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Fighter Pilot Podcast

FPP052 - F-4 Phantom II (part 1)

Fighter Pilot Podcast

Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot

History, Aviation, Leisure, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Government, Technology

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

A discussion on the venerable McDonnell fighter-bomber with a pilot and RIO who flew it for more than 5,000 hours combined. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

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0:00.0

Thanks to our sponsor National University.

0:02.3

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0:06.8

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0:09.6

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0:17.2

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0:20.1

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0:27.0

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0:31.0

If you've been waiting on the one military aviation podcast that covers it all, well you found it, because on this episode of the fighter pilot podcast, two retired naval aviators with over 60 years of combined service and thousands of flight hours between them,

0:46.7

join us to discuss the legendary F4 Phantom II.

0:50.3

What the design resulted in was not only a fighter that could do the air to air mission, but they could also carry bombs.

0:56.7

Aerial combat in Vietnam.

0:58.4

We did barrel rule, got behind the other Meg and shot him off rookie in Ken's tail and that was our second kill of the day.

1:06.0

Prisoners of war?

1:07.0

And so I reached down my good hand, ejected us from the airplane.

1:11.0

The next thing I knew, I'm hanging and shoot coming down. Land in a rice

1:15.6

paddy they came along dragging me up and stripped me down of all my gear. They

1:20.3

took me down to the main road, threw me in the back of the truck, and took me in Hanoy.

1:24.0

And best of all, reconciliation among former adversaries.

1:28.0

Out of the six pilots, two of them were still alive,

1:31.0

and I got to meet one of them.

1:32.0

And we sat down at the table and 43, Two of them were still alive and I got to meet one of them.

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