vf31rhill

You sure are. There is noting in the world like the sound of a "Beast" taking off in full after burner. I wish I could hear it one more time, this time with a recorder. I am proud to have been involved with it operationally speaking. I will try to make a photo of the desk model and email it to you.
Robert

Hi Robert,
Dad has been gone for a few years now. He left McDonnell Douglas in the summer of 1965 to take a civil service job at Chanute AFB, IL. We had been stationed there until we left in '57 for McCord AFB, WA. He was a jet engine instructor at Chanute until his retirement in '73. We were always proud to have been involved with the F4. It was such an amazing machine-the genesis aircraft for todays' modern fighters. But, I'm preaching to the choir, aren't I. :-)
Rick

Thank you Robert. You are definitely a better instructor than me.
My Father was a final inspector for McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis in the mid sixties. Maybe you were involved with some off his line, eh?
Rick