From Richard Pike, best-selling author of Hunter Boys and The
Lightning Boys volumes, comes the newest addition to Grub Streets
popular Boys series; Phantom Boys. Originally developed for the US
Navy, this twin-engined supersonic long-range fighter-bomber first
flew in the spring of 1958. It then entered service for the US Navy
in 1961, and in 1969 with the Fleet Air Arm and RAF in the UK.
Regarded as one of the most versatile fighters ever built, the
Phantom F-4 was the US Navys fastest and highest-flying aircraft.
It was flown by both US military demonstration teams (Navy Blue
Angels and the Air Force Thunderbirds) from 1969 to 1973. It ended
its service in 1991 with the RAF. But it continued to serve a
variety of air forces across the world, with some still in service
fifty years after its first flight. Throughout the twenty chapters
of this book, thirteen contributors will take readers across the
world with adventures in the Falkland Islands, the United States of
America, the United Kingdom, the Far East and Germany. There are
anecdotes of reconnaissance missions, encounters with the Russian
Tupolevs, record-breaking flights and life on HMS Ark Royal. The
scope, flair and pace of the writing in this book will appeal to
the general reader as well as to the enthusiast.
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