I wanted to be an F-14 pilot as soon as I graduated high school. But with a history of asthma, disqualified me. My dream crashed and burned. It wasn't pretty. Though as a kid at an airshow on Guam in '92 they had an F-14 available for kids to come up and sit in the pilot seat for 1 min. My eyes lit up as I was being put into the cockpit. I was mimicking the salute and thumbs-up gestures pilots did just before take-off AND I was doing Maverick's signature "I'm gonna hit the brakes and fly right by." move as well. I was such a dorky kid with big dreams of hoping to pilot my very own day. But as you know, that didn't happen. For that one minute of sitting in the cockpit of the F-14... Bliss.
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.
I used to work on all types of aircraft engines and powerplants, but this particular bird has the most unique and impressive sound that I miss soo much!! TOMCAT 4EVER!!!
Footage filmed by Hart Aviation of the 2004 NAS Oceana Tomcat Tac Demo. Hart Aviation released Oceana air show footage from 2003 to 2006 focusing mainly on the F-14 due to the pending retirement. The 2003 issue had extended footage of the F-14 from Fleet launch, Tac Demo and walkaround. 2005 edition featured the final Tac Demo. In 2006 they released three editions for the Fleet Fly In during March when VF-213 and VF-31 returned from their final operational cruise, then came the 2006 airshow featuring the final appearance of VF-31 then a September edition was released for the Tomcat Sunset ceremony. Unfortunately Hart Aviation no longer have an internet site for purchasing this footage.
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
The whistle of those engines when the plane powers up and climbs is so cool. I grew up near Oceana and sold cars near the base during college and the sound of F-14’s overhead was like the sky being ripped apart.
People of Murica hear me! Ask your corn-man to reinstate the F14-Tomcat. Sincerely the rest of the world. And yes I sexually Identify as an F14 - Tomcat.
Looks like the same I seen in little rock early 2000s. Was the most amazing plane I seen fly. Thing was very quick for it's size. Impressed the hell out of me.
I love the way the F-14 sounds in flight. So loud. 1:23 shows this perfectly. The whine you hear as the pilot increases power into afterburner and then as he turns hard, you hear that low pitch bassy sound of the engines at 1:28, almost like the engine is howling. So awesome. They call that the sound of freedom. :P
Saw one of these beautiful birds at an airshow when i was a kid outside the airport sitting in the bed of someone's truck i got sooo excited to see it taxi onto the runway it did some low speed fly overs then it flew over where i was went full vertical lit the burners and dissapeared it was low enough i could feel the heat for a split second before it was gone
Maneuvers a lot better than most people give it credit for. Could you imagine an F-14 with AESA radar, a newer better replacement for the Phoenix, and modern engines?
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
Anyone else catch the birds starting at 4:05? The Turkey my favorite aircraft I flew while in the Navy. I'm surprised they didn't do a ride along with the most famous demo pilot, Dale "Snort" Snodgrass. He was a former squadron CO and one of the highest time F14 pilots...in addition to being IIRC the last demo pilot we had.
9:20 is very impressive, I wouldn't think it has a 1:1 power to weight, it wasn't vertical very long but still very impressive! Also love 9:36, the back seater is calling out the mach 0.86 up to 0.97, so close to supersonic, amazing aircraft. Saw a few a couple of times at RAF Leuchars, departing during typical Scottish weather, pouring down, poor vis, but a I saw them for a few seconds, probably around 1985 or so.
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)
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.
@@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.
Once got to see a small airshow at Salinas California municipal airport Dad and I were up there for car racing event at Laguna seca race track just happened to run across the air show 1991-92. He wasn't much an aircraft fan more car fan but I sure was, and the airshow was small not many people 2 F-14's flew in were the highlight of the show. The engines on the F-14 was so loud I remember hearing car alarms all over the city as they did a 400 knot pass right over our heads probably not even allowed now days. I got to speak to the pilots no one around they said they flew in from an aircraft carrier which was out at sea some place. I wished I had asked more questions about the F-14 back then you just didn't think those aircraft would ever be retired It's hard to believe none fly any longer with the exception of Iran.
I always think of Maverick and him saying “I’ll hit the brakes, he’ll fly right by”, and wonder what those movie pilots could have done with the F22 and full thrust vectoring! It’s like trying to slam on the brakes in an M1A1 Abrams tank, vs an F1 car. I wonder what ol Snort could have done in Raptor!
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.
VF-101, got my ass chewed by CMC Hill while attending F14 mechanic transition there. I was never late again. And had a hell of a leader Senior Chief Sink.
I just don't understand why we could not have given our F-14's to the Marines. Seriously. It seems like most people agree the F-14 had great air to ground specs.
@@LIamaLlama554 Under the cockpit, you can see the double chin pod that holds the TCS (camera) and IRST (infrared camera) F-14As didn't have a chin pod and F-14Bs only had the TCS.
I flew F-14 XA's off the Enterprise, it was the most powerfull, capable, fastest, and high kill factor Aircraft on deck. i could out run Hornets and MiGs...
As a comparison, The F14 weighs 43,735 pounds empty, rate of climb 45,000 feet per minute. The F16 weighs 18,600 pounds empty, rate of climb 50,000 feet per minute.
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.
Love the F14. Wish the Yanks hadn't retired it as it's still a very capable aircraft but maintenance costs and upgrades are expensive fleetwide so it's understandable. Still a beautiful aircraft, better looking than F15 imho. Thx
I wanted to be an F-14 pilot as soon as I graduated high school. But with a history of asthma, disqualified me. My dream crashed and burned. It wasn't pretty.
Though as a kid at an airshow on Guam in '92 they had an F-14 available for kids to come up and sit in the pilot seat for 1 min.
My eyes lit up as I was being put into the cockpit. I was mimicking the salute and thumbs-up gestures pilots did just before take-off AND I was doing Maverick's signature "I'm gonna hit the brakes and fly right by." move as well. I was such a dorky kid with big dreams of hoping to pilot my very own day. But as you know, that didn't happen.
For that one minute of sitting in the cockpit of the F-14... Bliss.
most photogenic aircraft ever. not a single bad angle on that thing wings open or swept
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
I used to work on all types of aircraft engines and powerplants, but this particular bird has the most unique and impressive sound that I miss soo much!! TOMCAT 4EVER!!!
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!
Pratt & Whitney TF-30?
Footage filmed by Hart Aviation of the 2004 NAS Oceana Tomcat Tac Demo. Hart Aviation released Oceana air show footage from 2003 to 2006 focusing mainly on the F-14 due to the pending retirement. The 2003 issue had extended footage of the F-14 from Fleet launch, Tac Demo and walkaround. 2005 edition featured the final Tac Demo. In 2006 they released three editions for the Fleet Fly In during March when VF-213 and VF-31 returned from their final operational cruise, then came the 2006 airshow featuring the final appearance of VF-31 then a September edition was released for the Tomcat Sunset ceremony. Unfortunately Hart Aviation no longer have an internet site for purchasing this footage.
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.
even being retired...they need more f-14 demo teams to fly at airshows
I love the way that G.E. Engine/intake makes that "MmMmMmMmrrrrrrpphhhhhh!" sound on the F-14B/D. 1:27
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
The whistle of those engines when the plane powers up and climbs is so cool. I grew up near Oceana and sold cars near the base during college and the sound of F-14’s overhead was like the sky being ripped apart.
One of the two most beautiful planes ever built. The other is of course the SR-71 / A-12
People of Murica hear me! Ask your corn-man to reinstate the F14-Tomcat. Sincerely the rest of the world. And yes I sexually Identify as an F14 - Tomcat.
Looks like the same I seen in little rock early 2000s. Was the most amazing plane I seen fly. Thing was very quick for it's size. Impressed the hell out of me.
I love the way the F-14 sounds in flight. So loud. 1:23 shows this perfectly. The whine you hear as the pilot increases power into afterburner and then as he turns hard, you hear that low pitch bassy sound of the engines at 1:28, almost like the engine is howling. So awesome. They call that the sound of freedom. :P
VF-101 Grim Reapers NAS Oceana. Loved watching them fly during FOD walkdown!👍
I was a Fly-1 yellow shirt on USS Nimitz 78-81. We had VF-41 and VF-84 Tomcats. Loved them then and still love the Tomcat today
Saw one of these beautiful birds at an airshow when i was a kid outside the airport sitting in the bed of someone's truck i got sooo excited to see it taxi onto the runway it did some low speed fly overs then it flew over where i was went full vertical lit the burners and dissapeared it was low enough i could feel the heat for a split second before it was gone
The Demo Team from VF-101 "Grim Reapers" did excellent performances at the Sound Of Freedom airshows at NAS/JRB WillowGrove,PA.
She is a graceful airplane. She seems to float in the air during some of the maneuvers.
That thing looks epic from a distance with the wings swept back
"" I love the sound "" of these F-14 tomcat engines!!!!!!!!!!!
In another life I will become a jet fighter pilot.
Maneuvers a lot better than most people give it credit for. Could you imagine an F-14 with AESA radar, a newer better replacement for the Phoenix, and modern engines?
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?
What a beauty. F 14.
Anyone else catch the birds starting at 4:05? The Turkey my favorite aircraft I flew while in the Navy. I'm surprised they didn't do a ride along with the most famous demo pilot, Dale "Snort" Snodgrass. He was a former squadron CO and one of the highest time F14 pilots...in addition to being IIRC the last demo pilot we had.
Those are pretty agile for as big as they are. Sweet vid!
9:20 is very impressive, I wouldn't think it has a 1:1 power to weight, it wasn't vertical very long but still very impressive! Also love 9:36, the back seater is calling out the mach 0.86 up to 0.97, so close to supersonic, amazing aircraft. Saw a few a couple of times at RAF Leuchars, departing during typical Scottish weather, pouring down, poor vis, but a I saw them for a few seconds, probably around 1985 or so.
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.
That's fucking tight maneuvering. US should not have got rid of Tomcats.
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.
still my favorite plane of all time
This was my favorite plane when I was a little kid..... It still is today.... too bad I will never see it fly again
Once got to see a small airshow at Salinas California municipal airport Dad and I were up there for car racing event at Laguna seca race track just happened to run across the air show 1991-92. He wasn't much an aircraft fan more car fan but I sure was, and the airshow was small not many people 2 F-14's flew in were the highlight of the show. The engines on the F-14 was so loud I remember hearing car alarms all over the city as they did a 400 knot pass right over our heads probably not even allowed now days. I got to speak to the pilots no one around they said they flew in from an aircraft carrier which was out at sea some place. I wished I had asked more questions about the F-14 back then you just didn't think those aircraft would ever be retired It's hard to believe none fly any longer with the exception of Iran.
Fantastic, loved those high speed passes!!
What an absolute BEAST!!!!!
The pilot has the plane he is flying in (The F-14 Tomcat) on his helmet with the wings in the full sweep position.
Miss the Tomcat. Hopefully some well off private individuals have purchased some cats for airshow worthiness!! Continue for generations to come!
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.
F-14、何故か好きで仕方ないです。当時の開発追憶に称賛したいです。主翼を展開しての低速の安定性･運動性能、主翼を閉じてデルタ翼では高速に転じる当時としてはスーパーウェポンと思える期待でしたし、今でもラプター(F-22)やライトニング(F-35)よりも美しく見えるのですが、年配の私の一目惚れでしたぁ～😌
The Tomcat was such a beautiful aircraft. I recon they will have a UAV Tomcat II in a delta wing one day.
How is it that a fighter jet can be this sexy.
Its design will last forever. immortal silhouette
I always think of Maverick and him saying “I’ll hit the brakes, he’ll fly right by”, and wonder what those movie pilots could have done with the F22 and full thrust vectoring! It’s like trying to slam on the brakes in an M1A1 Abrams tank, vs an F1 car. I wonder what ol Snort could have done in Raptor!
the thing bout a 'cat though, is they can be unforgiving if you screw up.... but if you take care of her she always holds you up.
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?
VF-101, got my ass chewed by CMC Hill while attending F14 mechanic transition there. I was never late again. And had a hell of a leader Senior Chief Sink.
Reminds me of the many PMCF'S I watched while at VF-101, 1986-1990. Beautiful. Miss the Cats! 😊
Watching this suddenly gave me a flashback of Goose saying "WATCH THE MOUNTAINS!" with Kenny Logins 'Playin' With The Boys' in the background.
Have to admit this is one of my favorite planes. This and the F-4.
The RIO has the biggest balls, imagine the trust of putting someone else in control of the rocket you are flying?
freaking Amazing Demo and machine
that thing has a wicked tight turn radius
Best plane ever, sad to see it retired!
ThaT bird is beutiful, i think im weeping.
Couple of the birds at the last, the tail letters looked like CVW-17's AA and the VF-74 emblem.
I know the bird flying the show was VF-101.
@9:59-10:04 Speechless
Impressive , this guy knows how to handle this brick..
That AB sound at 1:27 ....pure porn
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
Every time I See these in videos the top gun song plays in my head. All way to the danger zone all way too the danger zoooooooooooooone!!!!!!
Looking at that hud, is that a F14D? Is that a freakn F14D!?
yep, that's the D model.
Thank God I live in a country that can produce an aircraft like this
I just don't understand why we could not have given our F-14's to the Marines. Seriously. It seems like most people agree the F-14 had great air to ground specs.
likely size issues, it was a massive aircraft
We got rid of them because they are extremely expensive to maintain/ repair
9:56 fast, low and loud pass.
Best part of the entire video.
Awesome Awesome Aircraft and Display low passes high angles of Bank typical F14 ..no other aircraft matches that look
The 1998 Oceana show does that opening move as soon as the wheels leave the runway
I really do miss the f 14's a lot.
My favorite fighter jet of all time.
USN should've stayed with the Tomcats flying for demos.
That's the D model. Only 55 of them were ever build/converted, so you can say it's rare to see footage like that.
Thanks. What is the tell that it’s a D?
@@LIamaLlama554 Under the cockpit, you can see the double chin pod that holds the TCS (camera) and IRST (infrared camera) F-14As didn't have a chin pod and F-14Bs only had the TCS.
Oh the beautiful sounds of those loud birds ❤
best of the best plane made in history
9:59 is the best pass!! Love it!!
I flew F-14 XA's off the Enterprise, it was the most powerfull, capable, fastest, and high kill factor Aircraft on deck. i could out run Hornets and MiGs...
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 wanted to be a navy pilot in the 1980s but they wouldn't let me because I was a gaay waad
5:20 - 5:30 , 5:44 OH YEEEEEEEAAHHHH!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great video and love the crew comments
so graceful
As a comparison,
The F14 weighs 43,735 pounds empty, rate of climb 45,000 feet per minute.
The F16 weighs 18,600 pounds empty, rate of climb 50,000 feet per minute.
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.
I am a curse for myself who has not grown into a fighter pilot.
Bring back the Tomcat!! Keep the Warthog!! Nuff said!!
Anyone who knows, what's the alarm going off at 0:28? I'm guessing altitude, but I just want to make sure
Love you both so much thanks for this amazing gift
If it wasn't for these marvelous beauties, we would have lost the war to Iraq. RIP Jalil Zandi.
You couldn't even hear the hornet and it looked like a corolla compared to that Tomcat...❤
Love the F14. Wish the Yanks hadn't retired it as it's still a very capable aircraft but maintenance costs and upgrades are expensive fleetwide so it's understandable. Still a beautiful aircraft, better looking than F15 imho. Thx
I think i know what my first tat will be a picture of a tomcat with the words "Any where Any time Baby."
Anyone here waiting for the DCS Tomcat ?
I already handed them my money...bouncing up and down waiting for release now!
Most beautiful fighter jet ever👍❤️
I have met Pilots/Rios who flew her.
I never saw her fly live 😭😭
Najpiękniejszy samolot bojowy świata !
It's a shame they don't let Dale Snodgrass have one to operate in the Warbird circuit...
Love the r d đ demo 14 with the reheat
Big and beautiful!!
The most beautiful fighter ever
This is giving me Top Gun flashbacks.
5:44 RIO grabs the oh 💩 handle.
4:01 Aaaand Wings-Two-Three-Four-Five-Six-Seven-Eight-Ten-Nine-Ten
If they made a stealth x-wing fighter with an a10 cannon flown by blondes in bikinis it wouldnt be as cool or as sexy as an f14.
If only I could see the Tomcat fly once more😢
10:04 *definitely NOT an F-14 D*
you're correct, it's the A model at the 10:04 mark
Uma maravilha feita pelo homem
Man idk how these guys got anything done with having to annotate literally everything.
5:44 the wing flex
This awesome aircraft absolutely wore out its maintainers! BK Baby!
These are dangerous aoa’s with the cat
No shaking the tower on the last flight? xD
Miss this jet