To: EnjoyingLife
You know what the old drivers say.”Hornets by mandate. Tomcats by choice!!
2 posted on
03/20/2010 4:22:05 PM PDT by
xkaydet65
(Never compromise with evil! Even in the face of Armageddon!! Rorshach)
To: EnjoyingLife
3 posted on
03/20/2010 4:22:58 PM PDT by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: EnjoyingLife
That, um, excites me.
4 posted on
03/20/2010 4:23:07 PM PDT by
Glenn
(iamtheresistance.org)
To: EnjoyingLife
That’s a negative, Ghostrider, the pattern is full.
7 posted on
03/20/2010 4:27:26 PM PDT by
edpc
(Those Lefties just ain't right)
To: magslinger
To: EnjoyingLife
To: EnjoyingLife
The first reason why I love F-14’s was because they were the fighter plane that was in the anime series ROBOTECH when I was a kid. Including the skull and bones’ insignia in the tail section.
To: EnjoyingLife
If the date is March 1, 1991 and this is USS America, then this is the Persian Gulf and not the Red Sea.
Sorry for the quibble alert.
13 posted on
03/20/2010 4:38:09 PM PDT by
castowell
("I'm 95% cured" - BHO, 6/23/09)
To: magslinger
Gotta be worth a Navair ping!
20 posted on
03/20/2010 4:49:05 PM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: EnjoyingLife
A guy that I know from the dog park I go to got out of the Navy a few years back. He wasn’t a pilot but a mechanic who had worked on both aircraft. He said that the F14 required tremendous maintenance- far more than the F18 Hornet. He said this was one of the reasons for retiring the F14- that it was just too expensive to keep them going. It wasn’t retired for performance reasons. I don’t have knowledge in this area. Is this true anyone of you guys who know about these things?
22 posted on
03/20/2010 4:59:09 PM PDT by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough!)
To: Vroomfondel; SC Swamp Fox; Fred Hayek; NY Attitude; P3_Acoustic; Bean Counter; investigateworld; ...
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23 posted on
03/20/2010 5:01:53 PM PDT by
magslinger
(Cry MALAISE! and let slip the dogs of incompetence.)
To: EnjoyingLife
The F-14 is still the sexiest fighter ever. Spent an embarrassingly amount of time admiring the lines of a Tomcat on a dimly lit hanger deck. Beautiful.
26 posted on
03/20/2010 6:26:34 PM PDT by
ryan71
(Let's Roll!)
To: EnjoyingLife
The only thing subsonic on that Tom is the cover on his tail light...
29 posted on
03/20/2010 7:06:28 PM PDT by
Bean Counter
(I keeps mah feathers numbered, for just such an emergency...)
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