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  • You Thought Cooking Your Turkey Was Tough? Try Maintaining An F-14!

    11/17/2020 1:16:48 PM PST · by mabarker1 · 48 replies
    Jalopnik ^ | 11/27/14 8:45AM | Tyler Rogoway
    Tomcat may have been the F-14's official moniker, but its other nickname was 'Turkey.' Seeing as many of us will be slaving away in an attempt to cook perfect turkey today, it is only proper that we pay homage to the hard working sailors who had to the cook a perfect Turkey every time- those who maintained the crazily complex F-14 'Turkey.'The nickname 'Turkey,' or 'Turkeybird,' came from how the normally super-sleek, muscular and famous fighter looked on the catapult going through control checks or on approach to landing, when the aircraft's entire trailing edge seemed to fan out...