Ill help anyone with an f-4 as their avatar. Badass is an understatement for that machine.
Just like on paper a bumblebee isn't supposed to be able to fly, the F-4 Phantom is proof that if you put big enough engines on just about anything, it'll fly!
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I imagine the USAF is still teaching that Bernoulli's equation is the reason that aircraft fly, therefor a bumblebee can't. Bumblebee flight (as well as all flight) is easily explained by Newton's third law of motion "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." As has been pointed out here, Bernoulli's equation applies to incompressible liquids, not air.
Push on enough air molecules and they'll push back enough to get you in the air.
The F-4 had a variety of advanced aerodynamic factors built into it. Aerodynamic fence (wings bent up), downward bent stabilator (to keep the pitch control from being blanked out at high angles of attack), moveable ramp air intakes (to keep the engine from swallowing the supersonic shock wave), and boundary layer control (to give us relatively slow landing approach speeds). The 34,000 pounds of thrust didn't hurt.
Heck this is more fun than trying to get the Raidcan started lol. McDonald Douglas built some great aircraft, one being the F-4 and the other the 15. I believe the 18 also but Boeing likes to claim that since they bought McD. You guys ought to see my shifter, it's a B-8 grip off a fighter on a force transducer from an F-4.
I'm sure there is lot more, but it's been along time....
