Flying the Big Cat Interview | Tom “Steamer” Bau (Part 1) 

As a former Tornado pilot I really like all these interview... One of the best aviation Channel on RU-vid! Really great

The reason for no burner on the B and D Tomcats is actually in the NATOPS. If one engine's afterburner were to fail, the asymmetric thrust generated at such slow speed would be uncontrollable. This applied to runway takeoffs as well, not just on cat shots.

Spearfish, South Dakota?! The cradle of Naval Aviation! I’m a AF Pilot also from the Black Hills of South Dakota. Not too many of us out there. Great interview.

What a great interview I could listen to Tom’s stories for hours 👍

Great stuff! Looking forward to the F3 stories.

I swear, this is the premier channel for aviation.

Great interview!!! Love it!! Tomcats Forever!!! 😁👍

Great stuff. What a cool guy. Brilliant interview. I could listen to Tom all day. Thank you.

What a great interview. Tomcats!

My favourite jet, just look at it!!! Glorious machine

Great interview!

Wow, amazing and full of interesting details interview! Thanks a lot for so delicious material!

Thank you for the outstanding video

So, on DCS world I landed my f14B pretty fast one time, and I was definitely going too fast to stop at the end of the run way in time, and I locked up the brakes just like steamer talked about, and I did a full 360 and straightened it out perfectly. It was insane, it also slowed me down enough to stop me at the end of the runway 🤣

Amazing stories

Great Guy. 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I been reading up about the F-14 in preparation for this! :)

Great one . 70K feet Wow . That story of almost hitting the ocean could be a description of the Tomcat in " The Final Countdown " air to air scene . He needed those knots to pull up / turn the jet .

20-30ft from the water! Reminds me of the scene from 'The Final Countdown' which I believe was also a correction which was kept on film. Another great interview!

'Okie' said F-14A and F-14B performed very similarly below 5000 feet in dense/thick air since TF-030 engines loved a lot of air. The F-14A would go Mach 1.3+ on the deck and had to be pulled back. Funny thing is, 'Slammer' preferred A over the B and D as he flew all three. Slammers favorite thing was to take an F-14A and put a student pilot in an F-14D then completely dominating him.

I don't know if this will help but here goes, I worked as a Plan Captain as NAS Meridian, Ms. The tail codes are this, "A" is for NAS Meridian, "B" is for NAS Kingsville, Tx and "F" is for NAS Pensacola, Fl. When you showed a pic of a T-2 it had a F on the tail so it was from P-cola, you should have found a pic of a Buckeye that had a B on its tail.

Golden, Tomcat driver

Once me and my wingman were intercepted by a pairs of tomcat... We were tasked to Attack Saratoga carrier on the Tirrenian see... We were 540 kts at 150 ft... The tomcat came on our wings.. They rocked their wings... They accelerated and.... Climb away!!!!

Actually, you COULD NOT sweep the wings forward after Mach 0.8. The computer (CADC) disabled the capability at higher speeds or at higher altitude where the IMN is mapped to a lot slower ground speed.

You should of asked about the glove vanes the tomcat used have

How did the fireball go 20 miles?

Wonder if there is any brits that did exchange and flew the F14

I don't get it...the F14 can TACAN auto land, why do they keep talking as if it's impossible?

DCS programmers needs to watch this and fix the dang Phoenix missiles!!!!! They are useless in DCS right now

21:36. - What did he hit? It skips for me. I git 'Burger King Burger' .

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