After many years the Navy was allowed to put the GE engine upgrade replacing the old Pratt engines. It turned a good fighter into an Outstanding Fighter!! Go NAVY
I served onboard the carrier USS America when Tomcats were in service. I like how they always sounded like they were angry at the sky. Sounds like it’s ripping the air apart. Love and miss these aircraft immensely Edit: USS America CV-66
If you read up its history or see interviews of the pilots who flew it, it was one of the deadliest as well. No one wanted to engage in a fight with an F-14 during the cold war and the Gulf war.
You should have seen them when they the cloud level forced them to do the show at low altitude. They did that along the length of the runway at near treetop level. When the F-14 passed show center all you could see was the from the cockpit behind the RIO forward, the entire plane from the engine intake back was hidden by the moisture generated by the shockwave.
Growing up in South Oxnard just a few miles from the Runway there at Mugu meant many airshow trips including during the "Space Fair" days of the 60's. I remember how the F-14 was Top Dog when they became operational along with all the other amazing craft we used to strain our eyes to watch them make their passes. Sadly, my last show was the one where an F-4 flyby ended in a flame-out and crash killing both men on board. As kids though in the 60's it was always a thrill to watch the shows start with the big photo-flash loop, sidewinder missile "live firings" at flares and all the exhibits.
Pt Mugu is notorious for having the active runway so close to the spectator stands and for cold humid air. It made for spectacular passes and great visuals. When the clouds did not mess up the background. Also Vandy 1 was a black Tomcat and was a sight to behold.
I was stationed at Pt. Mugu when VX-9 (Vampires?) was VX-4 Evaluators. Was IMA in the AQ (Fire Control tech...weapons guidance) vans for VAQ-34 (A-7's) and occasionally fixed other countries stuff. Love F14 Tomcats!
Awesome! The high speed passes with the massive vapor are amazing!!! Great camera work! If I were you I would use the frame at 2:55 for the thumbnail. I'm sure you'd get thousands of more views for the video.:-)
I was stationed at NAWS Pt. Mugu 1991-1995. It was still called PMTC when I first checked into my squadron, HCS-5 Firehawks. It was a great base, and I practically lived in the weight room lifting free weights literally every opportunity I had. Great times!
Is there any other plane that looks as sleek and sexy as the F-14. That Looks like it will do what ever it wants to do just sitting there. My God ! The lines on that craft just melt my heart. I loved the P-51 the same way until this Sculpture of aerodynamic wonder came along .
Step 1: Draw the best looking aircraft imaginable. Step 2: Generate a load of test data to prevent the bean counters from watering it down! What an outstanding aircraft.
It’s quite the unusual view today to see the afterburners so wide apart on the F-14.. Swing-wing aircraft are cool, like pop up headlights on sport cars used to be 😎
Love the 'ol Tomcat. The muscle car of fighters. I was in VF-102 Diamondbacks in the early 90's. Loved the low growl of those engines. Nothing like standing next to one waiting for its CAT shot in zone 5 AB at night time!!! What a site!!! Enemy aircraft that challenged the airspace around our carriers would turn-n-burn when they were lit-up from over 100+ miles away by it's radar. I feel it would still hold a valuable spot in the current needs of today's Navy. It adapted well to the new technologies and roles they added to it. Super Bug is very good, just no Tomcat. Tomcats Forever!
I was at the 84' Miramar show when a f14a academy broke the sound barrier. Car alarms went off babies were crying, and it broke high rise windows 3 miles away
@Systorable. Dick was giving a lecture at ucla couple years back While kids were shouting him down, I got in a good go fk your self for not saving one tomcat Dick. Your welcome
The Pratt and Whitney Engines were costing the Navy on Average one Tomcat a month. The GE Engines saved the Tomcat program. My brother lost his Tomcat in the North Atlantic after both Engines crapped out. Longest 15 minutes he and his RIO waited for a Helo in January.
@hoghogwild. Gvanes were disabled in early ninetys due to maintenance overloads. Nosedive effect at mach + was minimal. Those were permanent ordinance racks.
@@awg-9213 Plain as day upon re-look. Plus these were B's so the vanes would have been disabled/removed upon manufacture or remanufacture as the case may be. Thank you.
Amazing that a 50 year old airframe is so capable that if Iran's enemies fly towards Iran, they will launch the tomcat. And when they light you up with that radar 130 miles away, (still classified) those enemies will turn and run like hell. Because we will no longer sell them parts since 1970, Iran created their own military industrial complex just for the f14 and Phoenix missles
Also, in my experience. The Iranian people are some of most forward thinking, straight upward folks in the Entire region. Work, school, you know, Life tells me so. They are the Pershing people of that great empire, and proudly so. After the radical Islam takeover in 1970, F4 pilots were rounded up and given their choice fly these fresh new tomcats , or go to prison and be shot . Enemies all around, tensions surrounding , then Iran Iraq war gave them all new orders and were told , by the way don't bother trying to defect because your engines are detuned 12 percent or so and will be outran in shoot to kill ya orders, also don't bother ejecting , because they're disconnected so is the blown canapy function. What patronage. What would you do?
They should have updated the F-14 Tomcats with new engines, avionics, computers, electronic warfare suites, and aesa radar. That would also lessen the maintenance. Far superior to the so called Super Hornet. Longer range, super long range fire and forget missiles. Defender of the fleet. They still don't have a suitable replacement for it.
Take the tomcat , give it the newest GE engines with vector thrust..widen the wings with a different wing sweep capability or take some design from the yf23 widow wings...and u have a god mode cat
That F-23 was an awesome plane, expensive, it was actually too good and did more than what the govt was asking for. As badass as the Raptor is the BlackWidow F23 was like airplane porn! Lol
@@DudemeisterNL There's isn't another post WW2 war plane with more kills in Dog fights than the F14. You believe what you want my friend, but the info is there and it's accurate. It wasn't as maneuverable as other planes...when the wings weren't pulled in, when the wings were pulled in it was extremely maneuverable and with the right battle tactics and a good pilot it was almost impossible to defeat.
@@getsideways7257 We fought against the Tomcat in the Iran * Iraq war, we allied with Saddam once the Islamic State/Revolution tool over. For 8 years the Iraqis failed to shoot one down in a dogfight, even with our help and it racked up 100's of kills on MiGs....if my memory serves correctly, it was over 400 air to air kills, no other modem era plane comes close
@@getsideways7257 how convenient you only believe what you see with your own eyes....who's your daddy? You know because your mother told you so. The videos of the TomCat pulling off 9+G turns and shooting down MiGs are here on youtube, you must not want to see it. Following the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, the air force was renamed the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) and the post-revolution Interim Government of Iran canceled most Western arms orders. In 1980, an Iranian F-14 shot down an Iraqi Mil Mi-25 helicopter for its first air-to-air kill during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).[3] According to research by Tom Cooper, Iranian F-14s scored at least 50 air-to-air victories in the first six months of the war against Iraqi MiG-21s, MiG-23s, and some Su-20s/22s. During the same period, only one Iranian F-14 suffered damage after being hit by debris from a nearby MiG-21 that exploded. The F-14 was also responsible for the 1st air to air kill in Dessert Storm shot down a MiG 25.
What are you talking about lol. The Tomcat was an absolute beast and was a pure MiG killer, and carried the Phoenix Missile system, and was the main platform for the Navy to protect Carrier group for 20+ years.
tom carman don’t get me wrong, i like the bird, just being honest, it’s just a Huge machine, can’t do much in a dog fight, and about that incident where it supposedly a tomcat took down a libian mig... don’t buy it...
@@Aroo_0 OK man, the Iranians are still using the F14 and during the Iran/Iraq war, the TomCat shot down hundreds, yes, hundreds of MiGs over 400 air to air combat victories confirmed by the US, as we were helping the Iraqis in that war and we had no answer for the TomCat, we couldn't help them defend against it and in 8 years of war, the Iraqi's failed to shoot even one TomCat down....and when Russia was bombing Syria less than 5 years ago, their bombers were escorted by Iranian F14 TomCats, and the video is posted here on UA-cam. Also, the 1st air to air kill in operation Dessert Storm was an F14 TomCat shooting down an Iraqi mig. And the incident you don't "Buy" about Lybian MiGs being shot down is also on Video. After we sold the TomCats to Iran and then had them as an adversary, we never exported another TomCat to anyone and the Govt placed an order for more for the Navy, we sold F15's, 16's, 18's & 35's many other nations, but not the TomCat. Until the F22 raptor, this was the premier fighter platform in the US Arenal.
@@Aroo_0 it killed hundreds dummie, we couldn't shoot it down and we built it. We were supplying Saddam with the weapons to fight Iran and the Tomcat decimated their entire air force. We funded the Iraqi purchases of their MiG22's and 25's and the Tomcat ate them up, and there were two separate times the US shot down Lybian MiGs and the 1st kill in Dessert storm was a TomCat shooting down a MiG25....what the he'll are you talking about?????
After many years the Navy was allowed to put the GE engine upgrade replacing the old Pratt engines. It turned a good fighter into an Outstanding Fighter!! Go NAVY
They were tearing it up..luv the tomcat!
beautiful F-14's
I served onboard the carrier USS America when Tomcats were in service. I like how they always sounded like they were angry at the sky. Sounds like it’s ripping the air apart. Love and miss these aircraft immensely
Edit: USS America CV-66
F14 Tom Cat..one of the greatest fighter ever.....
Love the visuals created when they are trans-sonic...
Such a beautiful and aggressive looking aircraft.
If you read up its history or see interviews of the pilots who flew it, it was one of the deadliest as well. No one wanted to engage in a fight with an F-14 during the cold war and the Gulf war.
You should have seen them when they the cloud level forced them to do the show at low altitude.
They did that along the length of the runway at near treetop level.
When the F-14 passed show center all you could see was the from the cockpit behind the RIO forward, the entire plane from the engine intake back was hidden by the moisture generated by the shockwave.
Growing up in South Oxnard just a few miles from the Runway there at Mugu meant many airshow trips including during the "Space Fair" days of the 60's. I remember how the F-14 was Top Dog when they became operational along with all the other amazing craft we used to strain our eyes to watch them make their passes. Sadly, my last show was the one where an F-4 flyby ended in a flame-out and crash killing both men on board. As kids though in the 60's it was always a thrill to watch the shows start with the big photo-flash loop, sidewinder missile "live firings" at flares and all the exhibits.
Yes I remember those days also, good times and the airshow were top notch.
i would give anything to see this beast fly again.
Fantastic f-14 b demo. Fly Navy 🇱🇷
Pt Mugu is notorious for having the active runway so close to the spectator stands and for cold humid air.
It made for spectacular passes and great visuals.
When the clouds did not mess up the background.
Also Vandy 1 was a black Tomcat and was a sight to behold.
@Linus A. Vandy 1 playboy bunnys on their stabs. When the navy used to know how to have fun. Tailhook fd that up
Was a great few years 72-74. Loved the base...
6:00 just might be the coolest thing any human has ever witnessed on this planet. Tucked and turning on full AB.
Heck yeah!! Awesome.
Thanks for posting. I went to that show. Brings back some cool memories of the Tomcat.
I was stationed at Pt. Mugu when VX-9 (Vampires?) was VX-4 Evaluators. Was IMA in the AQ (Fire Control tech...weapons guidance) vans for VAQ-34 (A-7's) and occasionally fixed other countries stuff. Love F14 Tomcats!
この映像は、楽しめました。何より私はF-14トムキャットが何故か大好きな機体です😉❗
GE engine made Tomcat what it was suppose to be. Great vapor vlog.Thanks & recall seeing that at demo Miramar show
Awesome! The high speed passes with the massive vapor are amazing!!! Great camera work! If I were you I would use the frame at 2:55 for the thumbnail. I'm sure you'd get thousands of more views for the video.:-)
Black tail for here. Vapor shot for evening show. Ha ha ha
Aha, ok.;-)
thanks for posting this. Great camera work
So that's where those iconic pictures of the Tomcat's high speed pass came from! This is awesome.
I was at this airshow!! Damn I miss the old F-14s at Pt. Mugu!!! Such good memories!!
Great video... miss the Tomcats!
I was stationed at NAWS Pt. Mugu 1991-1995. It was still called PMTC when I first checked into my squadron, HCS-5 Firehawks. It was a great base, and I practically lived in the weight room lifting free weights literally every opportunity I had. Great times!
Is there any other plane that looks as sleek and sexy as the F-14. That Looks like it will do what ever it wants to do just sitting there. My God ! The lines on that craft just melt my heart. I loved the P-51 the same way until this Sculpture of aerodynamic wonder came along .
Burner IST Air show video's, You have a very nice collection of video's! Keep uploading!!!
Step 1: Draw the best looking aircraft imaginable.
Step 2: Generate a load of test data to prevent the bean counters from watering it down!
What an outstanding aircraft.
It’s quite the unusual view today to see the afterburners so wide apart on the F-14.. Swing-wing aircraft are cool, like pop up headlights on sport cars used to be 😎
The F-14 was so cool. Such a crowd pleaser at air shows.
2:49 that cone baby
Love the 'ol Tomcat. The muscle car of fighters. I was in VF-102 Diamondbacks in the early 90's. Loved the low growl of those engines. Nothing like standing next to one waiting for its CAT shot in zone 5 AB at night time!!! What a site!!! Enemy aircraft that challenged the airspace around our carriers would turn-n-burn when they were lit-up from over 100+ miles away by it's radar. I feel it would still hold a valuable spot in the current needs of today's Navy. It adapted well to the new technologies and roles they added to it. Super Bug is very good, just no Tomcat. Tomcats Forever!
I was at the 84' Miramar show when a f14a academy broke the sound barrier. Car alarms went off babies were crying, and it broke high rise windows 3 miles away
Beautiful footage. If I ever get filthy rich I'm going to buy myself a tomcat and learn how to fly it.
I’ll be your RIO
Was there!
Incredible.
fn awesome
The jolly roger squadron is the best!
But this is the Vampires, not the bones.
@@WolfpackOne sorry I didn't notice.
@@oscartobaroatmeal6734 no worries :)
Awesome.... I saw Top Gun Maverick the other day... Tom Cruise has not lost his cool and neither has the F14! 👍✈️
Thanks, Dick Chain-me for ordering this great bird retired and destroyed.
@Systorable. Dick was giving a lecture at ucla couple years back While kids were shouting him down, I got in a good go fk your self for not saving one tomcat Dick. Your welcome
Gatorade... 154 ATBS Knights , I can't believe it's not butter... Spaka
2nd Gen. Haro of the upper deck reporting for duty SIr.
The Danger Zone
9:42 "Wave-off!"
古き良き時代ですね…。つくづく、いまの機材で撮りたかった、と思います。
もうちょいリタイア延ばして欲しかったですよね。D800が間に合えばだいぶ違っていたかなと思います。
今使っているCANONのビデオカメラの方は何か撮り辛くてもう...画素数以外退化してますよアレ(笑
I though these Cats were of VF-103 Jolly Rogers at first.
Cans baby!
Saw Tomcats fly as a kid.. Sad there aren't anyone around any longer...
F&$#ing Awesome!
Loooove the F14, it’s the worst decision by the USA airforce you retire this great bird! Flawless in every way ❤️❤️❤️
Air Force huh?
the CAT allmighty😊👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Roy fokker!!!
kappas 😊👍
So was the Improved Engines on the F-14 Louder Than the A Engine models ?
The Pratt and Whitney Engines were costing the Navy on Average one Tomcat a month. The GE Engines saved the Tomcat program. My brother lost his Tomcat in the North Atlantic after both Engines crapped out. Longest 15 minutes he and his RIO waited for a Helo in January.
3:45 That’s Hot !
Glove Vanes at 8:44!
@hoghogwild. Gvanes were disabled in early ninetys due to maintenance overloads. Nosedive effect at mach + was minimal. Those were permanent ordinance racks.
@@awg-9213 Plain as day upon re-look. Plus these were B's so the vanes would have been disabled/removed upon manufacture or remanufacture as the case may be. Thank you.
Amazing that a 50 year old airframe is so capable that if Iran's enemies fly towards Iran, they will launch the tomcat. And when they light you up with that radar 130 miles away, (still classified) those enemies will turn and run like hell. Because we will no longer sell them parts since 1970, Iran created their own military industrial complex just for the f14 and Phoenix missles
Also, in my experience. The Iranian people are some of most forward thinking, straight upward folks in the Entire region. Work, school, you know, Life tells me so. They are the Pershing people of that great empire, and proudly so. After the radical Islam takeover in 1970, F4 pilots were rounded up and given their choice fly these fresh new tomcats , or go to prison and be shot . Enemies all around, tensions surrounding , then Iran Iraq war gave them all new orders and were told , by the way don't bother trying to defect because your engines are detuned 12 percent or so and will be outran in shoot to kill ya orders, also don't bother ejecting , because they're disconnected so is the blown canapy function. What patronage. What would you do?
They should have updated the F-14 Tomcats with new engines, avionics, computers, electronic warfare suites, and aesa radar.
That would also lessen the maintenance.
Far superior to the so called Super Hornet.
Longer range, super long range fire and forget missiles.
Defender of the fleet. They still don't have a suitable replacement for it.
New version tomcat is coming .!
@ MAFFIE SEVILLA. do you know something i don't !
@@awg-9213 No, they don't know anything. No new Tomcat is coming.
Take the tomcat , give it the newest GE engines with vector thrust..widen the wings with a different wing sweep capability or take some design from the yf23 widow wings...and u have a god mode cat
@@getsideways7257 It's only one of the best turn fights ever
That F-23 was an awesome plane, expensive, it was actually too good and did more than what the govt was asking for. As badass as the Raptor is the BlackWidow F23 was like airplane porn! Lol
@@DudemeisterNL There's isn't another post WW2 war plane with more kills in Dog fights than the F14. You believe what you want my friend, but the info is there and it's accurate. It wasn't as maneuverable as other planes...when the wings weren't pulled in, when the wings were pulled in it was extremely maneuverable and with the right battle tactics and a good pilot it was almost impossible to defeat.
@@getsideways7257 We fought against the Tomcat in the Iran * Iraq war, we allied with Saddam once the Islamic State/Revolution tool over. For 8 years the Iraqis failed to shoot one down in a dogfight, even with our help and it racked up 100's of kills on MiGs....if my memory serves correctly, it was over 400 air to air kills, no other modem era plane comes close
@@getsideways7257 how convenient you only believe what you see with your own eyes....who's your daddy? You know because your mother told you so. The videos of the TomCat pulling off 9+G turns and shooting down MiGs are here on youtube, you must not want to see it.
Following the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, the air force was renamed the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) and the post-revolution Interim Government of Iran canceled most Western arms orders. In 1980, an Iranian F-14 shot down an Iraqi Mil Mi-25 helicopter for its first air-to-air kill during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).[3] According to research by Tom Cooper, Iranian F-14s scored at least 50 air-to-air victories in the first six months of the war against Iraqi MiG-21s, MiG-23s, and some Su-20s/22s. During the same period, only one Iranian F-14 suffered damage after being hit by debris from a nearby MiG-21 that exploded. The F-14 was also responsible for the 1st air to air kill in Dessert Storm shot down a MiG 25.
That big thing can’t do much.
What are you talking about lol. The Tomcat was an absolute beast and was a pure MiG killer, and carried the Phoenix Missile system, and was the main platform for the Navy to protect Carrier group for 20+ years.
tom carman how many MIGs did it kill? yes, none, cero zip nada
tom carman don’t get me wrong, i like the bird, just being honest, it’s just a Huge machine, can’t do much in a dog fight, and about that incident where it supposedly a tomcat took down a libian mig... don’t buy it...
@@Aroo_0 OK man, the Iranians are still using the F14 and during the Iran/Iraq war, the TomCat shot down hundreds, yes, hundreds of MiGs over 400 air to air combat victories confirmed by the US, as we were helping the Iraqis in that war and we had no answer for the TomCat, we couldn't help them defend against it and in 8 years of war, the Iraqi's failed to shoot even one TomCat down....and when Russia was bombing Syria less than 5 years ago, their bombers were escorted by Iranian F14 TomCats, and the video is posted here on UA-cam. Also, the 1st air to air kill in operation Dessert Storm was an F14 TomCat shooting down an Iraqi mig. And the incident you don't "Buy" about Lybian MiGs being shot down is also on Video. After we sold the TomCats to Iran and then had them as an adversary, we never exported another TomCat to anyone and the Govt placed an order for more for the Navy, we sold F15's, 16's, 18's & 35's many other nations, but not the TomCat. Until the F22 raptor, this was the premier fighter platform in the US Arenal.
@@Aroo_0 it killed hundreds dummie, we couldn't shoot it down and we built it. We were supplying Saddam with the weapons to fight Iran and the Tomcat decimated their entire air force. We funded the Iraqi purchases of their MiG22's and 25's and the Tomcat ate them up, and there were two separate times the US shot down Lybian MiGs and the 1st kill in Dessert storm was a TomCat shooting down a MiG25....what the he'll are you talking about?????