Old F-4 Bounces off Highway 98
The drone drivers at Tyndall lost a QF-4, a converted F-4 Phantom modded to fly as an unmanned drone for target practice. Said robot plane wound up crashing near Highway 98 just outside of PC. Its large target indeed at 68-feet long and 38 feet wide, they could take off weighing as much as twenty tons. The 1958-designed Phantom is still in service with Greece, Turkey and Japan while Germany just retired thier last models in the past few months. The German F-4s were so smokey that they called them Luftverteidigungsdiesel (“Air Defense Diesel”) fighters.
Well the one in Bay County sure is smokin baby Boom!
This is not a manned fighter bomber any more. It is a remote control drone..and sometimes they go slightly off course