Beyond the Radome | F-4 Phantom

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Work continues on the Phantom! Some of the crew are working on installing the brake lines and anti-skid wiring on the right main strut. My son and I get the transformer-rectifiers installed, which went way better today. We also popped open the radome and got to take a peek inside!
More videos coming this week! Weather permitting, the F-100 Super Sabre should fly on Sunday! I'll have the GoPro cameras onboard for that, so there'll be a video of the flight out this week! If for some reason the F-100 doesn't fly, I'll put out a Community post so everyone will know.
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Комментарии : 54

@ddlem2437 2 дня назад

I was a secret squirel in 1970s. That chin dome was stuffed with 2 antenna the hump area had 2 detectors and 2 amps. The system was the aps 107a later upgraded to aps 107d. Wiring was horrible, had to use a tdr to find cold solder joints in canon plugs and bulkhead feedthrus. We called ourselves "your friendly local ecm weinees" Keep up the great work

@trespire 2 дня назад

The reward in maintaining a Phantom, is the satisfaction when you get it done right. Because hardly anything is easy. I never got that satisfaction maintaining an F-16 ! Phantoms require a whole nother level of skill, patiance, technical knowladge & dogged tanacity. Our E's had the Pitot tube on the radome nose. That radar is a thing of beauty, groundbreaking tech. in its day. Nice work there getting everything installed and closed out.

@KillerKev1961 2 дня назад

Blood letting to appease the Phantom gods. Thank you for these videos. Its 1980 for me with VMFA-323 all over again. Love it.

@jorgemachado7784 2 дня назад

You know, sometimes you have to sweat blood to keep them flying. Superb job, man. And thanks for showing the details of the radar. Really nice stuff.

@DieselThunderAviation День назад

Our pleasure! Was a real treat to see inside the dome!

@ldmurphy6649 2 дня назад

I haven’t commented in a while, but I have been keeping up. Really appreciate these videos. Enjoying seeing the progress and feeling the frustration with you when things don’t move fast enough.

@stosh2112 2 дня назад

Looks like a tough knuckle buster job

@aviationrambler 2 дня назад

I come here every week just astounded that people kept these things operational under war time conditions.

@DieselThunderAviation День назад

Mind boggling to think about that, and to have it combat ready too!

@RocketToTheMoose 2 дня назад

Every time I go to a hobby show, I buy some hemostats at the booth that sells all sorts of random tools. I've broken a few of them too.

@rodrv6 2 дня назад

Love watching the work on the F-4! One nitpick though, the safety wire on those bolts is incorrect, it should always be trying to “pull” the bolts tight. Get Crew Chief Al to show you. I’ve had to go back more than once and redo it😆

@DieselThunderAviation День назад

Yeah, looking at that, I am going to redo those. Good for practice 🙂

@mobiuspenguin 2 дня назад

Man if the F-100 can fly/is flying again, i'd LOVE to see her flying around a WOH!

@DieselThunderAviation 2 дня назад

Too early to know for sure what all is confirmed to fly at WOH this year, other than the Blue Angels. Would be really cool to have the Hun and the Phantom up for the show!

@TalibanJoe 2 дня назад

for someone that knows cars and nothing about working on aircraft this looks other worldly complicated haha

@corvettedoc1 2 дня назад

Let's see some footage of that F-100 flying!!!!

@evansnyder430 2 дня назад

Amazing it still has the radar and not just a giant weight with as temperamental as these things were.

@DieselThunderAviation День назад

Well that is essentially all it is these days, just weight 🙂

@fsj197811 2 дня назад

Hemostat... Brilliant! Congrats on getting the components back where they belong, tightened down, and buttoned up. I understand it but bummer that the radar isn't functional. As always, thanks for sharing.

@DieselThunderAviation 2 дня назад

Indeed! I imagine a set of needle nose vise grips would worked too, but the hemostats are smaller and a bit easier to work with. The radar wouldn’t do much for us with how we operate the aircraft, at best it’d be an overpowered weather radar with no spare parts.

@fsj197811 2 дня назад

@@DieselThunderAviation Is that a hemostat you used or a forcept? As far as I can tell the difference is forcepts have ridges for gripping and hemostats are smooth. It doesn't seem like they'd grip anything very big, say above #10 or maybe 1/4" ? Regardless, great idea and I'll be picking up a pair of forcepts.

@DieselThunderAviation 2 дня назад

Then these are forceps, they had the ridged jaws. I’ve seem them each in a variety of sizes. The ones I used were on the larger side. Great for fishing as well!

@chrishuber3814 2 дня назад

Man, I can feel your pain with the safetywire. I still have scars from my days doing safetywire.

@DieselThunderAviation 2 дня назад

Yeah, it’s really easy to catch fingers and hands working with it. Not to mention if someone before you didn’t bend back the ends and you get snagged by those 😬

@trespire 2 дня назад

After a while you develope titanium knuckls !

@chrishuber3814 2 дня назад

@@DieselThunderAviation one thing I used to do that helped was to wrap the excess handle of the safetywire pliers. That way it wouldn't whip around and get your fingers.

@pickandstrum 2 дня назад

You must have someone who knows how to safely remove the Martin baker ejection seat😊

@jeffreypeterson7073 2 дня назад

Get your T.O. out! Here comes QA!

@Racer1505 2 дня назад

As much as I like the f-4 stuff. I want to see the hun. I wish you had more time to show the hun

@DieselThunderAviation День назад

Got some good stuff from her flight yesterday! Should have that published in the next couple of days 🙂

@Racer1505 День назад

@@DieselThunderAviation I hope you got the launch. And what the crew chief is doing.

@bradleycass11 2 дня назад

18:04, it looks like the safety wire is going the wrong direction

@flynlr День назад

looks like it

@DieselThunderAviation День назад

Yep, I’m going to redo that!

@Stepclimb День назад

All good except for the bottom bolts.

@robertschuler279 2 дня назад

That's great. How did you get the washers on the bolts for the TR that you put in?

@DieselThunderAviation 2 дня назад

Yes, washers were installed. Certainly don’t want to do this twice

@danielcoburn8635 2 дня назад

Safety wired plenty of the Aim-7 launchers, both bolts and breeches. Barely enough room through the access panels, and Lord help you if they had moved the aircraft while the launcher was out without the spacer block! You would have the slowly tow the aircraft around while trying the get the bolts in.

@flyer617 2 дня назад

I would restore the radar. Just because.

@user-uv3gj4wk6s 2 дня назад

Just from curiosity. Any chances to repair this cut fat cable in the radar compartment?

@DieselThunderAviation День назад

Unfortunately not. Between the cabling, missing parts, and lack of any documentation, we have no chance to repair the radar. It would also be a massive amount of work for little gain with how the jet is operated.

@thunderbolt513 2 дня назад

Well as I don`t know your real name (whitch in fact doen`t concerne me😁)I`ll adress you as D.T. Just out of curiosity is that real blood on that ejection seat base (or rail)? If it is, I was right on my last comment when I told you guys poured blood, sweat and tears on that project. And would it be more complicated if you had disassembled all stuff and took it of the plane to do all that work outside that extremely tight place? 🤙. Good winds and happy landings from Portugal

@curtisr8179 День назад

I haven't seen the inside of an F-4 Radome in 43 years! Reminds me of bummer of a night at Edwards AFB. I was working in the Aero/ Repair 6515 FMS removing the panels around the forward windscreen for R/R and the apex In my speed handle feel out.....and I could hear it work its way down Somewhere in the aft part of the radome........the radar folks already Went home for the night.....Red x In the forms , called avionics People had to come back to the Hangar and remove the. radar package for my skinny butt to crawl In there with a flashlight and mirror And FIND that #2 apex........ after most of the night looking...I FOUND The little sob ! Called avionics folks to hook there stuff back up and Had the RED x signed off.....and I got to go home to the wife then. Dang what a night to remember! So much, I remember it damn near 45 years later!😳

@curtisr8179 День назад

That's why I enjoy your channel Diesel brings back memories in The Cobb webs of my mind !

@Fabulousprofound168 2 дня назад

16:17 is that handwriting on the plane at the bottom left of the screen? Does it say something?

@DieselThunderAviation День назад

It does, hard to make out the first word, but the second word is “missing”. Wonder if that is referring to one of the parts that was removed?

@physicsphirst191 2 дня назад

What did the sticker on the antenna dish say?

@DieselThunderAviation 2 дня назад

To put it politely, it says “sh*t happens”. Gave me a good chuckle as I didn’t expect to see that there. 😁

@williamcaldwell1794 2 дня назад

with all the vibration in that Aircraft shouldn't you use Loctite or safety wire?? just asking?

@DieselThunderAviation 2 дня назад

On the left hand TR (lower one), it’s near impossible to get safety wire on those fasteners so that one uses the self locking nuts. Since the upper one only uses bolts in a threaded hole, those get safety wired.

@fsj197811 2 дня назад

You can't see good enough in the video but I'd bet good money those nuts are 'crimped' (don't know the right word). They're slightly deformed so they're a friction fit so they can't vibrate loose. Sort of like if you were to 'stake' the nut before you ever installed it. The nuts on top of the plate at 10:52 are also locking nuts.

@DieselThunderAviation 2 дня назад

@fsj198711 Same kind of nut that you spotted on that plate are the same ones used on that lower TR. When I removed that lower one a few months ago, none of the bolts/nuts were loose. Have no idea when the last time it was removed, likely it was in place for well over a decade or more.

@trespire 2 дня назад

@@fsj197811 Crimp-Lock nuts, should be to NAS spec.