F-14A Tomcat Operations | with David "Hey Joe" Parsons PART 2

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PART 2
David "Hey Joe" Parsons (former F-14 RIO) chats about the F-14A, Operation Desert Storm, his life after the Navy and his brilliant photography.
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Комментарии : 22

@ilejovcevski79 5 лет назад

He's such a great guy! Had a chance to chat with him a few times in the Tomcat association groups and he never shies away from providing good info on both the planes and the photos. I just adore his "shoe box collection" posts!

@KLRGT500KR 5 лет назад

Great interview. "We escorted ourelves". True for all of 36 years of F-14 service. F-14s only escorted other fighters/assets. A lot of F-14 sorties in Afghanistan in 2003 were escorting F-18s on strike missions. No one had to escort an F-14.

@Murderface-oq9lp 5 лет назад

i just love hearing this Gentleman talk, i could listen for hours. what a great life to have led. Thanks for sharing David

@simflier8298 5 лет назад

As usual, great interview! I wonder if he knows Charles "Heater" Heatley. He's an F14 driver who also loved photography. I still have his book, The Cutting Edge

@nickforster748 5 лет назад

Loved it! From one (former) “swing wing” operator to another! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@Dokkaebi707 5 лет назад

Really, cool to watch and listen to this interviews, keep it up!

@simonrichardson5077 5 лет назад

Superb work guys,thank you

@TheDekker99 5 лет назад

Great interview Mike!👍🤘

@LRRPFco52 5 лет назад

Great interview. I'm interested to hear about VF-32 & other Tomcat squadron incidents in DS. There's one from the perspective of an E-3A AWACS operator who heard an overzealous Tomcat crew call Fox 1 on one of their own A-6Es before getting cleared by the E-2C controller.

@dannyotter7247 5 лет назад

Cracking vid - you gotta get him back for another :-)

@AvengerII 5 лет назад

Wow, you learn something new every day! I NEVER heard or read about the Tomcat TARPs missions in Desert Storm. All I know about TARPs is that the Tomcat was BETTER at tactical reconnaisance than the F-18 for sure! Even the Super Hornet isn't as good at this mission. The problem comes down to fuel economy and aerodynamics. The F-18 is HORRIBLY optimized for air-to-air except for slow airspeeds (which is why it's a very airshow demo plane). It's uneconomical at higher speeds and CANNOT match the Tomcat's speed and range with a tactical reconnaisance pod. The tests with the recon Hornets were disappointing -- higher-than-anticipated fuel burn and no ability to match the F-14's range, period. It's still true with the Super Hornet. The SHARP pod was supposed to replace TARPs -- it's specific to the F-18E/F -- but I think even digital cameras can't match wet film resolution yet. The main advantage with digital is instantaneous transmission to the aircraft carrier/fleet, the fact you can SKIP wet film processing. The problem there would be bandwith transmission, the size of data that can be transmitted and received from the recon plane. Everybody who has Internet knows hard-wired cable/fiber optics/direct connection STILL have faster speeds than wireless transmission. I don't bother to surf the web or do e-commerce in public because of how bad wireless generally is in public! The same limitations apply to transmission from recon planes and ESPECIALLY long-range space probes. That transmission limits the quality of photography you can receive.

@LRRPFco52 5 лет назад

F-35C has fused RF, thermal, and IR, high resolution imaging integral to the airframe, with farther radius than a 2-tank Tomcat w/ TARPS, linked via MADL, so instead of waiting to go back to the carrier, everything can be acted on in real-time. They automatically do comprehensive ISR in denied airspace, and can prosecute air dominance and DEAD simultaneously, while doing ISR collection. No need to screw around with SH pods as F-35C percolates into the Squadrons.

@scwhk1 5 лет назад

Film has more resolution than digital sensor is purely academic. There is no device that can read that much information from a piece of film. The digital sensor is more useful in practice.

@stijnvandamme76 6 месяцев назад

@@LRRPFco52 but can it get over the Target Area for High speed low level BDA runs when the enemy already knows you are coming?? Cause the Tomcat was A LOT faster than any F35 and you sure as hell need the speed of speed for such runs, hence why the Vigi was used in Nam for that job. You can't hide at altitude if there is cloud cover

@LRRPFco52 6 месяцев назад

@@stijnvandamme76 No need for low-level when you can do SAR with the AESA fused with thermal. The initial resolution with APG-81 was so good, they imaged hotels in Vegas with it down to individual windows and the signs being clearly readable from pretty breathtaking ranges. There were some White House-level Strategic TGTs of interest in CENTCOM with dedicated ISR assets searching for them to no avail. Some F-35s on an unrelated mission set accidentally found those targets just flying along minding their own business. We're way past 1960s-1980s RA-5C and RF-14A TARPS bird wet film limits. This is more like U-2 on steroids inside of a VLO airframe.