You can almost feel the ground shaking as the twin Spey turbofans of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom send orange plumes shooting down the runway, propelling one of the icons of the Cold War into the blue. The F-4 Phantom served with both the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy as a carrier based fleet protector, and as a ground attack, reconnaissance and air defence fighter from the 1960s into the early 1990s.