The Phantom Story

by Anthony M. Thornborough

Book Overview

For more than 30 years, the powerful F-4 Phantom has dominated Western skies. 370 photos from every period of the Phantom's long and widespread service, plus line drawings, tell the complete story of this phenomenally successful aircraft. Starting with the F-4's inception as an all-purpose Navy missile-armed fighter, follow every naval and land-based variant, development prototype, and modification, as well as its service histories and role in electronic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854091212
• ISBN13: 9781854091215
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Arms & Armour Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

A good book about a great plane.

Comes very close to covering everything about the F-4, from development, variations and deployment. It covers foreign users as well. The spey engined version gets a fair amount of coverage in terms of its development but comparitively little on its deployment. Some coverage of the isreali deployment and use but little about the range of modifications done while in isreali service. Other foreign users only gets a brief mention.

The best book on the greatest plane ever.

Okay, so I'm biased. I used to love to look at these big, ugly, loud beasts as they tore into the sky using nothing but sheer power. 5000 of them were built over the years, and a design that originated in the 1950s is still being used as a front-line fighter in some countries. This book is exhaustively detailed and packed full of photos, covering all aspects of the Phantoms illustrious career. I do not have the updated edition, but the one I have is very detailed, so I have no fears that the new edition can only include more detail.(MALS-41, supporting VMFA-112 F-4S Phantoms, USMC 1988-1992)