@@shawnomack45 Still can. Hell, I told myself if ever win the lottery, I would fly to Iran purchase one, bring it back to the US, refit it with better engines and updated avionics and find a giddy navy pilot to fly it in airshows all over the US, as long as my ass gets to ride in the back and learn to fly it. I seriously would love an F14 on the airshow circuit that goes around America.
Used to go to the airshow at Andrews AFB every year. Always, ALWAYS made sure I was on the flight line for the Tomcat demo. When he hit the burners, you could feel it in your chest!
Sometimes you could feel it on your skin. When I went to shows in FL as a kid, when the F14 would bank away from the crowd on burner, you could absolutely feel a heat wave LOL. Surreal.
My uncle was a trainer for us navy on the f14-f18 for many years while stationed at Cecil field. I'm one of the few as a teenager who got to try out a simulator and go up in the live f18. An awesome experience to say the least
The F-18 was a must have addition to the Naval airwing, but it was a collosal mistake retiring the F-14 completely. They should have followed the upgrade path for it. The F-14 Super Tomcat 21. There were even plans for a low observable F-22 like version of the Super Tomcat. www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29653/this-is-what-grummans-proposed-f-14-super-tomcat-21-would-have-actually-looked-like
The 18 was a design with many compromises. The 14 was an overkill platform to make anyone think twice about hostile intentions. It was the perfect deterrent and definitely had the teeth and claws to back it up.
There was a lot of risk moving forward with ST-21, since the Navy already had 3 decades of maintenance records on the F-14. Maintenance Man Hours Per Flight Hour were in the 40-72 region, depending on year. Baby Hornet was 11-20 for most of its career, now climbing the end of the bathtub graph late in life before retirement. Even with all the proposed improvements to the airframe and addition of DFLCS, the ST-21 was still going to have a complicated mechanical flight control system with augmentation, 2 crew cockpits with lots of displays, a huge mechanically-steered Radar, and the requirement to re-do weapons separation and design work for the wing glove and tunnel stations. During AIM-120 testing at Point Mugu and Pax River on the F-14D, they found aerodynamic problems with the glove stations during separation, which is why AIM-120 never got fielded on the F-14B/D in the fleet. There's a very solid argument to be made that they could still expect at least 40 MMH/FH to remain a relative constant with ST-21, with a risk of even worse numbers like the F-14A/B/D had. With Legacy Hornet, they knew they had a fairly predictable 11-20hr MMH/FH fleet expectation, which allowed 2-3x the sortie generation compared with the F-14. The same promises of reduced MMH/FH were made for the Super Hornets, but with a known mixed fleet of mostly single seat F/A-18E models, with a balance of 2-seat Fs. This would reduce manning requirements in the budget as well. The biggest thing they sacrificed was the opportunity to get an 800-1100nm radius multirole fighter, though the Super Hornet definitely brought more legs than the Baby Hornet. I think the Navy was tired of maintaining the Tomcat, and didn't want to continue with a bird that would most likely duplicate its legacy model hangar queen reputation. Super Hornets still are tough to maintain. F-35C is the first multimission fighter in USN inventory to maintain a consistent 6-9 MMH/FH, (which is phenomenal), while also bringing back an 800nm+ radius fighter back to the deck since the retirement of the A-6E and A-7E.
@@LRRPFco52 yeah it's certainly something that needed to happen. Sweep wings are awesome but if it can't be cost effective in today's rapidly advancing world then it doesn't have a place. I say that as a huge fan of the F-14. I'm pretty excited to see what becomes of NGAD and Japan reportedly resurrecting the YF23 concept.. I say excited, purely in the sense that I love aviation and appreciate aero design a lot... And Not because that I wanna see it ushered into service because of the looming threat of war.. even if that's objectively the reason for it.
I was blessed to have seen one at the Chicago Air & Water Show as a teen. It was the most beautiful, impressive, maneuverable, and loudest aircraft of the show! God I wish she were still in service today. Nothing could match it. Nothing. 🇺🇸💯
The Tomcat is the greatest combat aircraft ever built. The sound is so distinctive and glorious. Its power and maneuverability is unmatched. She deserves to still be flying for the U.S. Navy today. Thank you for sharing this with us. 🇺🇸👍💯
Progress as it is. The F-14 is probably the best at weapons loads for a fighter. The B-1 as a bomber holds that distinction, not the B-52. The B-1 will more than likely will become a multi role fighter/bomber. Can you imagine a B-1 with 72,000 pounds of AMRAMM 120? That's like 75 missiles.
It truly was and would still be the baddest bird in the sky when you consider the whole pkg. Mach 2.3, variable geometry configuration, high & low speed capabilities, 30 TONS of thrust, powerful AWG-9 radar could track 24 bogies simultaneously, from 50 to 80,000 ft. and fire on 6 bandits, also simultaneously, with a choice of AIM-7 Sparrows, AIM-9 Sidewinders, or the yet-to-be-matched 100 mi. fire-n-forget range of the AIM-54C Phoenix. As impressive as the Tomcat's performance was, though, it was too labor-intensive. It required 4 maintenance hours for every single hour of flight time, far less efficient than the near hour-per-hour ease of the Hornet. Too bad. So sad.
@@stephenobrien1505 F-14 MMHPFH was 40-72, not 4. 4 hours would have been a dream for Tomcats. There have been some years where F-35A has demonstrated 4.1 MMHPFH average. F-14 couldn't even get down to 35hrs. F-16 was the lowest at 10-14 until F-35A came along. Even the STOVL F-35B is lower than the F-16, which is a testament to how well JSF took maintainability into account.
@@LRRPFco52 Im sorry. I'm not sure I understand your reply. When you say "40-72" does that mean 40 MMH for every 72 FH? That seems like a pretty respectable record, so I think I need a little more detail. Do you mind?...
@@LRRPFco52 Do you mean 40-72 MMH for every single FH?!! That's a pitiful record!! So the F-16 needs 10-16 MMH for every FH? Have I got that right? And the F-35 JSF is 4 to 1? Does that include the Navy version? One would think the reinforced landing gear and the rigors of cyclic ops would jack that figure up some.
Because it was a badass warbird that most things in the sky could not touch. It's power, speed, utility and radar array made it an apex predator in the sky.
I was probably there. I remember watching Dale "Snort" Snodgrass (RIP) coming in from the right, doing his trademark loooow high speed pass in the Tomcat during that era. The Harrier jump jet Demo. Fat Albert JATO takeoff. AH-64 demo rising up out of the trees show center. The night show with the jumpers with glow sticks on their bodies descending on the field. A FF Eagle doing an early morning sneak pass through the cool September air.
I was an F-14 pilot in Oceana in the 80s, this video brings back memories. But there's no reason to bring the airplane back, it is old technology. We don't need a variable sweep wing anymore, too complicated with the new computerized living wing of the cat 5 fighters.
If only I had been born in an earlier age. I remember loving the tomcat after seeing it on topgun. Then I became obsessed after buying a game called Jet fighter 4 and the tom cat was on it. I even wrote about it for school. 😔 then I learned it was retired in 2006 and was extremely upset about it. F18s are better at turning sure. But as far as speed, range, and beauty the tomcat stands alone! Playing with it on DCS world really makes me obsessed all over again and Im 28 now lol.
I feel you on all that. The f16 was always my fav as a kid. When I was in 3rd grade a pilot did a “big brother” thing and picked me. He’d take me to see his jet the f16 and I’d get to sit in it. Then after that stage in life I seen the f14. And as a adult that jet is amazing. The swept wings. The presents of it was just all around bad ass.
Can confirm, it is absolutely beautiful on DCS, I even use the same paint job as the tomcat in this video ^ the flight model is damn near 1:1, as is pretty much everything else- I’ve got about 200 hours altogether in the tomcat (on dcs of course lol) and air shows are some of my favorite things of all time!
The way the flames look shooting out the engines on Shockwave reminds me of the mach cones in the exhaust of the engines on the now long since retired space shuttles.
Would be nice if they would bring a tomcat back but they're not going to do that that is one badass fighter jets ever it's still in service with Iran I believe they have 79 of them they've been flying them since the 70s
Most of the Tomcats the Iranians have are just sitting on the deck. No parts and they were never given the AWG-9 Weapon System either. Completely different bird compared to the F-14D in this. video.
Beautiful plane these were my favourites as a kid f14 Tomcat , f4 Phantom , f104 Starfighter , English electric Lightning, Vulcan and the Harrier all had unique sounds .
My former air base with VF-41 along side VF-84 and training squadron VF-101... didn't have airshows at that time.... bummer. Would have been out at see anyway...oh well....I miss that bird. Good to see it finally received an upgrade on the old TF-30 engine...🤳😎
We lost one of the most lethal war birds of the country. A truck just out ran a f18. Imo whetevere the f14 went the enemy had to worry about to Tomcats abilitys. The globe knew the TOMCATS power! 🐯 ANY WHERE, ANYTIME! That was TRUE!
@@jungle486 , umm..no. just give her updated avionics, helmet linked weapon systems and some stealth ability and she'll once again be the most feared aircraft in the world.
The F-14D top speed is just over mach 2. or 1544 mph depending on the inlet ramps. The Tomcat has reached 2.4 but the Navy doesn't want their aircraft going faster than mach 1.6 for longer periods of time. But it's nice to know if you have to leave the bad guys in a hurry. The F-18 super hornet top speed is mach 1.8 or 1190 mph
Many Tomcat pilots did Mach 2.3+ at 70,000 feet (Watch 'Okie' interview). That was with payload on it. F-18 clean could hit Mach 1.6, but with the external mounting points for air-to-ground, it has very high drag. With bombs and missiles, it can barely do Mach 1.3.
Charlie Brown, a Vietnam-era combat pilot who flew Bearcats and two years in Phantom IIs, was part of the F-14 design team as well as an experimental test pilot with Grumman. “The [Navy] specs called for Mach 2.34. We actually tested the airplane for Mach 2.5. I flew it 2.5 a couple times. When you fly a Phantom, it’s built for 2.0, but when you fly that fast you know it. It’s like sitting on a beach ball; you don’t know which way it’ll go, it’s so sensitive. In a F-14 it’s like sitting in a Cadillac. It’s solid. You don’t realize you’re going that fast." This from a 2004 article in Global Security: (retired Air Force Col. Everest Riccioni, who helped develop the Air Force strategy for the Eagle and the Raptor) "The Air Force boasted that the F-15 tested for Mach 2.5 - 21/2 times the speed of sound." To make the speed, Riccioni said, the Air Force stripped the plane down of just about anything it would need for real combat. "It was a stunt," he said.
And ? This is irrelevant for 95 to 100% of combat missions. Except pure flight testing for aerodynamics design and engine test, those mach 2+ top speed means absolutely nothing.
Such a truly wonderful aircraft. Such a truly fucked over aircraft that had to fight for its life before it even flew. A huge example how little most politicians actually care about or safety and lethality. It didn't deserve its final fate. A testament to how truly badass it was is the fact the A model shouldn't have even existed. It was basically the EMD version the B is about what the A should have really been. The updates and upgrades denied to it. Imagine if it didn't have a ton of politicians gunning for it, and it was built as intended as well as modded and upgraded. I was an HT on the Kitty Hawk and we had VF-154 aboard flying ancient A models but man did they make it look good. I'm the only HT, an engineer mind you who spends most of our working hours below the waterline. The only business I would even have to lay hands on an F-14 in a work capacity would be if one was on fire. One of 154's Cats had it's cannon go out. The large electrical cable that connected it, sent power and signals had broken. It was an original part and the only way to get another one was to salvage one. They had a gunex in a few days and would be DQ'd if they didn't have all birds up. The squadron skipper was desperate yet creative. He knew our quality of work and had seen my work numerous times. He asked me if I really wanted to test myself and do something never done before and being it was 2002 most likely never done again. Super long story short I made a cage out of several braze rods bent it around the cable attached a rose bud tip and melted the cage around the cable. Damn thing actually worked and I didn't catch the plane on fire. Also 154 won the exercise. Just for fun imagine that it was decided the Grumman 303F would be selected over Mcdonnells design and became the F-15..... One final edit, if you don't have a good solid reason to not hate the F-18 get a copy of the book The Pentagon Paradox.
When I was little, I mainly saw props when looking up at the sky but rarely any jets. The most common jets that I saw was actually the F-14 and F/A-18 rather any civilian jet! How about that now!😃
Travis Pastrana and his cronies should be on either side of the runway holding an arresting cable and on their bikes. Of course a jet tail hook grabs the cable, which then propels them up and over a couple of ramps and perform back flips. That's how you end a show!
to tell the truth I don"t know where or if the F-18 has speed brakes,but I did see the landing gear lowered. He must have did a touch and go. Will say he was going pretty slow after takng off again.
Sorry, I was referring to the Tomcat's speed brakes. They're supposed to be absolutely flush when not in use, including taxiing. That would have been a down gripe back in the day for either a mechanical or hydraulic failure.
0:37 I see what you mean.... but I think its not a mechanical or hydraulic failure, just don't think it was fully retracted when last shut down, I'm not sure, but it looks like its fully retracted when they pass after landing and wave the flag 22:56
There's no jet that has more stage presence than the F14. Capabilities wise the F14 is still unmatched in the navy. F22 would own it, but that owns everything!
F/A-18A++ exceeds most of the Tomcat's capabilities, but still lacks the range. Super Hornet Block II is a different animal with comparable range and a higher A2A weapon payload, with a vastly-superior Radar and sensor suite. F-35C exceeds the F-14 across the board in all of the important metrics: Combat radius/CAP Payload Sensors Maintainability Safety Bring-back Trap rate on the boat
@@LRRPFco52 when the comment was made F35s hadnt fully hit the fleet, yes F35 OWNS everything. Time of retirement and switch to super hornets the tomcat was superior and the sensor sweet comparable. Tomcat still has better out right speed, weapons payload capacity, and range. Navy needs a fleet defense aircraft, super hornet isn’t it. If it was still active the Tomcat would’ve received most of the upgrades the Rhino received. The people who okd the super hornet project against the Tomcat ASSumed it was legacy based and thought they’d save costs. Dumb. At the time of retirement the real F14Ds still smelled new. Huge waste.
@@TheUsmc0802 F-35C has been flying since 2010. Fleet IOC was 2019 after years of carrier quals, air wing integration, Fighter Weapons School course curriculum built for it, and squadrons populated. F-14Ds had been built from March of 1990 to July 1992, so upon retirement in 2006, they had plenty of cockpit stank accumulated in them. They certainly were retired early though, but A/B models had a lot of hours on airframes and were ready for retirement. Many A models had already been mothballed by that time. I miss them like anyone else, but can also see the big picture from mx perspective. Tomcat gave us 32 years of operational service, which was pretty typical compared with the F-4, A-6, A-7, and A-4. Change is hard and painful.
Iranian air force first contry after Americans can overhaul and upgraded F14. and we capability new radar ( bina )and long range air to air missiles( Fakor 90 )for Iranian tom cats
Well technically the Air Farce has the coolest pilots. Uncle Sam's Navy has the coolest aviators. Aviators are a few rungs above pilots, at the very top of the stick-n-rudder evolutionary ladder.
What a sex aircraft that f14 they should of destroyed the aircraft that got into enemies hands instead of destroying the ones they had so they could not get parts. The f14 Tomcat still could be great and have a role today if they would of kept producing them.
Where the commentator says the engines are going through 300 gals a minute in full reheat most of the tomcats display is in reheat (afterburner) how much fuel does it take off with if that's true it must be heavy
Now if you want to get technical, that hornet would be able to beat shockwave with ease. The hornt just wasnt at its full potential. That race would have been a cake walk for the hornet.
The f18 beating a tomcat ? 😂😂😂😂 your joking right . The tomcat for starters is about 600knots faster . The hornet can’t sustain unlimited vertical out of a turn like a f14 .
【F-14A vs Shock Wave】
F-14A Demo→F-14A vs Shock Wave Race Oceana 1999
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My Dad was head of production support for the F14 tomcat. It was his pride and joy, rip dad.
Of cource its his pride, the F-14 is maybe the most legendary fighter ever
Man that's awesome. I fucking miss watching that thing so bad. I feel like going to Iran just to see one fly lol
@@shawnomack45 Still can. Hell, I told myself if ever win the lottery, I would fly to Iran purchase one, bring it back to the US, refit it with better engines and updated avionics and find a giddy navy pilot to fly it in airshows all over the US, as long as my ass gets to ride in the back and learn to fly it. I seriously would love an F14 on the airshow circuit that goes around America.
@@manofchaitea6904❤ they should bring the tomcat back
I will say it forever!!! F14 the most beautiful and coolest plane ever built...
Amen to that. Too bad i've never seen one flying IRL.
The tornado has to come a close second.
In 1970 years !!
Remember other planes... out of MiG-25...
1000% agree!!
Easilly the most beautifull, the Yf22 and F35 don't even come close. The only one that comes close is the F15, but Tomcats win hands down.
I was in VF11 at the time of this recording, worked the air shows as well. This aircraft was a wild animal in comparison to today's meek flight deck.
Used to go to the airshow at Andrews AFB every year. Always, ALWAYS made sure I was on the flight line for the Tomcat demo. When he hit the burners, you could feel it in your chest!
Sometimes you could feel it on your skin. When I went to shows in FL as a kid, when the F14 would bank away from the crowd on burner, you could absolutely feel a heat wave LOL. Surreal.
You could feel it through the ship when one went to burner spooling up for a catshot.
Andrews had some great Airshows. I only ever got to see the F-14 doing a morning fly by (shortly after 9/11).
It sounded incredible. What a beautiful plane it was.
god thats a beautiful plane..(F-14)
The f14 with its wings swept is the most bad ass beautiful looking jet ever created. I also love the f16.
They should make a f14-f22 hybrid with sweep wings that will look awesome!! RIP MY LOVELY TOMCAT, GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN!!
Screaming F15 Eagle too.
The F-22 is the worlds best fighter thou.
That would be a terrible plane.
The F-14 Tomcat is my all time Favorite Jet. Love this plane!! Next would probably be the SR-71 Blackbird. But always will love this jet the most.
I will never forgive myself for not joining the Navy and flying that beautiful plane :o(
My uncle was a trainer for us navy on the f14-f18 for many years while stationed at Cecil field. I'm one of the few as a teenager who got to try out a simulator and go up in the live f18. An awesome experience to say the least
The F-18 was a must have addition to the Naval airwing, but it was a collosal mistake retiring the F-14 completely. They should have followed the upgrade path for it. The F-14 Super Tomcat 21. There were even plans for a low observable F-22 like version of the Super Tomcat. www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29653/this-is-what-grummans-proposed-f-14-super-tomcat-21-would-have-actually-looked-like
It was done to weaken our military and strengthen China.
The 18 was a design with many compromises.
The 14 was an overkill platform to make anyone think twice about hostile intentions.
It was the perfect deterrent and definitely had the teeth and claws to back it up.
There was a lot of risk moving forward with ST-21, since the Navy already had 3 decades of maintenance records on the F-14. Maintenance Man Hours Per Flight Hour were in the 40-72 region, depending on year. Baby Hornet was 11-20 for most of its career, now climbing the end of the bathtub graph late in life before retirement.
Even with all the proposed improvements to the airframe and addition of DFLCS, the ST-21 was still going to have a complicated mechanical flight control system with augmentation, 2 crew cockpits with lots of displays, a huge mechanically-steered Radar, and the requirement to re-do weapons separation and design work for the wing glove and tunnel stations.
During AIM-120 testing at Point Mugu and Pax River on the F-14D, they found aerodynamic problems with the glove stations during separation, which is why AIM-120 never got fielded on the F-14B/D in the fleet.
There's a very solid argument to be made that they could still expect at least 40 MMH/FH to remain a relative constant with ST-21, with a risk of even worse numbers like the F-14A/B/D had.
With Legacy Hornet, they knew they had a fairly predictable 11-20hr MMH/FH fleet expectation, which allowed 2-3x the sortie generation compared with the F-14.
The same promises of reduced MMH/FH were made for the Super Hornets, but with a known mixed fleet of mostly single seat F/A-18E models, with a balance of 2-seat Fs.
This would reduce manning requirements in the budget as well.
The biggest thing they sacrificed was the opportunity to get an 800-1100nm radius multirole fighter, though the Super Hornet definitely brought more legs than the Baby Hornet.
I think the Navy was tired of maintaining the Tomcat, and didn't want to continue with a bird that would most likely duplicate its legacy model hangar queen reputation.
Super Hornets still are tough to maintain. F-35C is the first multimission fighter in USN inventory to maintain a consistent 6-9 MMH/FH, (which is phenomenal), while also bringing back an 800nm+ radius fighter back to the deck since the retirement of the A-6E and A-7E.
@@LRRPFco52 yeah it's certainly something that needed to happen.
Sweep wings are awesome but if it can't be cost effective in today's rapidly advancing world then it doesn't have a place.
I say that as a huge fan of the F-14.
I'm pretty excited to see what becomes of NGAD and Japan reportedly resurrecting the YF23 concept..
I say excited, purely in the sense that I love aviation and appreciate aero design a lot... And Not because that I wanna see it ushered into service because of the looming threat of war.. even if that's objectively the reason for it.
That thing is a BEAST
Loved the F14 since "Top Gun" but never actually seen one fly. - (missed a classic) 😭
Love that fly past at 13:55 and as for theat climb. - (WOW)
They are impressive. but glad I worked on the 18's then the 14's
I was blessed to have seen one at the Chicago Air & Water Show as a teen. It was the most beautiful, impressive, maneuverable, and loudest aircraft of the show! God I wish she were still in service today. Nothing could match it. Nothing. 🇺🇸💯
Beautiful bird but deably but ca turn on a dime .
I was fortunate enough to see all the Grumman cats fly in formation.
The Tomcat is the greatest combat aircraft ever built. The sound is so distinctive and glorious. Its power and maneuverability is unmatched. She deserves to still be flying for the U.S. Navy today. Thank you for sharing this with us. 🇺🇸👍💯
Progress as it is. The F-14 is probably the best at weapons loads for a fighter. The B-1 as a bomber holds that distinction, not the B-52. The B-1 will more than likely will become a multi role fighter/bomber. Can you imagine a B-1 with 72,000 pounds of AMRAMM 120? That's like 75 missiles.
It truly was and would still be the baddest bird in the sky when you consider the whole pkg. Mach 2.3, variable geometry configuration, high & low speed capabilities, 30 TONS of thrust, powerful AWG-9 radar could track 24 bogies simultaneously, from 50 to 80,000 ft. and fire on 6 bandits, also simultaneously, with a choice of AIM-7 Sparrows, AIM-9 Sidewinders, or the yet-to-be-matched 100 mi. fire-n-forget range of the AIM-54C Phoenix.
As impressive as the Tomcat's performance was, though, it was too labor-intensive. It required 4 maintenance hours for every single hour of flight time, far less efficient than the near hour-per-hour ease of the Hornet.
Too bad. So sad.
@@stephenobrien1505 F-14 MMHPFH was 40-72, not 4. 4 hours would have been a dream for Tomcats.
There have been some years where F-35A has demonstrated 4.1 MMHPFH average. F-14 couldn't even get down to 35hrs.
F-16 was the lowest at 10-14 until F-35A came along. Even the STOVL F-35B is lower than the F-16, which is a testament to how well JSF took maintainability into account.
@@LRRPFco52 Im sorry. I'm not sure I understand your reply. When you say "40-72" does that mean 40 MMH for every 72 FH? That seems like a pretty respectable record, so I think I need a little more detail. Do you mind?...
@@LRRPFco52 Do you mean 40-72 MMH for every single FH?!! That's a pitiful record!!
So the F-16 needs 10-16 MMH for every FH? Have I got that right? And the F-35 JSF is 4 to 1? Does that include the Navy version? One would think the reinforced landing gear and the rigors of cyclic ops would jack that figure up some.
Diamond Tomcat performance!!! Such a perfect flight ))) Love F-14D and VF-101 "Grim Reapers" tail markings!
Awesome demo and another great video of the F-14 from you. Thanks for sharing! :)
What’s about F14 has fans more that other fighter jets? It’s pretty and it’s cool specially when you see the swept wings and lots of capabilities
Maybe the movie..??? That’s my reason for loving this jet
Guessing the 2 80s movies the f14 starred in gave it the cult legend status. Personally I think the f4 phantom is the coolest thing to burn jet fuel.
Because it was a badass warbird that most things in the sky could not touch. It's power, speed, utility and radar array made it an apex predator in the sky.
@@pikvlieg That baloney w Tom Cruise is nothing compared to reality.
I saw the F-14 Tomcat in The Final Countdown Movie from 1980...and was hooked, also saw it fly in person and the High on Kalamazoo Air Show.
I will always love the Tomcat..however, I spent 10 years around the Hornet...I miss my Navy Days !!!!
Hands down the sexiest plane ever built!!!
I was probably there. I remember watching Dale "Snort" Snodgrass (RIP) coming in from the right, doing his trademark loooow high speed pass in the Tomcat during that era. The Harrier jump jet Demo. Fat Albert JATO takeoff. AH-64 demo rising up out of the trees show center. The night show with the jumpers with glow sticks on their bodies descending on the field. A FF Eagle doing an early morning sneak pass through the cool September air.
Graceful, for such a big Jet...!!!!
Grumman, Vought & McDonnell/Douglas. Pretty Nifty. Miss you, Big Fighter. Fly Navy!
I was an F-14 pilot in Oceana in the 80s, this video brings back memories. But there's no reason to bring the airplane back, it is old technology. We don't need a variable sweep wing anymore, too complicated with the new computerized living wing of the cat 5 fighters.
Thanks for ur service sir. My son is currently in Oceana in training to fly the Superhornets
If only I had been born in an earlier age. I remember loving the tomcat after seeing it on topgun. Then I became obsessed after buying a game called Jet fighter 4 and the tom cat was on it. I even wrote about it for school. 😔 then I learned it was retired in 2006 and was extremely upset about it. F18s are better at turning sure. But as far as speed, range, and beauty the tomcat stands alone! Playing with it on DCS world really makes me obsessed all over again and Im 28 now lol.
I feel you on all that. The f16 was always my fav as a kid. When I was in 3rd grade a pilot did a “big brother” thing and picked me. He’d take me to see his jet the f16 and I’d get to sit in it. Then after that stage in life I seen the f14. And as a adult that jet is amazing. The swept wings. The presents of it was just all around bad ass.
Can confirm, it is absolutely beautiful on DCS, I even use the same paint job as the tomcat in this video ^ the flight model is damn near 1:1, as is pretty much everything else- I’ve got about 200 hours altogether in the tomcat (on dcs of course lol) and air shows are some of my favorite things of all time!
Miss the big cat!!
The way the flames look shooting out the engines on Shockwave reminds me of the mach cones in the exhaust of the engines on the now long since retired space shuttles.
Would be nice if they would bring a tomcat back but they're not going to do that that is one badass fighter jets ever it's still in service with Iran I believe they have 79 of them they've been flying them since the 70s
1 Tomcat is back to the air for the Top Gun: Maverick filming.
oshi rockingham nah, it was CGI
@@ktmjack1 www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26505/an-f-14-tomcat-has-returned-to-the-deck-of-an-operational-carrier-for-top-gun-2-production
Most of the Tomcats the Iranians have are just sitting on the deck. No parts and they were never given the AWG-9 Weapon System either. Completely different bird compared to the F-14D in this. video.
@@oshirockingham9655 yes as a set prop but show me footage of it flying..
I'm gonna hit the breaks, he'll fly right by!
You're gonna do WHAT?!?!?!😎
@@letsgobrandon8055 lol.
F-14 Bad Ass and Beautiful!!
🙏🏻❤️yeah, but can that truck go vertical?❤️🙏🏻
wing sweep while knife
wow
7:56
Yeah that was savage LOL
Tomcats just seemed to do things so much more effortlessly then even todays fighters do.
At the F-14D take off you could see clear a UFO sphere ! Did anybody notice that ?
Even the UFO guys love to watch Tomcats fly!
Beautiful plane these were my favourites as a kid f14 Tomcat , f4 Phantom , f104 Starfighter , English electric Lightning, Vulcan and the Harrier all had unique sounds .
The underpowered F-18 Hornet got smoked badly by the Shockwave truck.
My former air base with VF-41 along side VF-84 and training squadron VF-101... didn't have airshows at that time.... bummer. Would have been out at see anyway...oh well....I miss that bird. Good to see it finally received an upgrade on the old TF-30 engine...🤳😎
That was so fun to watch !! Thanks for posting 👍
Cue Cheap Trick’s “Mighty Wings” when Tomcat takes off!
We lost one of the most lethal war birds of the country. A truck just out ran a f18. Imo whetevere the f14 went the enemy had to worry about to Tomcats abilitys. The globe knew the TOMCATS power! 🐯 ANY WHERE, ANYTIME! That was TRUE!
Kool
Wasn't a Growler.
the 18 wasnt in burner and the truck had 3 jet engines full blast :T
They need to bring the F-14s back!!!
Would be a sitting duck in todays battlespace unfortunately.
@@jungle486 , umm..no. just give her updated avionics, helmet linked weapon systems and some stealth ability and she'll once again be the most feared aircraft in the world.
@@jonn443 So make a new aircraft?
Love that Hornet, and the Tomcat, Love both of these naval fighters!
Listen to those GE-F110 engines 6:47 MY GOD! Power.
I love that growl!
A completely stripped down F-14D must have been an absolute Monster! That one had all the latest Engines digital Display Etc....
Shockwave and the Tomcat… hard to believe 2 performances Ill never see ever again…
That plane is fucking awesome especially at night at the Carrier
I miss real airshows.
The F-14D top speed is just over mach 2. or 1544 mph depending on the inlet ramps. The Tomcat has reached 2.4 but the Navy doesn't want their aircraft going faster than mach 1.6 for longer periods of time. But it's nice to know if you have to leave the bad guys in a hurry.
The F-18 super hornet top speed is mach 1.8 or 1190 mph
Many Tomcat pilots did Mach 2.3+ at 70,000 feet (Watch 'Okie' interview). That was with payload on it. F-18 clean could hit Mach 1.6, but with the external mounting points for air-to-ground, it has very high drag. With bombs and missiles, it can barely do Mach 1.3.
Charlie Brown, a Vietnam-era combat pilot who flew Bearcats and two years in Phantom IIs, was part of the F-14 design team as well as an experimental test pilot with Grumman.
“The [Navy] specs called for Mach 2.34. We actually tested the airplane for Mach 2.5. I flew it 2.5 a couple times. When you fly a Phantom, it’s built for 2.0, but when you fly that fast you know it. It’s like sitting on a beach ball; you don’t know which way it’ll go, it’s so sensitive. In a F-14 it’s like sitting in a Cadillac. It’s solid. You don’t realize you’re going that fast."
This from a 2004 article in Global Security:
(retired Air Force Col. Everest Riccioni, who helped develop the Air Force strategy for the Eagle and the Raptor)
"The Air Force boasted that the F-15 tested for Mach 2.5 - 21/2 times the speed of sound."
To make the speed, Riccioni said, the Air Force stripped the plane down of just about anything it would need for real combat. "It was a stunt," he said.
And ? This is irrelevant for 95 to 100% of combat missions. Except pure flight testing for aerodynamics design and engine test, those mach 2+ top speed means absolutely nothing.
これは･･たまりませんねぇ、F-14ファンには👍
I seen this at a Airshow. Luv it.
This plane is the reason Russia started creating beautiful planes of their own. True
Such a truly wonderful aircraft. Such a truly fucked over aircraft that had to fight for its life before it even flew. A huge example how little most politicians actually care about or safety and lethality. It didn't deserve its final fate.
A testament to how truly badass it was is the fact the A model shouldn't have even existed. It was basically the EMD version the B is about what the A should have really been. The updates and upgrades denied to it. Imagine if it didn't have a ton of politicians gunning for it, and it was built as intended as well as modded and upgraded.
I was an HT on the Kitty Hawk and we had VF-154 aboard flying ancient A models but man did they make it look good. I'm the only HT, an engineer mind you who spends most of our working hours below the waterline. The only business I would even have to lay hands on an F-14 in a work capacity would be if one was on fire. One of 154's Cats had it's cannon go out. The large electrical cable that connected it, sent power and signals had broken. It was an original part and the only way to get another one was to salvage one. They had a gunex in a few days and would be DQ'd if they didn't have all birds up. The squadron skipper was desperate yet creative. He knew our quality of work and had seen my work numerous times. He asked me if I really wanted to test myself and do something never done before and being it was 2002 most likely never done again. Super long story short I made a cage out of several braze rods bent it around the cable attached a rose bud tip and melted the cage around the cable. Damn thing actually worked and I didn't catch the plane on fire. Also 154 won the exercise.
Just for fun imagine that it was decided the Grumman 303F would be selected over Mcdonnells design and became the F-15.....
One final edit, if you don't have a good solid reason to not hate the F-18 get a copy of the book The Pentagon Paradox.
WOAH! That truck is bad ass!
Apart from the 1957 Plymouth fury the f14 is the best looking machine ever built. God I love Americans. Well biden haters at least.
Biden sucks
Beautiful
When I was little, I mainly saw props when looking up at the sky but rarely any jets. The most common jets that I saw was actually the F-14 and F/A-18 rather any civilian jet! How about that now!😃
🦅🇨🇦Love F14 but most BEAUTIFUL and COOLEST ever built is🇨🇦🦅.
The Tomcat is probably one of the most beautiful fighter jet I've ever seen. It's a shame that it had to grow obsolete.
@@pocketpunch9920 the engines also blew up and killed the crew
Costly maintenance
Travis Pastrana and his cronies should be on either side of the runway holding an arresting cable and on their bikes. Of course a jet tail hook grabs the cable, which then propels them up and over a couple of ramps and perform back flips. That's how you end a show!
Who is Travis Pastrami 🤔 ?
They should have had the Tomcat race the Shockwave.
They did, the Tomcat lost..
Anyone notice the speed brakes in the beginning??
to tell the truth I don"t know where or if the F-18 has speed brakes,but I did see the landing gear lowered. He must have did a touch and go. Will say he was going pretty slow after takng off again.
Sorry, I was referring to the Tomcat's speed brakes. They're supposed to be absolutely flush when not in use, including taxiing. That would have been a down gripe back in the day for either a mechanical or hydraulic failure.
Did notice the speed brake deployed at around the 11:15, as it was diving down.
0:37 I see what you mean.... but I think its not a mechanical or hydraulic failure, just don't think it was fully retracted when last shut down, I'm not sure, but it looks like its fully retracted when they pass after landing and wave the flag 22:56
F-14トムキャットは何故か私の心の中の名機ですねぇ～。ブラックバードSR-71と共に🎉
RIP Shockwave, 😢 RIP Chris Darnell 😢
There's no jet that has more stage presence than the F14. Capabilities wise the F14 is still unmatched in the navy. F22 would own it, but that owns everything!
F/A-18A++ exceeds most of the Tomcat's capabilities, but still lacks the range.
Super Hornet Block II is a different animal with comparable range and a higher A2A weapon payload, with a vastly-superior Radar and sensor suite.
F-35C exceeds the F-14 across the board in all of the important metrics:
Combat radius/CAP
Payload
Sensors
Maintainability
Safety
Bring-back
Trap rate on the boat
@@LRRPFco52 when the comment was made F35s hadnt fully hit the fleet, yes F35 OWNS everything. Time of retirement and switch to super hornets the tomcat was superior and the sensor sweet comparable. Tomcat still has better out right speed, weapons payload capacity, and range. Navy needs a fleet defense aircraft, super hornet isn’t it. If it was still active the Tomcat would’ve received most of the upgrades the Rhino received. The people who okd the super hornet project against the Tomcat ASSumed it was legacy based and thought they’d save costs. Dumb. At the time of retirement the real F14Ds still smelled new. Huge waste.
@@TheUsmc0802 F-35C has been flying since 2010. Fleet IOC was 2019 after years of carrier quals, air wing integration, Fighter Weapons School course curriculum built for it, and squadrons populated.
F-14Ds had been built from March of 1990 to July 1992, so upon retirement in 2006, they had plenty of cockpit stank accumulated in them. They certainly were retired early though, but A/B models had a lot of hours on airframes and were ready for retirement. Many A models had already been mothballed by that time.
I miss them like anyone else, but can also see the big picture from mx perspective. Tomcat gave us 32 years of operational service, which was pretty typical compared with the F-4, A-6, A-7, and A-4. Change is hard and painful.
pilot: pulls a bit too hard after takeoff
F-14 wings: *Aight Ima Head Out*
the blue angles should have been f 14's
Iranian air force first contry after Americans can overhaul and upgraded F14. and we capability new radar ( bina )and long range air to air missiles( Fakor 90 )for Iranian tom cats
Awesome to the max
We have the coolest pilots in the world.
Well technically the Air Farce has the coolest pilots.
Uncle Sam's Navy has the coolest aviators. Aviators are a few rungs above pilots, at the very top of the stick-n-rudder evolutionary ladder.
The F14 Tomcat is so much more easier on the eyes than the Super Hornet.
The Corsair has to be full throttle to be able to keep up with the slow speeds of the Tom and hornet 😂
What a sex aircraft that f14 they should of destroyed the aircraft that got into enemies hands instead of destroying the ones they had so they could not get parts. The f14 Tomcat still could be great and have a role today if they would of kept producing them.
F14- "Anytime Baby.."
Love how everyone thinks cars and trucks are fast until the tomcat flys the low transition takeoff . 😂😂
5:41 what the heck is that floating ball?
Where the commentator says the engines are going through 300 gals a minute in full reheat most of the tomcats display is in reheat (afterburner) how much fuel does it take off with if that's true it must be heavy
It can hold around 2850 gal of fuel
Is no one gonna talk about the truck with FRICKEN jet engine strapped to the back 2:57
is something venting from the nose gear at the end?
F-14D > F-18 Legacy, Super Hornet, ANYTHING!!!!!
I miss the Tomcat at Airshows.
Such a sexy plane. Nothing like her before, and nothing like her after.
I don't think those F35 are going to give carriers the air intercept capability the tomcats did.
Right On!
The Tomcat was buff!
なんて言ってるか全く分からないけどとりあえずかっこいい！
10:10 💥💥🔫💥💥🔫
F-14 = The F-22 of its day
Forever
the hornet was not even at full power for that race
2:54 that's the most USA thing ever.
best jet ever made.
13:57 - Enjoy
The F14 is still faster and has a greater ordinance load than the 18... damn shame the Navy didn't go with the Super Tomcat!
The Tomcat was superior to the f18?
one lucky guy at 13:47
Imagine the pizza guy showing up with that truck!
1/ F-14 Tomcat
2/ F-86 Sabre
3/ P-51 Mustang
4/ F-15 Eagle
5/ Spitfire
Prettiest planes ever built...
And exactly where in this video the minute and second that there is a shockwave? All of this is just pulling condensation
The jet truck is named shockwave
Now if you want to get technical, that hornet would be able to beat shockwave with ease. The hornt just wasnt at its full potential. That race would have been a cake walk for the hornet.
The f18 beating a tomcat ? 😂😂😂😂 your joking right . The tomcat for starters is about 600knots faster . The hornet can’t sustain unlimited vertical out of a turn like a f14 .
A f14 would pull away from a hornet like a train
A f14 would pull away from a hornet like a train during a flight level pass
damned bugs!
😊😊😊😊😊