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To: Melian

Who doesn’t love an F-14 if you are American.


1,383 posted on 06/08/2021 7:06:57 PM PDT by xone ( )
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To: xone
Who doesn’t love an F-14 if you are American.

Well, I'm a bit old to do much but really, really like the TOMCAT.

The birds I "love" are the ones I knew best: A-6 Intruder and the mighty F-4 Phantom. 'Truder didn't have the speed or sex appeal of FAST MOVER but it just..got..the..job..done. (Sort of like that grubby ol' pickup that you couldn't ever kill off.)

Okay, there's another lovebird I share with my Dad: P-51D Mustang. Talked my way into a flight in a two-seat version and the experience almost made me give up jets.

If I go any further trying to describe it, I'll just wind up jibbering like a fool. Just damn.....

1,403 posted on 06/08/2021 8:11:39 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.)
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To: xone

“Who doesn’t love an F-14 if you are American”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

Boyd HATED the F-14. Father of the F-16 (and by association the F-18 hornet).

One of the best books I’ve read:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38840.Boyd


1,460 posted on 06/09/2021 4:08:32 AM PDT by genetic homophobe
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