First flown in 1958, the F-4 would serve as an important bridge between relatively simple Korean War-era fighters, like the F-86 Sabre, and still-relevant fourth-generation fighters, like the F-15 ...

Products of the mid- to late 1950s, they were members of the second generation of jet fighters—post-North American F-86 Sabre class and pre-McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom class. The epitome of ...