Mike Barnett Aviation on MSN

How the big move set the F-4 Phantom’s future - "Restoration begins here"

Restoring a real F-4 Phantom II begins long before tools touch the aircraft. The first challenge was safely relocating the ...
Interesting Engineering

US Air Force, DARPA retrofit legacy F-16 with VENOM kit for successful autonomous flight

DARPA and the USAF have reached a major milestone for their joint VENOM program with an AI-piloted modified F-16 test flight.
Simple Flying

How The F-4 Phantom Defined Naval Aviation Before The F-14 & F-18

Luke Diaz is a freelance military writer with experience with active duty experience in the US Navy as well as defense and industrial engineering. He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Scotty Cameron expands Phantom lineup with new 3.2 and 12 putters

Specs: Multi-material mallet with plumber’s neck hosel and milled carbon steel face insert (Phantom 3.2). Aluminum face and mid-body with stainless-steel perimeter weighting (Phantom 12). Both ...
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The only operational F-4 Phantom II in private hands flew again seven years later

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a formidable and legendary fighter jet that made its first flight on May 27, 1958. Beautiful images of the last F-4 Phantom II fighters active in Europe The ...
SlashGear

F-4E Fighter Jets May Be Faster, But The F-16 Is Still Superior In Other Ways

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II flew with the United States military from 1958 to 1998, before it was finally retired from frontline service, although Greece and Turkey continue to fly the F-4E ...
IGN

Phantom Blade Zero Delay Moves Launch to Late October 2026

Developer S-Game has announced a delay for Phantom Blade Zero that will see its PC and PlayStation 5 release date pushed back almost two months. CEO and game creator Soulframe took to the studio's ...
digitalcameraworld

Sony’s new 100-400mm f/4.5 lens looks incredible – but I’m sticking to the older "inferior" version with its f/5.6 for two key reasons

As a Sony photographer, the new Sony 100-400mm G Master OSS looks like an incredible piece of kit. The constant f/4.5 aperture is an attractive spec, and one that would serve me particularly well as ...
SlashGear

There's A Reason The Blue Angels Started Flying The A-4 Fighter Jet After The F-4

Today, the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy's flight exhibition team, is well known for flying the aircraft carrier-based F/A-18 Super Hornet, a jet featured in Top Gun: Maverick and one that has a top ...
Mashable

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released its newest AI model Gemma 4, which is now both open and open source. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google just released the latest version of its ...