F-14 Tomcat Ping...
I know We have some FReepers out there that are Retired F-14 Pilots and RIO’s. Would love to hear from Y’All.
Thank You to All Our Veterans and Active Duty Military for doing what You did/are doing.
And for All the F-4 Phantom and other Bird Drivers out there I’m working on more. I have not forgotten Y’All.
Great plane. I never worked on it, but I saw a lot of them, and I was in love with it. I thought it was the sexiest plane there was.
Funny, back in the Seventies, I never saw one in a fully loaded configuration with four Phoenix, two Sparrows, and two Sidewinders.
Boss...just a BOSS plane!
LOL, I very nearly did get cooked alive by one when I got caught behind a JBD when one went off in afterburner...:)
The decision to incorporate the Super Hornet and decommission the F-14 is mainly due to high amount of maintenance required to keep the Tomcats operational. On average, an F-14 requires nearly 50 maintenance hours for every flight hour, while the Super Hornet requires five to 10 maintenance hours for every flight hour.
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006345.html
(((Ping)))