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Cal Worthington's Used F-4s

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Cal Worthington's Used F-4s #494


and if you're not old enough to remember what this fake ad is referencing, here's an old Cal Worthington ad for you:




Fitting that they're making fun of him and aircraft as a lot of people did not know this about him:

]From Wikipedia]

World War II
At the beginning of World War II, Worthington enlisted in the Army Air Corps. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant, he was the aerobatics champion at Goodfellow Field in San Angelo, Texas. He saw combat as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 390th Bomber Group, flying 29 missions over Germany. He was discharged after the war as a captain. Worthington was awarded the Air Medal five times, and received the Distinguished Flying Cross, which was presented to him by General Jimmy Doolittle.

Worthington's military service was frequently revisited in the 21st century in aviation magazines, since he had trained pilots who would become some of America's first astronauts.

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When I saw the thread title, I thought "not this again", but you included some pretty cool info about the original Cal. Nice!

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