Honeoye Falls, N.Y. — The annual F-4 Cockpit Open House honors military veterans who flew, crewed, maintained, or were involved in the F-4 Phantom Fighter aircraft. The event allowed veterans to ...

The F-4 Phantom was capable of hitting Mach 2.23. While it was a capable fighter, the final examples were retired in 1997 due ...

The F-4’s rear cockpit was there for a backseater to handle what was sure to be a heavy information load. For the air-to-air encounters of tomorrow, gunnery was supplanted by radar-guided missiles.

The F-4 Phantom was neither pretty nor elegant. But it did its job when so many other aircraft in history couldn’t.

Like the F-35, the F-4 became the prime aircraft of the air force (which bought three times as many as the navy) and the marines. The Phantom had more than its share of flaws, and detractors to ...

McDonnell Aircraft Corporation’s F-4 Phantom was quickly becoming the do-all fighter by the mid 1960s, able to lug thousands of pounds of bombs on one mission and then strictly air-to-air ...

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.