50 years later and it’s still the “Almighty” absolutely Nothing can match this aircraft !! Not A Thing ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Born in US with Iranian Money! Matured and tested by 8 years war! God bless United States Navy and Imperial Iranian Air Force. Long live the Tomcat❤❤❤❤❤
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This year marks my 20th for wearing the cloth of our nation (as one of my previous COs would say). There are few things in my enlisted military service that fill me with so much pride as throwing out hand signals to a pilot as a plane captain. I saw the F-14s fly around in their last days back in 2005 in VA. I saw an F-14 on the flight line up in Maryland around 2006-07 and I remember my old QA PO1 poking fun at us by saying "look at the old dinosaur" (we were an F-18 squadron) ;)
It may not be modern though as a Superiority Fighter The F-14 Would still give today's Fighters a run for their money and supersede them in other area's.
As a kid I was impressed by the first illustrations of the Tomcat prototypes I read about in Reader's Digest. As an almost retired pensioner, I'm still more impressed by the Tomcat than by any other fighter jet that came after it. No matter how superior the newer models are in performance, radar technology or weaponry. Hats off to Grumman!
