On May 27, 1958, the skies over St. Louis witnessed a historic moment as the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II made its maiden ...

Looking more like a killer than a speedster, the large twin-engine jet built to sweep skies clear of enemy MiGs and deliver large payloads of bombs would ...

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a legendary aircraft — an icon of the Vietnam War and the archetype of the third-generation jet fighter designs that entered service in the 1960s.

The F-4 Phantom II began flying fleet ... twin-engine tactical jet fighter bomber was built by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (later the McDonnell-Douglas Corporation). It could fly in any ...

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a legendary aircraft — an icon of the Vietnam War and the archetype of the third-generation jet fighter designs that entered service in the 1960s.

If nicknames are destiny, then the F-4 Phantom II fighter was cursed at ... F3H Demon carrier-based fighter from McDonnell Aircraft Corp. (later McDonnell Douglas, which eventually merged with ...

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is one of the earliest such pieces of technology, having had its first flight in 1958. The F-4 was designed as a two-seat, twin-engine interceptor and fighter ...

followed by water cannon salute and then shut down of the USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Interestingly, it also shows (actually, it lets you hear) the double “sonic boom” caused by two ...

But the F-4EJ Kai? That was like the full Raichu, the American McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II's ultimate evolution. An airframe so "juiced" up to the gills with upgraded hardware that it wouldn ...

McDonnell Aircraft Corporation's F-4 Phantom was quickly becoming ... Navy did not bite at the swing-wing Phantom idea, McDonnell, which became McDonnell Douglas in 1967, kept revamping the ...

The McDonnell Douglas story starts with its last name ... Then, just in time for the Vietnam War, McDonnell came up with the F-4 Phantom II — the plane that transformed aerial combat.