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The McDonnell Douglas F-4 (Phantom II) is an American two-seat multi-role fighter originally developed as a two-seater, long-range, all weather attack-fighter for the US Navy and was first flown in 1958. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with sweep-back wings powered by two General Electric J79-GE-8 turbojet engines providing a top speed of about Mach 2.5 and a combat radius of about 1600 km. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 is armed with one 20-mm General Electric M61A1 Vulcan six-barrel rotary cannon in the lower nose (in later models) and up to 16000 lbs of disposable stores carried in four lower fuselage missile stations and on five hard points, one under the fuselage and two under each wing. Ordnance being comprised of a combination of: four AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles; six AIM-7E/F/M Sparrow or BAe Skyflash air-to-air missiles; one B57 up to 20-kiloton free-fall nuclear weapon; one B61 Mod 2/ 3/4/5 100/500-kiloton free-fall nuclear weapon; six AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missiles; eight GBU-16 Paveway II 1000 lb laser-guided bombs; eleven Mk 82 500lb GP free-fall or retarded bombs; thirteen M117 750 lb demolition bombs; thirteen BLU-1O/B 740 lb fire bombs; thirteen CBU-49/A 830 lb bomblet dispensers; four GPU-5/ A pods for one 30 mm GAU-13/A cannon each; four SUU-16/A or 23/A pods for one 20 mm M61A1 or GAU-4 cannon each; five 370 US gal drop tanks.
During the early 1960's McDonnell Douglas F-4 aircraft established numerous world records for speed, altitude and time-to-height.
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My Gal Sal is a musical biopic starring Victor Mature and Rita Hayworth. It is a fictionalised story of the life of popular songwriter Paul Dresser. My Gal Sal was directed by Irving Cummings.
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GAL is an abbreviation for Generic Array Logic
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Red Gal Ring is a village in St Andrew, Jamaica.
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Gal is a Hanseman language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Gal is American slang for a girl.
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Owl-gal is Jamaican slang for a promiscuous woman.
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