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Friday, October 29, 2010
Muslum Tomcats
8 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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Smellin like Ape Shit, sure don't make ya Tarzan. The Collings foundation flys a 1968 F4, how does that affect national security? Ole Akhmed might be a little more scary if they'd put a "puking dog" or a "sundowner" on that tail. At least they didn't defile the last great dogfighter by hanging bombs on it.
Anymouse -
10/29/10, 7:28 PM
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Anonymous said...
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What great planes. Why did we stop flying them?
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10/30/10, 2:36 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Anonyous @ 2:36 AM:
Unfortunately, all great things have a life span. The F-14 had reached a time when it required 10 hours of maintenance for each hour of flight time, and reliability had dropped to the point that 100% backup had to be scheduled--if a mission required two aircraft, four had to be scheduled to allow for last minute failures.
Great plane, great memories.
Southern Hairy Nosed Womabat. -
10/30/10, 7:05 AM
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Anonymous said...
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They were just coming into the fleet when I was sailing...
I understand they are being fed to the shredder at Davis-Monthan to avoid anything of value going to Persia. I wish they wouldn't do that. We have Phantoms galore to put on posts, but the Tomcat will be forgotten? Wrong.
tomw -
10/30/10, 8:44 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Dale 'Snort' Snodgrass tried to buy several to fly in the air show circut but was unsuccessful. Watching the F-4 fly again in Jax last weekend sure was cool. Too bad the Tomcat wont live on the same way.
Tim -
10/30/10, 9:13 AM
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BruHa said...
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Some notes:
Those Iranian f-14's are way too clean and show no signs of use. If they have two that are flyable I would be surprised, and I am not even going mention mission being capable. Notice during the vid no operating Iranian Tom cats or support equipment in the area. (No huffers, fire extinguishers or electrical. And the dead giveaway that these are static display birds.... No Drip Pans!
@ Tim It was good to see the F-4 in fly in Jax last weekend. The USAF heritage fly over (P-51 F-4 A-10 and F-16 )is always cool and gives one perspective of history and technology. Too bad we will never see the F-14 in the navy version. -
10/30/10, 10:17 AM
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Hell_Is_Like_Newark said...
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The Navy now lacks an air superiority fighter. The JSF is not going to fill the need. I am very worried that at some future battle, the Navy will send JSF against generation 4 fighters piloted by a well trained adversary.
We could see a slaughter not experienced since the opening air battle of Midway. -
10/31/10, 9:57 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Anybody else notice that all the Tomcats in that vid, even the one that was taxiing, had their refueling probes extended? Odd...
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10/31/10, 6:51 PM
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