Grumman F-14 Tomcat 

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they restored F86 , A4, F4 phantom etc..... to flying conditions , in the future you can be sure to see a F 14 flying again.

@@lebaillidessavoies3889 Unfortunately not, except for those in museums they've all been shredded so Iran couldn't get them for spare parts.

@@davidfuller581 also it is not suited for modern warfare

I've been to at least 100 Airshows between my job as a Military Contractor, and just a enthusiast, and former pilot hobbyist, and I've always enjoyed the F-14 Demonstration. I can remember the Tomcat in full burners accidentally break the sound barrier a few time's, and hearing the double Boom. I loved seeing the Vapor bubble around the jet, and thinking how Bad Ass is this plane..😊 I can't get enough Tomcat documentaries. I've seen them all, and would love for someone in the Navy put together a demonstration team for this glorious Jet of the Cold War... 🛩

Iran still fly this

Forever.... ;)

Glad you enjoyed it

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I used to live in the mountains between NAS Miramar ( home of Top Gun at the time) and the Chocolat Mountains training range so I saw them all the time. Then I would go to work at NAS North Island and see them inside and out, radome to turkey feathers. Went out to Miramar on field service many times. Big buggers and cool as hell. Watching this I could almost smell it.

I believe that only the last fraction of them had the big GE, but not quite sure on all the stats

They were not ALL destroyed. There are still jets in museums. Pensacola NAS has a nice F-14D inside one of their buildings.

I’m sure he meant FLYING. They should have kept some flying.

One of the main reasons was Iran air force, they did want to make sure Iran never could get spares in the black market.

Dude....MW3. ..the only reason I got MW remastered is because I couldn't play MW3 on my XBOX one ......until they made MW3 backwards compatible :)

It's beautiful to see it up close.

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Why can’t someone make the F14 airworthiness ok ?

LoL!

If Guile was from Bawston Mass………

I caught that too. No back seat controls. Did they install them on the late D models maybe? Just a hypothesis.

@@johnp2110 I was (1973-1976) an Airborne sensor specialist (17Lima 20 L8) on the OV-1 Mohawk. A 2 seater with no flight controls in front of me. I was taught to fly the 2 engine turboprop using an autopilot assist on a console next to me in case the pilot was incapacitated. A large palm size knob for climbing and turning. no stick needed. With other controls in reach so I'm sure there are secondaries in the back for the RIO.

@@MatthewPettyST1300 That's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.

As an added note: In Viet Nam it was an occupational hazard being shot at . We were a Reconnaissance plane.We weren't taught how to land the plane. Just get it back over friendly space. Then use the Martin Baker ejection seats . I could if needed attach a mike cord to the pilots seat pan firing handle. My choice , I was told the OV-1 might do weird stuff when 1 side leaves way first.

​ @@MatthewPettyST1300 There are neither flight controls nor engine instrumentation in the rear cockpit. If the pilot can't fly the aircraft, it's time to get out.

There were only about 130 Tomcats ever built (or modified) that were powered by GE F110 engines. Like it or not, the vast majority of the planes built were A-models with the TF30s. The Iranians are STUCK with TF30s on the 9 or 10 planes they CAN keep in the air at any time. The F-14A was NOT a bad plane... that's a myth propagated mainly by fanboys of the F-16, F-18, and MiG-29. Sure, it had a tougher time flying against later-generation planes than the B and D model but guys flying F-14As DID beat -16s, -18s, and MiG-29s that could technically outfly the Tomcat -- on paper! The A-model falls short mainly in subsonic flight. When it gets close to Mach 1, the engines actually put out close to 28,000 pounds each which you don't read about in most books. That's why the plane well out-performed the F-4 Phantom once it got up to speed. Nobody's disputing, however, that the TF30 was more maintenance-intensive and less reliable than the F110... It's just the F110 made the aerodynamic qualities of the F-14 airframe a lot more apparent to people RIGHT away... The US Navy never funded a complete re-engining of the F-14 fleet because it has only so much money to cover the surface fleet, fleet air, submarines, the Marine Corps needs, etc. They also completely FUBAR'd the Tomcat program from the mid-1970s onward. Introducing the F-18 into the fleet only made things worse for the Tomcat because it diverted funding towards that program, too... and the McDonnell Douglas guys were better salesmen to Congress and the Navy than the Grumman guys were. I have my own opinions about which plane was better for the Navy long-term -- hint: it's NOT the F-18 Super Hornet for sure! -- but Grumman lost the political game in 1989. The A-12 contract was their final chance to stay in airframe manufacturing, period... It's why they're Northrop Grumman and NOT plain-old Grumman anymore.

AvengerII the tf 30 was never supposed to stay in the tomcat as long as it did. it was supposed to be used during testing and once the cat went to full production it was supposed to get the ge engine and rhe later upgrade to the 110 but i guess somebody in dc had some kickback money coming in so they kept the pos tf30. I'm absolutely convinced that if they had upgraded like they should've done, alot of lives and planes would've been saved!!! the TF 30 was garbage

@@razor75250 TF-030 were only an issue when you were maneuvering at very slow speeds. Essentially, using high angle of attack at very low airspeed to stabilize the nose and using throttle slamming from idle to afterburner and back to idle to control the plane's weight at very slow speeds due to lack of momentum. They were completely fine when there was lots of airflow at higher knots as they produced more and more thrust with lots of air coming through those huge intakes and the F-14A still had great energy addition rate at over 300 knots (and hence capability to pull 9+ G at close to Mach 1). That is why the F-14A demos with 'Snort' Snodgrass were so impressive. Also, the F-14A outperformed the F-4 Phantom everywhere regardless. Whether it was a dogfight or at high speeds. It simply was superior in every aspect and took only 15 seconds from going fully defensive to fully offensive despite having the TF-030. A lot of that was because of the airframe design superiority.

@@2ZZGE100 true, however the 110's had far less failures and maintenance issues. I was an airwing maintenance officer and I can tell you for certain that my stacks of write up was alot smaller for the 110 than the tf30!!!

@@2ZZGE100 also the 110's had a whole lot more giddy up than the PW!!!

The "Navy" didn't discontinue it... Dick Cheney killed it with a pen. And yes, with an AWACS or a Hawkeye up we could sanitize a lot of airspace.

Sad that she is gone. However the stress and abuse carrier aircraft take give them a finite lifespan. Even with referbs. I read a piece about a maintainer from a tomcat squadron. Apparently in the last 2-3 years of service, it was near impossible to keep the planes airworthy. They were breaking down left and right. Somewhere around 20-30 percent mission capable.

Foxbats were mach 3 . plus no aircraft can go at top speed while carrying fuel pods and external weapons

No, in zone 5 afterburner they are dumping pure fuel into the turbine. They would go through 300 GPM in that zone of afterburner from all the literature I have read. The F-14 didn't need zone 5 afterburner very often. They would cruise in military power and the F-18 had to light the cans to keep up.

Definitely not yiur every day grocery getter lol.

It was designed to drop bombs and ended it career carrying bombs

C'est pour ça qu'il n'a pas beaucoup de succès à l'exportation? Le Su-35 est meilleur à mon avis.

Yes, you are right

yep, a mig is a flying coffin.

Bullshit

Yes, go and check the Tomcat Vs Mig 25, Mig 23 and Mirage F1 rate during Iran Iraq war.

Not gona argue, but is you hotdog as small as a Mig range… just asking, and whats the turn radius, so to say cornering/angle speed, you must know allot about airplanes amd their capabilities… pardon my french…