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1 posted on 03/20/2010 4:18:21 PM PDT by EnjoyingLife
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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)
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To: EnjoyingLife

WAAAYYYY Kewl !!!


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)
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To: EnjoyingLife
That, um, excites me.
4 posted on 03/20/2010 4:23:07 PM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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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)
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To: magslinger

ping


8 posted on 03/20/2010 4:30:09 PM PDT by Vroomfondel
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To: EnjoyingLife

Got wood?


10 posted on 03/20/2010 4:33:06 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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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.


11 posted on 03/20/2010 4:34:14 PM PDT by max americana
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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)
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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?)
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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!)
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To: Vroomfondel; SC Swamp Fox; Fred Hayek; NY Attitude; P3_Acoustic; Bean Counter; investigateworld; ...
SONOBUOY PING!

Click on pic for past Navair pings.

Post or FReepmail me if you wish to be enlisted in or discharged from the Navair Pinglist.
The only requirement for inclusion in the Navair Pinglist is an interest in Naval Aviation.
This is a medium to low volume pinglist.

23 posted on 03/20/2010 5:01:53 PM PDT by magslinger (Cry MALAISE! and let slip the dogs of incompetence.)
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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!)
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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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