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F-4C Pylons w/o Sidewinder rails??


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OK, I'm building the Academy F-4C and will depict Col Olds' aircraft as it looked for the mission to bomb the steel mills at Thai Nguyen on 30 March '67.

 

I have a question on the pylons that had the TERs mounted. Would they have had these rear assemblies in place, when not carrying the AIM-9 rails? Or were these items part of the basic pylon and in place at all times?

 

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Paintings depict the pylons without them, but sometimes paintings will have minor technical inaccuracies...

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Thanks for any info y'all might have.

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No, those are chaff and flare dispensers that were added to the F-4 well after Vietnam.

 

Speaking of paintings, in the lower one you can see the wing tank on the a/c is gone but the pylon is still there, in actually the pylon and tank would go together if punched off. There is a separate stores pylon, as per the one with the ECM pod for weapons and such.

 

Jari

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2 minutes ago, Finn said:

No, those are chaff and flare dispensers that were added to the F-4 well after Vietnam.

 

Jari

Cool! OK, thanks. I figured that's what they were but not sure if they had them then or what.

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Just an interesting tidbit.  I have heard that before the introduction of a dedicated chaff dispensing system they put foil strips in the airbrake wells and activated the airbrakes to release the chaff.  

 

Geoff M

 

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