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Les Matheson wrote:
The slotted stabs were only on the slatted (post -556) birds. Most Es, all Fs,Gs and subsequent models. Hard wing F-4s didn't have slotted stabs. -- It sure wasn't part of the -556 mod (cockpit switches, major rework of the armament relay panels, new wire bundles, improved gunsight, and similar) but a whole bunch of mods were done at the same time as -556. I don't recall seeing *many* slotted stabs on F-4Es during the period 1968-72, though there were a few. Originally, the LE of the stab was without the fixed, mini-slats up front. IIRC, the slotted stab mod had its own TCTO - but I have no idea of the number. Finding it would provide a list of the applicable tail numbers which hadn't already had it accomplished on the TCTO issue date. If I had to guess, it was around the time of the flash- suppressor extension to the gun fairing, or shortly thereafter... making it about mid-1971 or later. |
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