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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II: Production and Operational Data

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Over five thousand F-4's were built by McDonnell in St. Louis. Most of the birds are no longer in use, but some are still flying and will be flying on the 50th anniversary of the plane. It began as an all-weather fleet defense interceptor for the US Navy, but will be remembered most as the mainstay of the Air Force operations in Vietnam.

This book is the exhaustively researched records of what happened to each of the planes that were built. It includes the McDonnell build information and more on the planes lives. Most of the data is in tabular form, you can't put too much about each of the 5,000 planes in only 360 pages.

And of the 360 pages, about sixty of them are beautiful four color photographs showing more imaginative paint jobs than you can imagine.

This book is going to remain the definitive report on the construction and operational use of the F-4.

If you are looking for the background of almost any F-4 Phantom in its many different configurations here is the source. This is a compilation of several McDonnell Douglas service records. Information such as 'first flight' to when it was stuck from service can be found here. This is not a history, but a great reference source. It would have been great if the units an individual ac had served in could be compiled ...

I think it is not a real book, is a record of Phantom. Why? As you know, record is dry, but it can supply complete information about per Phantom, for example their final fate. I can tell you it can do that. And it includes all US Phantom air to air combat record and lost. But if you want to look for many pictures or drawings, it is not a good choice. And it cannot supply detail of Phantom. But some representational pattern is including in it. If it can combine with another Phantom book, "Phantom, spirit in sky", the new book will be a perfect book. I give three star because I don't know how many people can accept its record style.