Many still have a soft spot for this old sack of metal and rivets, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. If you’re one of them, you probably wouldn’t throw a hissy fit if we posted archived footage of the rusty fighter doing some nifty maneuvers, back in its heyday? Right?

This particular reel might be the gold standard as far as Phantom highlight films go.

It’s an aerial demonstration of the aircraft by the German Luftwaffe (German Air Force), over St. Paul’s Bay on the Southern European island country of Malta.

Boom:

Speaking of the Bent Wing Wonder/Elephant/Double Ugly/Rhino/Old Smokey, err, the F-4 Phantom II if you’re a stickler — here’s an old funny, satirical video the military aircraft blog Foxtrot Alpha dug up of a pilot playing a used Phantom salesman named Cal Worthington, pitching like they’re ketchup popsicles and we’re all wearing white gloves (circa-we’re-guessing mid-1990s perhaps?):