F-14 Tomcat to Tornado F3 | Tom "Steamer" Bau (Part 2)

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Former F-14A/B Tomcat pilot, Tom "Steamer" Bau, shares getting an exchange to fly the Tornado F3 with 56 Squadron at RAF Coningsby!
He shares what it was like arriving in the UK for the first time, training at Valley on the Hawk, arriving on 56, training, flying the F3, strengths and weaknesses of the jet, and how it compared to the Tomcat, DACT, and much more!
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Комментарии : 69

@kentgregory3299 2 года назад

Great guest. His honesty makes it a top shelf interview. Thanks for sharing.

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Thanks Kent.

@Markielee72 2 года назад

I was a UK fighter controller at the time Steamer was at 56 Sqn so would almost certainly have briefed with him at some point. What a lovely guy and really insightful interview. 👍

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Nice one Mark.

@hhall1932 2 года назад

he seems like an amazing guy and really down to earth and worldly too!

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

He is a top chap for sure.

@AdmV0rl0n 2 года назад

The F3 did a sterling job in its main role which was a relatively long legged interceptor. Later in life its Radar, Missiles, etc were pretty good. It wasn't really ever a dogfighter in design, build or usage. For going out over the north sea and picking up the bears and similar, I suspect we could have kept it in service for the work it was often doing. As a stopgap design, overall it did ok.

@ftc9258 2 года назад

Another great interview. Like practice makes perfect. Your skills as an interviewer are really something else. The weapons school instructor level, it truly is.

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Thanks very much!!

@foremarkhall 2 года назад

I knew Steamer at 56. Nice fella and always willing to talk about the F14.

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Nice one.

@yanktornado5121 2 года назад

This is the best one of seen.

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Thanks!

@MrHws5mp 2 года назад

That's about the fourth time I've heard of F-15 pilots getting waxed because they didn't use their radars properly.

@FireAngelOfLondon 2 года назад

Yeah, that's why such exercises are so valuable, you can learn what being cocky can do for you in an environment where it doesn't get you killed.

@toomanyuserids 2 года назад

Almost like they needed a GIB.

@MrHws5mp 2 года назад

@@toomanyuserids Major reason why the RAF didn't buy the F-15.

@DarkOmenX 2 года назад

Tomcat Tracking 24 shooting 6 ;) excellent interview loved every bit of it. All I can say I envy guys like that :)

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Great to hear you enjoyed it.

@EdD-ym6le 2 года назад

You ask some great questions that show preparation like about the culture . Good stuff Great interviews .

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Thank you for the kind words. Glad you enjoy the channel.

@EdD-ym6le 2 года назад

@@Aircrewinterview Do get me wrong , I still want to hear stories of jamming the throttles into Zone 5 afterburner 10' above the deck hahahaha

@SimDeck 2 года назад

Great guy. Would love to share a pint with him. Full of energy and life.

@67tomcat 2 года назад

Thanks!

@JagdgeschwaderX 2 года назад

What a nice guy :)

@thefrecklepuny 2 года назад

Nice interview. Steamer seems like a fun chap.

@davidcouch007 2 года назад

Brilliant and informative interview.. Steamer is one character

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Thanks David. He is indeed.

@MostlyPennyCat 2 года назад

Oooh now, does a Shar look good and therefore fly good? Ooh. Now that's a question. I'd say that any Harrier looks purposeful, focused. As does an A-10. Harrier's the best CAS platform. Hands Down. And the Shar, even the old FRS1, certainly did a number on its enemies at sea. But I'm biased, I grew around them. To me, Fighter Bomber _means_ Harrier.

@taxus750 2 года назад

As he says, play to *your* strengths, not your opponent's.

@mktm1290 2 года назад

What a seriously cool, nice and interesting man! Really enjoyed that! Bet he is great to have a beer with

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Oh I can imagine!

@dougstitt1652 2 года назад

Look good in a dress lol

@georgesykes394 2 года назад

Top Notch!

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Thanks George.

@2ZZGE100 2 года назад

Tornado was a lot more underpowered than the F-14A so not correct to say it was "similar" to F-14A. The performance difference was still quite big especially at higher altitude where the Tornado engines really suffered being tuned for low level. Also, the F-14's 60% lift came from the central "pancake" of the airframe. The official climb rate, for example of the F-14A was 3 times faster than that of the Tornado F3. Also, F-14A could re-gain energy a lot faster after pulling sustained high G turns. Not to mention, As Roy McIntyre in Tornado said, the F-14 in any version could turn a lot tighter and faster than Tornado.

@davidsmith8997 2 года назад

I think he was being polite. It was a great interview! Mike, a request is to ask how quickly dogfighting skills go away. So many pilots talk about how perishable they are. But do they go away in days, weeks, months? Do they come back? What about bombing or CAS skills? Just some suggestions (and yeah, I've asked in Q&As without good answers). Great stuff overall though, Steamer seems like a really nice guy.

@2ZZGE100 2 года назад

@@davidsmith8997 I totally got the same. He was being very nice and did not want to put down the Tornado especially with the interviewer being a huge fan of it (national pride as well). Don't get me wrong, Tornado was fantastic down low through terrain for air-to-ground. It would scream and go very fast down low for the mission it was created for (much like the F-111), but the performance envelope for F-14A was far from being "similar". Not even close.

@toomanyuserids 2 года назад

The tornado much more lacking in power but the F-14 tf30s needed more care in control. The B/D a different story.

@2ZZGE100 2 года назад

@@toomanyuserids That is correct. Though, pilots were trained to avoid causing it as much as possible.

@toomanyuserids 2 года назад

@@2ZZGE100 it is hard to imagine anything that will go NOE like the Vark Imagine that airframe with F110 engines and modern electronics...and crews without barf reflexes...

@pongokamerat8601 2 года назад

31:28 Lynx helicopter 216 knots 😉

@Machlooper 2 года назад

Excellent interview Mike 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Thank you!

@aviovintage 2 года назад

Absolutely great stuff. Thanks so much. I can imagine that jets like the Tornado and Tomcat had a character that perhaps is lacking in some of the latest iterations of fighter jets. The same way an oldtimer still appeals in ways a modern car can't. This is how I interpreted his comment about the Super Hornet at the end, 39:40, "nice little jet" 😂.

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Great to hear! Ha yeah I found that funny too!

@thesteveruss 2 года назад

F14 and Tornado ... the 2 most badass looking jets ever ...

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Damn straight.

@paulprigge1209 Год назад

The sexiest is Vietnam era. Those just don’t look down right mean almost. Lol!

@glhx2112 2 года назад

Man, what kind of trouble to you have to get into to go from The F-14 to the Tornado F-3 ? Yikes ! (Just kidding, hehehe) 😁

@paulmcmullen914 2 года назад

Oct ‘95 eh?! I was an F-14 RIO and had orders to 56 sqdn for late ‘95. Ended up getting changed shortly before leaving. Needs of the Navy…

@oktawiuszbrulinski128 2 года назад

Great interview dude !

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Cheers!

@TeaVR 2 года назад

Great guy. Great interview. Thoroughly enjoyed that. Thank you

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Thanks Dav.

@toomanyuserids 2 года назад

First, look at engines. Mattered in the R2800 days as much as now.

@appstratum9747 2 года назад

Great interview. Thank you.

@Aircrewinterview 2 года назад

Thanks Rhys.

@fredizadro2958 2 года назад

The best aviation Channel of all tube..

@Scoobydcs 2 года назад

F18 out rates the tomcat?

@Markielee72 2 года назад

By "rates" do you mean turn rate? If so, then F-18 out turns F-14 all day, every day.

@Scoobydcs 2 года назад

@@Markielee72 yes I mean sustained turn rate, iv always thought it was the other way around. Cat out rates the hornet but the hornet is better radius fighter