@Dave Howe + Count me in.

Me too. Give me plenty of notice, though. I’ll be coming from Oregon.

Yes, but not just a drink: a SPEYside whisky.

Thanks Carols! I shall keep the name in mind.

@Dave Cochrane Hi, Dave. It must have been a delight working with and/or for him. I was at Leauchars myself (1994_1998) and applied many a 111 sqn marking. I left the RAF in 2006 after 19 years as an NCO. I lived in Goose Bay for a few years and now live in the USA. How did your life turn out (better than a former Painter and Finisher I bet)!

@Dave Cochrane probably one of the most beautiful places in the world. Are you an an aviator then?

It's funny you say that because that was exactly what I thought when I first met him. I had no idea he was one of the RAFs best fighter pilots. No sense of ego (even though, unlike most, he could justify it). No sense of arrogance or self importance. Just a down to earth and highly capable individual with a real passion for what he does. Huge respect to Roy Mac!

Yes and can remember one CO. Lol

Thanks Rob.

Thnaks very much! Great to hear you're enjoying the channel.

Thanks Chris.

@@Aircrewinterview your welcome love your interviews

“Stealth” is what retires all this great planes. I echo your sentiment in relation to the F-111 (ex Bomb/Nav troop ‘76-‘82). Ps. There’s 3 dislikes on this vid...a case of soulless dolts?

RHWR is Radar Homing Warning Receiver

PRF was to do with the radar, Pulse Repetition Frequency if my memory serves me

It's due to the central reflux valve being located in too a close proximity to the pressure differential ducts and the fact that the airflow and pressure regulating stableizers being inconsistent with the left and right configuration of the thrust monitoring sensors.....that's my guess anyway...hope this helps.

Yes, thrust reversers

@@garryharriman7349 good guess👍 spot on

@@stevenlarratt3638 Thanks for humouring me, Steven. I used to paint them and talk shite like this to the techs. That black residue was particularly difficult to remove and caused a lot of work for us before the real work began! There are port and starboard ducts on both sides of the fin, mid line up from and behind the pre cooler, so I suspect it's exhaust gases from those vents that caused the deposits and not the thrust reverser buckets finction.

@@garryharriman7349 i used to be a tech 😂... it is a paint job... the navy should domit with their anchors ports so as to hide the rust...

USAF models did get the gun, but none of the Navy or British models were built with one. The Aussies developed something for their models and whenever USN/MC or British Phantoms were over there, they apparently asked very nicely to have some

But having the nose gun did incur a penalty as the F-4E had to be fitted with a smaller pulse radar. The British Phantom was essentially a modified F-4J equipped with the excellent AWG-11 (FG.1) and AWG-12 (FGR.2) radar with a pulse doppler. As usual with all military jets, you just have to decide on the compromise. ;-)

Justyn Keeble:: That's interesting. Everything is a compromise/trade-off.... The Missiles always had problems too, usually from storage and handling. It was amazing that they got any kills in Nam.

@@nimrodquimbus912 I gather from a guy who worked on F-4E's in SEA that it was a pretty awful environment for anything electronic due to the humidity!

@@hvymtal8566 The Australian Air Force leased 24 Phantoms four roughly 4 years (1970-1973) due to the delay of the F-111C which they bought back in the 1960s! These were E-models taken from USAF stocks; they didn't buy them. They returned 23 of those planes after their F-111C force was ready for service. There was serious talk about keeping the F-4s but it was considered uneconomical to do that and the F-111 was a better ground attack plane anyway. The 24th Phantom was lost in an accident.

Glaswegian

@@kyliemull3709 He said in the interview he's from Stirling.

@@kyliemull3709 don't tell it to Roy, he could feel offended and throw his whisky on your face!

His accent is Stirling-ish, Probably more Bannockburn. Of course the RAF will have influenced and changed his dialect.

@@berty1422 Causewayhead/Bridge of Allan.

Hmm interesting comment, I watched a video of an American F15 pilot who flew in Tornados on an exchange visit. Whilst talking, he completly rubbished the plane and it's manual wing sweep system and the huge ass tail. He made some interesting observations. Good to see the alternate viewpoint from an RAF pilot praising the same systems. Having read pilot experiences of the Tornado, I think that the plane is probably average in performance and was more, a political response to the needs of the RAF due to financial constraints (let's not forget the economic problems that the UK had at the time). It was developed at the time as an all rounder that didn't quite fit into a single role but was competent in various scemarios. Just shows the quality of the pilots that flew them to garner the performance that they did.

The F3 wasn’t a dog fighter but it would lock onto a target 100 miles away, when they were demonstrating it to the Saudis it locked onto a Lightning head on, can’t remember the distance but it was incredible

Yup. I saw that one as well. He moaned about ,manual selecting wing-sweep and the F-14 done it automatically. But that is typical American. RoyMac described it like driving a manual gearbox or an automatic gearbox. Which is normal for every American, they CANNOT drive manual gearboxes. Not so much the airframe that decides the outcome of battle but the weapons and tactics. Until they both fought one another - you would never know which is better.