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Old 02-06-2008, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by double ugly View Post
Mine would have been pretty messy long before the landing.
I wish I had a video of my F-4 trailing 100 feet of flame on take off. It was dumping fuel into the engine bay through a 3 inch fuel line that came apart under 3000 lbs. of pressure. Didn't mess the shorts though.
You must've looked like an SR71 on take-off! How'd you get out of that mess?

My brother flew the last of the active duty F4Es, before transitioning to the F15E, and still talks fondly about it.

Steve
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