It looks great from all angles but I personally think the best angles would be near the front or the back while about level with the aircraft, wings in either position.

Love to see fly

Most beautiful nose/canopy section ever designed in the history of aviation. The big cat was one sexy bird for sure.

WORD!!

Front or rear

Yeah I remember the F-14 had quit the rumble at air shows. Lower and deeper than other fighters. You felt it in the chest. What a crowd pleaser!

Stepdad trained at 101 then moved to vf14 tophatters during Kosovo then went to vf 213 for remainder of his f14 career. Used to fly over our house in Foxfire neighborhood almost daily.

My mom and dad worked at G.E. and both their generators. My mom was a wire connector and my dad was an inspector. Then I married a sailor who worked on their guns . Kinda funny

would be no problem to place it in that radar-dome maybe 2 at same time :)

Here's an article about that for you to have wet dreams about www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29653/this-is-what-grummans-proposed-f-14-super-tomcat-21-would-have-actually-looked-like :D

Too bad certain people pushed the shitaptor and trashning. (22&35). The Cat can take both of those new poss

@@dragonalpha9894 the 22 is good the 35 is a pile a of trash

Can you imagine it being redone as a stealth aircraft?

I'll second that and im from England. Amazing jet

I recall reading however that at the end of their operational lives, it cost 60 man hours of maintenance to allow them to fly for 1 hour. Still the most beautiful aircraft ever.

They had too. The old birds were worn out and had astronomical maintenance time and cost.

@@michaelritchie5303 You would be correct. Tomcat was a maintenance hog, even when they were fairly new. Amazing aircraft, though. Never been anything like it before or since.

@@michaelritchie5303 That is fact. The Tomcats were very High Maintenance Aircraft. And a Bitch to Trap on Deck.

Lisa Newman Nope, won't happen. We intentionally made spare parts nearly impossible to come by for this aircraft.

Sadly no. F-14s were ground-up so that the Iranians could not get any spare parts on the black market. A terrible shame.

Someone could always buy a cat or two from the Iranians...

That was dick Chaney being a dick to the navy and nation to force them to buy the E/F Hornet

@@mtumeumrani376 Well they only have 5 that are flight worthy right now.

Hi, earlier you mentioned that you flew the tomcat, and above you mention that it can be unforgiving, surely it was better than earlier creations such as the phantom or voodoo which could depart controlled flight easily. At which points on the envelope could it be unforgiving?

There were a few maneuvers "forbidden". Most would have no airshow applicability(Can't launch an AIM 9 with flaps/slats/gear, no prolonged Og with radical throttle angle changes etc...) but in this arena, no rolling maneuvers greater than 360deg(in other words you won't see an F14 doing multiple rolls) and no F111 dump and burns.

@@TakeDeadAim why no multiple rolls in the f-14?

He mentions at one point going 700mph. Supersonic is only about 70mph more than that. They definitely hit Mach 1 a time or two during demonstrations.

And literally right after that part you mention(9:45) it shows the tomcat screaming by with the telltale air disturbance around it and noise caused by traveling at transonic speed(mach1.0)

they don’t hit or exceed mach at airshows as the boom breaks windows etc.

He was very low energy when he pulled vertical.

yep, that's the D model.

likely size issues, it was a massive aircraft

We got rid of them because they are extremely expensive to maintain/ repair

Thanks. What is the tell that it’s a D?

Best part of the entire video.

AB Sound the heck does AB stand for may I ask pardon me please I'm not overly up to date on my internet acronyms :-/..!!

After Burner

F-14. Hughes AWG-9 Radar. Tracks 20 targets at better than 250 miles. Can shot down 6 at 200 miles.

Flying Battleship! My dad helped to build those beautiful jets - Grumman Engineering, Grumman Quality, Top Quality Materials. Just ask the pilots who flew them!

The F-14 B/D with the upgraded GE-110 engines has a total thrust of 60,000 lbs from the two GE-110 engines (42,000 lbs for the older F-14A with the TF-030 Pratt and Whitney engines) while the F-16 has only 29,000 lbs from the one engine so the F-14 B/D had superior thrust to weight ratio. The F-14 B/D would out-accelerate the F-16 going vertical up because of lower wing loading. The F-14 B/D variant with two GE-110 engines had a climb rate of 50,000+ feet per minute (older F-14A with the TF-030 engines had 40,,000 feet per minute). It had a better than 1:1 thrust to weight ratio. It could accelerate faster vertically up than an F-16 because it has much less wing loading because of the larger wing surfaces. Most importantly, the F-14 never lost a battle in its 32 years while the F-16 has lost many battles in its service.

Rate of climb was 30,000 feet a minute for the Tomcat.

Great, Mattik. Were you a Wolfpack?

Yes, it was never defeated in a dog fight in its 30 years of service.

XA standing for... ?

Dont know if this guy is legit

Bull....shit!

I already handed them my money...bouncing up and down waiting for release now!