has also helped develop the F-4E. It's certainly has been surreal to go from just a DCS enthusiast to Phantom Phixer and content creator. It's been awesome working with ‪@HeatblurSimulations‬ and ‪@grinnellidesigns‬ on such iconic aircraft, and I'm happy to be able to share a part of that with you all!
Music used is "Beyond the Horizon", by Mirage
Licensed from Audio Machine
Chapters
00:00 Working with Heatblur
04:59 F-4E First Look

[@jefflee1716]

I'm retired from the Air Force. My job was as a weapons loader. My first plane was the F4E/G. Best plane ever. I would help you fix any F4 you needed, if I could.

[@trespire]

Spook lives ! IAF Kurnass structural technician B-check & A-check. P.S. Hope you didn't get too chewed up spending all that time under the belly of the beast !

[@airforce5400]

2W1/462 💪

[@PaddyPatrone]

I might be biased, but I freaking love the german liveries. Only saw a Luftwaffe F4 flying once in 2001. They had a F4 with special bavarian livery flying a full airshow display. Was pretty epic. Unfortunately I had no camera at that time.

[@TheRealHeti]

40 years Jagdgeschwader 74 „Mölders“.

[@Lightning_Mike]

The brown-ish one looks absolutely amazing!

[@HaVoC117X]

Doesn't some of the liveries belong to the F4F ICE version?

[@jorgemachado7784]

Awesome video, man. I have been "phollowing" the F-4 since I was 11. I'm almost 50 now. Thanks for sharing these great videos and your enthusiasm for the old girl with the rest of us 07.

[@bill8791]

Noice. First person outside HB to show the Phantom?!

[@DieselThunderAviation]

Thank you! And yes, seems I was the first. Very grateful to Heatblur for that opportunity!

[@bobaround5338]

@@DieselThunderAviation Couldn't have happened to a better ambassador.

[@elrobo3568]

As a crew chief that crewed F-4C's, A-7's and F-16's (I also worked on the lead sled and even F-86's 89's and crewed some AT33's. I have really appreciated your putting this on so we can see it. I later became a pilot and I haven't found a good simulator and I am awaiting your new simulator. I would really would like for the real tail numbers to be put on the sim aircraft I'm sure there are a lot of other old chiefs that will recognize them. Thanks!

[@harrisonturner1716]

From what I’ve seen in the released information from heatblur a large portion of modifiable information placarded around the aircraft can be edited. Things such as tail numbers, and aircrew name decals

[@gomes389]

Thank you for sharing this and for collaborating in the production of these modules for DCS.

[@jamescoker822]

Superb!! Looking forward to that F100 as well.

[@aztec0112]

Thank you for showcasing the detail and THE LIVERIES! Nicely done!

[@DieselThunderAviation]

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it! That was most, but not all the liveries that were available when I filmed that. More have been added since!

[@fearless_ambassador_ambo]

The F-4E and F-100 are both planes my retired USAF LCOL grandfather flew over Vietnam and my father was a Phantom Phixer for the VF-102 Diamondbacks in their F-4J era. I have a lot of love for both of those planes, the Phantom especially. Thank you for your contributions and work keeping these rarer and rarer legends alive - and Jesus, I got a little misty-eyed there at the end.

[@capital101]

I worked as a crew chief on the actual aircraft they featured here 06:07, 68-517 Ramstein Germany 1982. I have an 11x 14 photograph i took while it was hangar queen. I wish there was some way I could post the photo to share it

[@DieselThunderAviation]

Wow, that is awesome, thank you for your service! Your jet flies again!

[@T-Cup314]

Super proud of you and the team mate. Well done !. Definitely excited

[@rwhunt99]

Thanks for all your efforts and proud of you working to keep this bird alive, looking forward to the first flight of it!

[@griffincheng]

Better promo than sending to other KZbinrs. Great job well done. Keep it up!

[@sp00f64]

Awesome! I am rooting for you get the F4E up and flying! Look forward to seeing you in more videos!

[@pringphotomartin]

Congrats Diesel on a well put together videi - Reaper ;)

[@T.K.11]

Thanks! Amazing! Great work!

[@British_Dragon-Simulations]

I need to get off my phone and back to my TV/ monitor to see this! The details in the cockpit look photorealistic on my twelve year old mobile phone.

[@DieselThunderAviation]

If you think it looks great on a phone, definitely worth seeing on a larger screen! That was filmed at 4K.

[@British_Dragon-Simulations]

@@DieselThunderAviation Wow! These are the best cockpit textures I've ever seen! It looks amazing in 4K! Thankyou!

[@ajs5mz2]

Very nice - thanks for sharing!

[@trespire]

Looks amazing, and hyper realistic scruffy with chipped paint like thay were in service. Really appreciate the 69th Hammers (tail 175) : - I'm 95% sure the tail boom under the vertical stabilizer was not bright metal, it was painted, mostly in green if I recall, same green as the drogue spring door. I spent quite a lot of time in that area tightening or replacing loose Jo-bolts on the "hot" inboard half of the horizontal stabalizers - The rest looks correct. Well done. Long live Spook.

[@dishdoggiegaming7254]

Thank You. Your help on this will give my Preordered F-4 more American History to my ownership of a legend.

[@gman9945]

Awesome!

[@SkyDawg91]

Oh snap, the Phantom has taken a peak outside of the hangar. Nice dude! Need a Blue Angels livery in there :)

[@dcsheinlein]

the hype is real

[@TazziedoesWT]

That was a livery i requested quite a bit, and you showed it off as the first one! RAAF livery will get a lot of use by me when I come back to DCS.

[@pickandstrum]

Worked on the f4 C D and E during my air force career best experience was crewing the D at redflag at nellis heck of an experience for a 20 something kid

[@Kira.ttv_4]

what a pretty aircraft

[@svojet]

Always loved the looks and design of the F4 ever since I was a kid. My favorite fighter jet. I've not flown my DCS in a bit, but I will be buying the F4 and flying on there. Awesome that you have the real deal and to be involved in the DCS version too. There is a real one sitting as display in a park by my house. It's been there for many years. I've always said that someday I'd like to have one sitting in my yard as yard art. haha

[@jaredneaves7007]

I just bought it on pre-order as my first module... can't wait to see the final results!

[@Graham183]

Certainly going to be watching all your F4 videos from the beginning when we get our hands on the DCS one.....Many thanks in advance 👍✌

[@SliderRS]

WOW!!! 👍😎👍and thx!!!

[@ComdrStew]

Just imagine people will be building sim pits based off your F-4E. I sat in the cockpit they have at the USAF Museum in Dayton, OH, even have a short video of it on my channel. Did not have time to get the back seat though, too many people were waiting to get in it.

[@DieselThunderAviation]

Cool! I had a similar experience, but with the Tomcat cockpit they have on the USS Midway museum ship. I sat in the back seat and looking around it, was impressed with how familiar it felt to the DCS Tomcat! For this simpit stuff, I have a thread over on the ED forums with all sort or measurements. Finding dimensional drawings of these aircraft is near impossible.

[@Th1235]

WTF...?! 5:46 PS: Can't wait for the release. Bought it shortly after it became pre-purchasable.

[@blakemuch5607]

wooohooo so cool !!!

[@LuftManu]

Great!!!!

[@joachimbrand2314]

One more week! ❤

[@PaddyPatrone]

Niiiiice!

[@Michaelkaraz]

Awesome thanks

[@athuddriver]

Well done!!!

[@ziepex7009]

Thankyou, you legend!

[@kelvingrullon4099]

He goes, " my son" ... that's your brother dude

[@DieselThunderAviation]

Thanks for thinking I look young! I’m over twice his age 😄

[@Andrew-13579]

Great video! I’m glad you are helping. Are you and that Phantom in the DFW area? Heatblur has said before they would eventually be making at least one other version of the Phantom. Have you heard any reaffirmations of that plan recently? Maybe while I checkout and enjoy the F-4E for the next few years, they’ll have an F-4J and maybe F-4D in works, too?? I know it will be few years but it would be nice to keep hearing every now and then that one or two other versions are in the pipeline. 🙂

[@thunderace4588]

Thank you.

[@DieselThunderAviation]

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!

[@buzmil]

Worked with -749 ‘05-07 at Ellington, between air shows and donor rides we got to launch and catch her quite a bit. Hope ya get her flying again!!

[@DieselThunderAviation]

That is awesome! And that is the goal, the strut and the electrical problem are the last two major hurdles!

[@buzmil]

@@DieselThunderAviation thats good. Last I had heard, Will had told me the seat charges (rockets?) had some supply issues. Keep up the great work!

[@Universal_exports87]

Something tells me the Phantom is going to come to me as the TOMCAT did in DCS.

[@HaVoC117X]

There were a lot of German liveries, some of them belong to the F4F ICE, while the basic F4F is a stripped down F4E......the ICE has the F18 radar, F15 center line Fueltank and other gadgets like aim 120.................Did they plan to implement the German ICE version?

[@chikokishi7030]

Epic. I feel priveledged to see, hear, and be part of this corner of the internet. Your channel is great and I'm looking forward to the phantom in dcs.

[@redferne01]

8 days. Hell, it's about time!

[@callsignnictmere465]

I got to rig the chutes for the Phantom. It had an odd shape hard container, just behined the pilots head rest. I am looking forward to the F4 opening day on the 21st.

[@swordlaches]

Let's goooo!

[@naoakiooishi6823]

AlphaWhiskeySierraOscarMikeEcho!

[@freeman9134]

Nice Edit, I know and respect the pain of only forward replay.

[@franciscoborges9591]

amazing tankyou❤

[@simtaylor61]

Beautiful video and the music was DROP DEAD AWESOME! Song title and artist?

[@DieselThunderAviation]

Thank you! That was "Beyond the Horizon", by Mirage. It's available on Audio Machine, haven't looked to see if that is available on iTunes or anything though.

[@Ripper669]

Go Grinnelli

[@TheGreatBoppino]

I just discovered your channel yesterday and love it, I’ve been a huge fan of the F4 since I was a kid. I have a question about the cooling system. Is the oil cooled by the fuel or does it have an air heat exchanger?

[@NotBonk1]

It has both an Air-Oil and two Fuel-Oil Heat exchangers onboard.

[@MoreFunization]

Thank you for your work. Is it possible to see official ingame HAF F-4E livery? I think that it's beautiful in comparison with standard European schemes.

[@DieselThunderAviation]

For sure, there are several HAF liveries! I had filmed this in February, and even then, I couldn't show all of the available liveries but got most of them. More have been added since!

[@utley]

You know, I kinda figured it would be this specific phantom we would be seeing soon in DCS. Theres like how many still flyable phantoms here in the states? 2?

[@DieselThunderAviation]

Ours is the only one as far as we know. There is/was a project on the west coast to restore one (an A model I think), that's around 75% complete. Unsure of her future as I think the owner passed away. There may be some at the Boneyard that could theoretically fly again, though not sure on that either.

[@serinusgranainobolborhynch868]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@crazyhorse18]

Top👍

[@mannyram9717]

Any word at all about the timeline for when the carrier version might be released?

[@DieselThunderAviation]

I'm not sure on that. Of the announced modules they are working one (Eurofighter, A-6 Intruder, naval F-4), fairly sure they've said the Eurofighter is next for sure. Unknown if the naval Phantom will come before or after the A-6. Don't even know if they've said which variant for the Navy version (B, J, N, or S).

[@jeevungill7096]

Any chance you'll be able to do a cold start tutorial before release?

[@DieselThunderAviation]

Quite possibly. I'll have to check and see if Heatblur is already doing that or if one of the other creators will be.

[@jeevungill7096]

@@DieselThunderAviation Thanks

[@flanker909]

Brother nice video but I was grimacing listening to you, are you okay? please take good care of yourself sir.

[@Skipper0303]

Phucking Hell it's Phantastic!

[@Crazy-Bear-Gamer-Channel]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@braacz]

two weeks!

[@Phantom24425]

3 WEEKS AGO?????????

[@DieselThunderAviation]

I've been working on a few things! 🙂

[@NikoMoraKamu]

no Spanish Phantom? :(

[@DieselThunderAviation]

I asked about the liveries, and official liveries are representative of the nations that flew the E model. If I have the history correct, Spain only flew the C model (both the F-4C and RF-4C).

[@NikoMoraKamu]

@@DieselThunderAviation to be honest mu knowledge is not that deep xD i know we had those because there is one in a roundabout placed as sculpture

[@AdmiralQuality]

Um, that's the wrong model Phantom.

[@DieselThunderAviation]

I agree, our real-life D model and the simulated E model. There are a few big differences like the slats, nose, internal gun, DSCG vs. DVST display, etc. Aside from that, they are near identical from the cockpits back, and a lot of the data from the manuals applies to both.

[@AdmiralQuality]

@@DieselThunderAviation Yeah, I was kind of disappointed to hear our variant wouldn't have blown flaps, but the slats look so much meaner and cooler so I've warmed up to it.

[@coldclaws2479]

congrats on the content creator early access. how unfortunate that certain other content creators didnt get it i guess they arent relevant anymore like enigma

[@startrekmike]

What "certain other content creators" are you referring to?

[@SkyDawg91]

I mean... how many other "content creators" have a literal F-4E Phantom and collaborated directly with Heatbllur? LOL

[@Fox3-Luck]

Awesome!

[@DieselThunderAviation]

Thank you!