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and crew, production table by MDS letter, UK FG.1/FGR.2 mapping.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "phantom-identity-and-lineage", "name": "Phantom identity and lineage", "description": "Establishes what aircraft this is and how its identity survives changes in service and physical composition.", "rationale": "F-4 markings, designations and ownership can change, while restored displays may combine material from several aircraft.", "layers": [ { "id": "aircraft-identification", "name": "Aircraft identification", "description": "Connects physical identifiers and recognition evidence to an individual F-4.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-evidence", "name": "Identity evidence", "description": "Records the evidence supporting F-4 family membership and the identity of this airframe.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which physical identifiers and authoritative records establish that this is an F-4 Phantom II and identify the individual aircraft?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Do visible markings and recognition features agree with those records, and which discrepancies remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-and-material-continuity", "name": "Service and material continuity", "description": "Tracks identity through operator changes, conversions and replacement of major aircraft sections.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-through-change", "name": "Continuity through change", "description": "Distinguishes the aircraft's documented identity from donor components and represented display identities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which transfers, redesignations and conversions connect the aircraft's recorded identities over time?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-through-change-q01" }, { "text": "Does the surviving object retain one documented airframe identity, or is it a replica, fragment or composite whose displayed identity needs 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{ "text": "Which documented nose, wing, propulsion, gun or reconnaissance features distinguish that baseline from nearby F-4 variants?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "configuration-baseline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "modifications-and-equipment", "name": "Modifications and equipment", "description": "Records departures from the baseline, including operator upgrades and display alterations.", "findings": [ { "id": "actual-installed-fit", "name": "Actual installed fit", "description": "Describes the current aircraft configuration and the evidence supporting each material departure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which engines, flight-control modifications, sensors and cockpit systems are currently installed, and when was their presence verified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "actual-installed-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which differences represent approved service modifications, incomplete work, removed equipment or cosmetic restoration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "actual-installed-fit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "airframe-and-propulsion-condition", "name": "Airframe and propulsion condition", "description": "Assesses the surviving aircraft's physical integrity and the condition of its installed propulsion.", "rationale": "An identifiable, complete-looking F-4 may still lack the structural or propulsion evidence needed for movement, engine operation or flight.", "layers": [ { "id": "structural-life-and-integrity", "name": "Structural life and integrity", "description": "Relates recorded usage, inspections and repairs to the condition of the aircraft structure.", "findings": [ { "id": "structural-evidence", "name": "Structural evidence", "description": "Records usage and condition evidence without inferring structural health from appearance or age alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What flight hours, applicable cycle counts and usage-history gaps are documented for this F-4 airframe?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "structural-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What do applicable inspections establish about fatigue, corrosion, repairs and the integrity of wings, fuselage, landing gear and attachment points?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "structural-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "installed-engine-condition", "name": "Installed engine condition", "description": "Assesses each engine as installed in this aircraft and records limitations affecting propulsion use.", "findings": [ { "id": "propulsion-readiness", "name": "Propulsion readiness", "description": "Separates engine identity and physical presence from documented eligibility for operation.", "questions": [ { "text": "For each engine position, what engine identity, usage, preservation history and latest condition assessment are documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propulsion-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Which outstanding defects, installation checks or maintenance requirements prevent an authorised engine run or flight?", "kind": "action", "id": "propulsion-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "crew-and-mission-capability", "name": "Crew and mission capability", "description": "Determines what the installed cockpit and mission systems support in the aircraft's current configuration.", "rationale": "A historic F-4 role or variant label does not establish that crew stations, sensors or mission interfaces remain functional.", "layers": [ { "id": "crew-station-function", "name": "Crew-station function", "description": "Records the equipment and verified functions available at each tandem crew position.", "findings": [ { "id": "cockpit-function-and-readiness", "name": "Cockpit function and readiness", "description": "Establishes the actual control, indication, communication and escape-system condition at each station.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which controls, instruments and communications functions are fitted and verified at each crew station for this configuration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cockpit-function-and-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What documented deficiencies in crew support or escape systems restrict occupancy, ground operation or flight?", "kind": "action", "id": "cockpit-function-and-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mission-function-status", "name": "Mission-function status", "description": "Separates documented service roles from presently available mission functions.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-role-capability", "name": "Verified role capability", "description": "Records evidence for installed sensing, reconnaissance and other mission functions without providing employment procedures.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which mission roles are documented for this specific aircraft, and which corresponding systems remain installed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-role-capability-q01" }, { "text": "Which functions are verified, untested, disabled or represented only by display equipment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "verified-role-capability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorised-use-and-preservation", "name": "Authorised use and 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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