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Goldi-Lox posted on #4
So what does the government do with a TOTAL WINNER like the Tomcat...pays several million dollars to destroy the tooling so they can never be built again! Thank Dick Chaney personally for that one
also see reply 22
What a dumb thing to do . In the 50s the experts said. Don’t put guns on . And then in the 60s Had geakboy screwing every thing up. And this “ one for all “ Thing has been tryed. No one ever learns.
Plus the F-14 has two people on board. One to bend the craft around the sky. And one to tweak the knobs. I don’t care how fancy the computer & HUD are. One guy can’t do it all ! The Pilot & Reo are two different personalities. Can a F- 15,16,18 be looked out the front & back at the same time. the F-14 can.
The F/A-18s a good aircraft but it was a replacement for the A-4 & 7 not the F-14.
Now for the weekend everyone go out and get. Flight of the Intruder, Top Gun, The Final Countdown and Bridges at Toko Re. And round the night off with Dr. Strangelove, Fail-safe. & Strategic Air Command. ( there also a good 60s F-104 move can’t remember what it is )
100% correct and exacty the point (and the problem).
The F-18 just isn't the aircraft we should have replaced the F-14 with (We should have built the F-14 Super D's) -
Probably the worst mistake VP Cheney has made in his career (while then being the Sec of Defense) -
Simply a terrible decision to destory all the tooling for the F-14's - (unbelievably dumb by Cheney).