The F4 does in deed have spoilers and the latter models had slatted leading edges for better slow flight handling.
A friend of mine has over 700 hrs in the Rhino and told me that prior to the slatted wings that quite a few pilots were lost if they kicked the rudder too hard rolling in on a target. The slatted wing eliminated this nasty habit. Also during in-flight refueling with out the slats he would have to run one motor in burner as he would have to hold the aircraft in a near stall attitude to slow it down enough to stay behind the tanker!!

BTW May 27th, 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the Phantom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Here's the color scheme for mine.