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You Could’ve Just Bought A 600 MPH Car For $1,325,000
The 34-foot-long needle-nose car is built around the GE J79 engine from an F-4 Phantom II fighter jet that’s rated at 15,000 pounds of thrust. Breedlove’s wife Lee also used it to set a women ...
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Bob Pardo Once Pushed a Crippled F-4 Home With His F-4. In Flight.
Pardo’s initial plan was to snug the nose of his F-4 against the tail of Aman’s so he could use the thrust of his two General Electric J79 engines to propel both stricken airplanes to the ...
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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
However, its early USAF service exposed reliability issues with the J79 engine, which limited its long-term role in the Air ...
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The Bonneville Jet Wars
His Green Monster was powered by a General Electric J79, the engine of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. Art got it for $600 and rebuilt it himself after GE refused him a service manual. One week ...