F4J BIS Guided Missile Trials is a short technical film report from the Naval Air Systems Command in Point Mugu, CA on the March 1967 BIS trials of the AWG-10 Missile Control System and related components on a McDonnell Douglas F4J Phantom II. The BIS (Board of Inspection and Survey) trials were divided into five categories: ground tests, captive flights, launch flights, serviceability, and human factors tests. The film opens with an F4J being towed on a runway; the aircraft carries four AIM-7D or 7E Sparrow III missiles on Arrow 7-A launchers; in some of the tests, the aircraft also carries Sidewinder missiles. Pilots climb into the cockpit of the ship. An F4J takes off from a runway. Technicians pull out the AWG-10 Missile Control System from the nose of the aircraft (02:05). A radar dish extends from the AWG-10 and scans back and forth. Graphics are used to show how the AWG-10 system works. An F4J flies over Point Mugu armed with missiles (04:47). The film shows the instrumentation pod used to record data from the guided missile system test trials (05:20). An F4J is backed over a drop area to test missile launch ability (06:30); missiles are released and fall into the opening. Men measure the hazard area of the AWG-10 system. Three men test serviceability by loading missiles onto the aircraft (08:10). A BIS official times the loading of the missiles. An F4J goes into an environmental laboratory building (09:20) where the aircraft is tested against hot and cold temperatures and heavy water exposure. Men examine where water leaked into the system and the plane (10:00), then reseal and test again. The missile service crew loads missiles under simulated day and night conditions. They load an AIM-9B Sidewinder, an AIM-7 Sparrow III, and load another Sparrow III using an Arrow 52-A hoist cart. Several men give the plane and missile system a complete electrical checkout back in the hanger (11:36). Prior to the captive test flight, missiles are loaded onto the F4J (13:10). Officials go over the pre-flight checkout. The lead test conductor gives a pre-flight briefing in a room. The F4J taxis for takeoff; the test conductor and others monitor the tests from a control center (14:26). Other BIS members observe results from the data center. Engineers and analysists review the data gathered from the operation (15:54). The pilot gives a debriefing to the people involved in the tests. The F4J flies through the air at high altitudes (16:58); then the film shows two F4Js flying side-by-side. One of the planes launches a missile during the trials-likely an AIM-7E (17:31). Illustrations show the results of the first several launches of AIM-7E missiles, showing the range and the speeds of the F4J and the target. Men attach several Sidewinder AIM-9B missiles to the F4J to test missile compatibility (21:10). A man sits at a BIT system for testing the AWG-10 (21:41). An F4J taxis into a parked position and the pilots climb out of the aircraft, concluding the film.
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed for the United States Navy by McDonnell Aircraft. It first entered service in 1960 with the U.S. Navy. Proving highly adaptable, it was also adopted by the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force, and by the mid-1960s had become a major part of their air arms.
The AN/APQ-120 was an aircraft fire control radar (FCR) manufactured by Westinghouse for the McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II. AN/AWG is defined by the Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS) and stands for (A/N) Army/Navy (A) Piloted Aircraft (W) Armament (G) Fire Control. AN/APG-59 was the first FCR integrated into AN/AWG-10, which developed into two more versions, A and B. The original AN/AWG-10 can detect an aerial target with 5 square meters radar cross section more than 100 kilometers away. AN/AWG-10A is a development of the original AN/AWG-10, with great improvement in reliability and maintainability by replacing the original transmitter in AN/AWG-10 by a solid state unit whose only tube was a klystron power amplifier.
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