Thanks for the detailed walk around. Not seen the movie yet… hopefully next week. I don’t think anything will ever be as good as the opening minutes of the original with full surround sound.
I haven't seen it, but will watch it eventually. I can recall watching the original on a date with my girlfriend(later my wife) in High School while we were both dependents of parents stationed in Italy.
Paul, as an ex F-14B Plane Captain and Mechanic with VF-103, I would say you were pretty much spot-on on everything you stated. Good Job! I would like to add, On the F-14 B's/Ds with the GE engine, the pilots could not go full throttle on a bolter as there was this system/functionality called "RATS" which stands for "Reduced Arrest Thrust system". the GE engines on the B's and D's were so powerful they could cause the arresting cable to fail and snap. If the Hook was down and the weight-on-wheels switch was closed, the engines would only go to 90% to avoid the snapping cables. I know because I worked on this. Of course the A-Models did not need this. Thank you for the awesome video as usual! Please check out some of the USS Saratoga/F-14B videos on my channel!
Hey Deene, I'm a Ogden too. Maybe I'm your long lost Aussie cousin?🤔 My Great....Great Grandfather did live in New York sometime in the early 1800s between settling in Australia. I'm actually a aircraft maintenance engineer (A&P) in the airlines, and as a strange coincidence my uncle was a aircraft mechanic on the USS Hornet during WW2. 🙂🇦🇺🇺🇸
I was an AD and Plane Captain in VF-51 in the 80s with the F-14A. VF-111 was our sister squadron and we went on the USS Carl Vinson. That was great times. Nice video, brings back great memories.
This is a rare find. This Grumman F-14 Tomcat is from VF 111, which was the Air wing attached to the USS KITTY HAWK CV 63, when I worked the flight deck then. Yep, The Fighter Wing with the same shark nose. So I'm sure I handled this very plane many times, as an 'Aviation Boatswain' Airman when I was in V-1 Division.
Fascinating! Fwiw, my uncle (my late mum’s brother) was one of the original designers of the F14. He worked for Grumman for decades, and still (retired) lives in Bethpage New York, where Grumman used to have headquarters. In the late-1960s/early-1970s, the F-14 was such a hot and complex project, we didn’t see him for weeks at a time. He was always working, 24/7.
@@wotan10950 Thank you for sharing your story. That sounds awesome. The F-14 is truly a work of art, even with it's flaws. I'm glad I got to see Top Gun 2 as it made an appearance in the second movie. :)
Everytime I see the F-14 Tomcat, I can't help but hear the Top Gun anthem in the background. dun-dun-dun, dundundundun dun-dun, dundun-dun, dundun-dun, dundun-dun-dun, Such a good song.
Hey Paul, you hit on a winner with this bird. Great video mate, one of my favs. Yes I am a fan of A10, SR71, F117, F111 and others - but this one holds a special place. Oh, Space Shuttle was a pretty good one too! Ok, so military aviation fan, you got me. Cheers mate.
My first duty assignment in the Navy was in 1972, at Naval Air Station Pt. Mugu, California. It was there that I first saw an F-14A Tomcat. They were testing and evaluating the Aim-54 Phoenix Missile System. My last assignment ended in 1991 at Miramar, then home to the west coast fighter squadrons, still flying the Tomcat. The latest F-14A+ And F-14D, unlike the original TF-30 powered models did not need afterburner for takeoff.
I was raised on a farm in western Kansas. When I was a teenager in the 80's, one day I was out fixing fence in one of our pastures. Our farm was on top of a hill on the side of a big valley. I was about 25 yards from the corner post stretching barbed wire when a air force f16 or 15 came flying over the corner post, he missed it by only three feet! I remember jumping to the ground because I wasn't sure if he was going to crash. That experience made me not like being buzzed out on our farm. A couple of years later some guy in a puddle jumper, ( prop plain) thought it would be fun to buzz me while I was working. He did it once then turned back to do it again. When he was about ready to pass by me overhead i acted like I was going to toss my fence stretchers into his prop! He didn't do that again!
You've made my night Paul! I can't even remember how many scale models I made throughout my younger years! I was always on the lookout for them 😂 Such a great looking aircraft when it's wings were swept, yet it looked super aggressive when looking at it head on! A multi-role workhorse of an aircraft! Thank you for an excellent tour Paul. You're the best Mate! ☺️
I was stationed at Pax River in the late 70's to early 80's. Worked defense contract there after my separation. Had a guy in one of the squadrons that was a F-14 pilot, also a US Naval Test Pilot School graduate as well as a fighter weapons school graduate. He was the exact opposite of what they portrayed in the ridiculous movie top gun, one of the most laid back people I've ever met. Then again most of the pilots at Naval Air Test Center Pax were graduates of Test Pilot School. FLY NAVY!!!
Hey Paul to further your knowledge. You passed one cool feature that the F-14/A ONLY had. During speeds of mach 1+. The F-14/A had "Glove Vanes". Located right before the wings. Incase anyone was wondering why there was a rectangle on the deltas.
Wonderful video as usual, Paul. This would have to be one of the coolest fighters of all time: fast, mean, and big. I had a 6-foot-long poster of an F-14 flying over USS Constellation in my room as a teenager. Another kid begged me to sell it to him. No deal.
A timely upload. Thanks Paul. Top Gun: Maverick did not disappoint. I found it excellent and emotional. Hey do you remember something about the admiral's daughter that Maverick had a history of a high speed pass?
I was lucky enough to talk my way into being allowed to climb the side of an F-14 when a carrier was visiting Sydney, Australia years ago. Got an awesome photo of me next to the cockpit with one of the ground crew helmets on. Wasn’t allowed into the cockpit as you need to be trained and certified on the ejection seat. Also wasn’t allowed to take a photo of the cockpit which I thought was amusing given it was shut down.
Thanks Paul, this is a great video. I remember standing on top of an F-14 at the Intrepid museum in NY and thinking that the aircraft are larger in real life than they seem in photos.
You do a great videos! No soup around, just exact facts and explanations to almost last detail. You forgot just to mention the extendable glove vanes at the front sides of the wing roots. Just a detail but interesting. Thanx for a great content and have a great fun by making such valuable videos! 🙂
And..... you forgot to mention the forward Canards, situated in front of the USS Kitty Hawk decal on the plane, and you can see them deployed on the very last picture on your video.
Another cool video.. watching it made me remember a fun little fact I meant to share on your F-117A video.. If you recall you mentioned how the aircraft used parts from different aircraft. Well one of those parts was the nose wheel steering damper. It came from F-14's. I remember way too many times some dummy in the USAF supply system would delete the part from the computer system because it carried a US Navy NSN , same thing with the Fan over-speed tester for the F404 engines.
I've got a STARMAX F14 TWIN 70MM EDF radio control version 1.4m in length,currently languishing on top of the wardrobe in rest up mode..keep up the good work..
Cool video. I love the VF111 livery with the sharks mouth. My fav Gen-4 fighter is the F-14. What a beast. I’m seeing Top Gun Maverick on the 30th. Looking forward to it. 😎
I scrolled through the comments but didn't see it, but the probe on the very tip of the radome is not the pitot tube- it's the alpha probe, used for measuring the aircraft's angle of attack. It was installed beginning with Block 90 aircraft. Earlier Tomcats had a metal cap instead.
Thanks for an excellent video! One minor correction about the aircraft carrier itself is that no US aircraft carrier built since World War II has had more than four arresting gear cables or "wires", thus no F-14 has ever trapped aboard a ship with more than four. The latest design, the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, has only three. (Source: personal experience as a Grumman Aerospace aircraft field engineer, a.k.a. tech rep, with US Navy squadrons operating at sea over a period of 16 years on seven aircraft carriers ranging from USS Midway (CV-42), Forrestal-class carriers CV-59 and CV-62, Kitty Hawk-class CV-64, the USS Enterprise CVN-65, and Nimitz class carriers USS Nimitz CVN-68 and USS Carl Vinson CVN-70.
Another fantastic video! Ward Carroll, a retired US NAVY Flight Officer was a RIO on the Tomcat. He has a great channel that talk about his experiences in Naval Aviation and the F-14 in particular.
such an amazing and capable aircraft , it did what it was designed to do and did it very well . the tomcat st21 would have blown the superhornet away in every way if they went with it
3:12 No F-14 ever flew home with a wing blown off although one lost a wingtip in a collision. An Israeli F-15 landed with only one wing after a mid-air collision. 3:25 There are only 4 arresting wires on a carrier (3 on the new Ford class) not 14.
Thanks for watching everyone! Don't forget to give the video a thumbs up...etc. Have you seen the latest Top Gun 2 movie? What did you think?!
Thanks for the detailed walk around. Not seen the movie yet… hopefully next week. I don’t think anything will ever be as good as the opening minutes of the original with full surround sound.
When mitsbushi g4m Betty bomber used by imperial Japan in ww2
Thanks for another great video hoping to see Top Gun 2 tonight.
I haven't seen it, but will watch it eventually. I can recall watching the original on a date with my girlfriend(later my wife) in High School while we were both dependents of parents stationed in Italy.
I saw Top Gun 2 last night and enjoyed it
Paul, as an ex F-14B Plane Captain and Mechanic with VF-103, I would say you were pretty much spot-on on everything you stated. Good Job! I would like to add, On the F-14 B's/Ds with the GE engine, the pilots could not go full throttle on a bolter as there was this system/functionality called "RATS" which stands for "Reduced Arrest Thrust system". the GE engines on the B's and D's were so powerful they could cause the arresting cable to fail and snap. If the Hook was down and the weight-on-wheels switch was closed, the engines would only go to 90% to avoid the snapping cables. I know because I worked on this. Of course the A-Models did not need this. Thank you for the awesome video as usual! Please check out some of the USS Saratoga/F-14B videos on my channel!
Thanks Deene
Hey Deene, I'm a Ogden too.
Maybe I'm your long lost Aussie cousin?🤔
My Great....Great Grandfather did live in New York sometime in the early 1800s between settling in Australia.
I'm actually a aircraft maintenance engineer (A&P) in the airlines, and as a strange coincidence my uncle was a aircraft mechanic on the USS Hornet during WW2. 🙂🇦🇺🇺🇸
I was an AD and Plane Captain in VF-51 in the 80s with the F-14A. VF-111 was our sister squadron and we went on the USS Carl Vinson. That was great times. Nice video, brings back great memories.
Small price to pay to get rid of those dreadful P&Ws, though.
This is a rare find. This Grumman F-14 Tomcat is from VF 111, which was the Air wing attached to the USS KITTY HAWK CV 63, when I worked the flight deck then.
Yep, The Fighter Wing with the same shark nose. So I'm sure I handled this very plane many times, as an 'Aviation Boatswain' Airman when I was in V-1 Division.
God bless USA & England. Brothers forever. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧
Fascinating! Fwiw, my uncle (my late mum’s brother) was one of the original designers of the F14. He worked for Grumman for decades, and still (retired) lives in Bethpage New York, where Grumman used to have headquarters. In the late-1960s/early-1970s, the F-14 was such a hot and complex project, we didn’t see him for weeks at a time. He was always working, 24/7.
Wow so he would have worked with my Great Uncle Admiral Connolly. Small world.
@@Finallybianca I will ask him if he recalls the name.
@@wotan10950 Thank you for sharing your story. That sounds awesome. The F-14 is truly a work of art, even with it's flaws. I'm glad I got to see Top Gun 2 as it made an appearance in the second movie. :)
Awesome how you explain the functions of the various design aspects! That's what sets these videos above others. Thanks
Love it! My fave swing wing fighter jet of all time. Had a treasured, lovingly painted Airfix kit of one hanging from my ceiling, when I was younger
Let's not forget, "The Final Countdown". "Fear the Bones".
Everytime I see the F-14 Tomcat, I can't help but hear the Top Gun anthem in the background.
dun-dun-dun, dundundundun dun-dun, dundun-dun, dundun-dun, dundun-dun-dun,
Such a good song.
The best looking fighter aircraft of the modern era, IMO
One of my all-time favorite aircraft! This was a pleasure to watch and learn.
Hey Paul, you hit on a winner with this bird. Great video mate, one of my favs. Yes I am a fan of A10, SR71, F117, F111 and others - but this one holds a special place. Oh, Space Shuttle was a pretty good one too! Ok, so military aviation fan, you got me. Cheers mate.
Visited this museum in 2017. What an amazing place it is. Any person keen on aviation could easily spend the entire day there.
F-14 in the VF-111 "Sundowners" markings. Beautiful kept display.
Oh it’s nice to see Pima air and space in this video. Been there a lot of times and went a few months back
My first duty assignment in the Navy was in 1972, at Naval Air Station Pt. Mugu, California. It was there that I first saw an F-14A Tomcat. They were testing and evaluating the Aim-54 Phoenix Missile System. My last assignment ended in 1991 at Miramar, then home to the west coast fighter squadrons, still flying the Tomcat. The latest F-14A+ And F-14D, unlike the original TF-30 powered models did not need afterburner for takeoff.
Don't rush these videos mate. 20-25 mins would be great
I was raised on a farm in western Kansas. When I was a teenager in the 80's, one day I was out fixing fence in one of our pastures. Our farm was on top of a hill on the side of a big valley.
I was about 25 yards from the corner post stretching barbed wire when a air force f16 or 15 came flying over the corner post, he missed it by only three feet!
I remember jumping to the ground because I wasn't sure if he was going to crash.
That experience made me not like being buzzed out on our farm. A couple of years later some guy in a puddle jumper, ( prop plain) thought it would be fun to buzz me while I was working.
He did it once then turned back to do it again.
When he was about ready to pass by me overhead i acted like I was going to toss my fence stretchers into his prop! He didn't do that again!
Paul, you are not only making Videos - You are making documentaries!
Thank you very much for sharing your interesting documentary with us.
My favourite fighter jet of all time. 👍
You've made my night Paul! I can't even remember how many scale models I made throughout my younger years! I was always on the lookout for them 😂
Such a great looking aircraft when it's wings were swept, yet it looked super aggressive when looking at it head on! A multi-role workhorse of an aircraft!
Thank you for an excellent tour Paul. You're the best Mate! ☺️
I was stationed at Pax River in the late 70's to early 80's. Worked defense contract there after my separation. Had a guy in one of the squadrons that was a F-14 pilot, also a US Naval Test Pilot School graduate as well as a fighter weapons school graduate. He was the exact opposite of what they portrayed in the ridiculous movie top gun, one of the most laid back people I've ever met. Then again most of the pilots at Naval Air Test Center Pax were graduates of Test Pilot School. FLY NAVY!!!
I remember the F-14 being the first model plane I built as a kid. Good memories.
what a coincidence, I just watched top gun 2 in cinemas earlier this afternoon and this pops up in the yt feed
I'm watching it tomorrow and can't wait!
Hey Paul to further your knowledge. You passed one cool feature that the F-14/A ONLY had.
During speeds of mach 1+. The F-14/A had "Glove Vanes". Located right before the wings. Incase anyone was wondering why there was a rectangle on the deltas.
Thanks for the extra info.
Hi Paul, What a beauty! I’m not a big Tom Cruise fan, however I’ll watch it on TV when released. Thanks for the tour. ♥️
What an aeroplane! and one of my favourites as well! thank you for the video Paul
I loved in top gun 2 when Maverick uses the thrust differential to turn the plane like with thrust vectoring.
Кот- один из немногих любимых самолетов! Особенно суперкот с мощным двухконтурным двигателем.
My favorite Airplane ever since. Thanks for all details in the video
Wonderful video as usual, Paul. This would have to be one of the coolest fighters of all time: fast, mean, and big. I had a 6-foot-long poster of an F-14 flying over USS Constellation in my room as a teenager. Another kid begged me to sell it to him. No deal.
The F4 Phantom. First Airfix kit I ever built. What a plane.
as a child. I built this model jet.
many times. good memories
the most important part was the "shark mouth " water color. very exact 💯
For me the F-14 Tomcat will always be the most beautiful bird and sexiest plane to ever flew in the sky.
A timely upload. Thanks Paul. Top Gun: Maverick did not disappoint. I found it excellent and emotional. Hey do you remember something about the admiral's daughter that Maverick had a history of a high speed pass?
On my podium of all times beautiful warbirds
I was lucky enough to talk my way into being allowed to climb the side of an F-14 when a carrier was visiting Sydney, Australia years ago. Got an awesome photo of me next to the cockpit with one of the ground crew helmets on.
Wasn’t allowed into the cockpit as you need to be trained and certified on the ejection seat. Also wasn’t allowed to take a photo of the cockpit which I thought was amusing given it was shut down.
Kittyhawk in 2002
the F-14 Tomcat has always been my favorite fighter I've had two scale models and even one for the G.I. Joe action figure
Najpiękniejszy myśliwiec na świecie. Szkoda, że już nie lata. Pomijając Iran. Takich samolotów już się nie robi. Dziękuję za film.
Excellent video as always Paul. Keep up the good work
Thanks 👍
Appreciate your work here, very informative, Great Video, Cheers!!!
Thanks Paul, this is a great video. I remember standing on top of an F-14 at the Intrepid museum in NY and thinking that the aircraft are larger in real life than they seem in photos.
It looks so beautiful. 🥲
what a beautiful thang of engineering
Although I live down the road from pima air and space and have already been there, it’s still cool to see your videos come up in my recommended
Very detailed! I love this video series of yours!
Excellent review and interesting. Good observation about the "hypersonic missile" hype.
You do a great videos! No soup around, just exact facts and explanations to almost last detail. You forgot just to mention the extendable glove vanes at the front sides of the wing roots. Just a detail but interesting. Thanx for a great content and have a great fun by making such valuable videos! 🙂
What a beautiful aircraft! Thank you, sir
My pleasure!
Great Documentary and I really enjoyed the tour.
Wow! I moved that squadron's "Show Bird" while they were on USS Carl Vinson. It looked just like that. God, I feel old.
Its also featured in Tom Clancys book Red Storm (and others like Hunt for Red October) so it was quite famous back in days. J.
Sooo cool, thanks Paul!
And..... you forgot to mention the forward Canards, situated in front of the USS Kitty Hawk decal on the plane, and you can see them deployed on the very last picture on your video.
Really interesting design spacing the engines so far apart!
Another great video Paul 👍🏻
Another cool video.. watching it made me remember a fun little fact I meant to share on your F-117A video.. If you recall you mentioned how the aircraft used parts from different aircraft. Well one of those parts was the nose wheel steering damper. It came from F-14's. I remember way too many times some dummy in the USAF supply system would delete the part from the computer system because it carried a US Navy NSN , same thing with the Fan over-speed tester for the F404 engines.
I've got a STARMAX F14 TWIN 70MM EDF radio control version 1.4m in length,currently languishing on top of the wardrobe in rest up mode..keep up the good work..
Amazing video. I was there few years ago. Greets from Germany
Awesome aircraft, one of my favourites, and interesting to note that it is still in use today. Really great inside mate as always.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Paul you timed it right with the new Top Gun movie out.
Interesting video thank you.
Awesome!... I saw Top Gun 2 the other day I loved it!.... another good one to watch is The Final Countdown.. cheers 👍🇳🇿
Cool video. I love the VF111 livery with the sharks mouth. My fav Gen-4 fighter is the F-14. What a beast. I’m seeing Top Gun Maverick on the 30th. Looking forward to it. 😎
these should be featured on the wikipedia pages!
I scrolled through the comments but didn't see it, but the probe on the very tip of the radome is not the pitot tube- it's the alpha probe, used for measuring the aircraft's angle of attack. It was installed beginning with Block 90 aircraft. Earlier Tomcats had a metal cap instead.
thanks for the extra info Chis. Where was the pitot tube located? I must have missed it?
Paul as always a fun vlog
Awesome! I've been waiting for this video!
Excellent Paul, as always.
Another great video, informative but still entertaining
Great job mate! Very topical with the new top gun film out
I like the “talk-o” of 14 arrester wires instead of 4 🙂
As an ex-Brit there are various US aircraft I wish we had,from Huey choppers to Tomcats,Eagles and Falcons.
Thanks for an excellent video! One minor correction about the aircraft carrier itself is that no US aircraft carrier built since World War II has had more than four arresting gear cables or "wires", thus no F-14 has ever trapped aboard a ship with more than four. The latest design, the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, has only three. (Source: personal experience as a Grumman Aerospace aircraft field engineer, a.k.a. tech rep, with US Navy squadrons operating at sea over a period of 16 years on seven aircraft carriers ranging from USS Midway (CV-42), Forrestal-class carriers CV-59 and CV-62, Kitty Hawk-class CV-64, the USS Enterprise CVN-65, and Nimitz class carriers USS Nimitz CVN-68 and USS Carl Vinson CVN-70.
I would add that the last 1 or 2 of the Nimitz class also only had 3 arresting wires. Have no idea why they changed that.
Another fantastic video!
Ward Carroll, a retired US NAVY Flight Officer was a RIO on the Tomcat.
He has a great channel that talk about his experiences in Naval Aviation and the F-14 in particular.
yeah, he has some great videos, well worth watching, I think he did a 'walk around an F-14' video too?
i think the f14 was nicknamed the flying tennis court, due to the huge area on top of the aircraft when looking down .
Great vid as always. Thank you.
Any time baby!
Love how it’s vf 111
An F14 pilot actually did an interview where he stated that even with a full weapons load, the under carriage of the airframe still produced lift.
such an amazing and capable aircraft , it did what it was designed to do and did it very well . the tomcat st21 would have blown the superhornet away in every way if they went with it
I was just there! I hope you took the tram tour.
Yep :)
1:15 'too close for missiles switching to guns' - Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
Very good!
Another great video!
Oh wow that's awesome! Great video. Now I can tell you that it's hard to do voice overs! You do it so well I have to give you props!😎🤙🔥
Thank you so much!
@@PaulStewartAviation No problem!😎🤙🔥
It was also famous in the sci-fi movie The Final Countdown. To me the F7U Cutlass was the F-14's father the only difference F-14 didn't crash as much.
3:12 No F-14 ever flew home with a wing blown off although one lost a wingtip in a collision.
An Israeli F-15 landed with only one wing after a mid-air collision.
3:25 There are only 4 arresting wires on a carrier (3 on the new Ford class) not 14.
Ops I did mean to say 4 arrester wires. Not sure why I said 14.😬
"There are only 4 arresting wires on a carrier"(sic)
Reagan and Bush - Nimitz class boats - only have three wires.
The targeting system on a f-14 could track up to 24 targets and network the information to other aircraft and to surface ships.
6:32 - whats the guy with big yellow leafblower looking thing doing?
Paul I hope you get this reference but the f14 did serve for a very very short period in 1941.
Hi Paul.
Dare I say that you are a "Top Gun" when it comes to making videos about planes ?
Excellent video, as always 👍
On top of the inlets, didn't they have slot's that could be extended, with the main wing's back ?
F-4 Phantom: Grandpa
F-14 Tomcat: Older brother
F-15 Eagle: Younger brother
F-16 Falcon: Adopted
グラマン社と言えば、Ｆ4Fワイルドキャットとヘルキャットと零戦や雷電や紫電改と空中戦をやった飛行機✈️の会社ですね！日本は、岡山県の水島の三菱重工でした、
一式陸上攻撃機も岡山県の水島で作られて来たそうです、あの山本五十六海軍長官機です、この爆撃機の同体に人間ロケット桜花🌸を搭載して敵戦艦に体当たりする特攻機を！
ですからよくアメリカ🇺🇸軍機が良く攻撃に来たそうです、
You took my breath away... 😄
Original Top Gun was F-8.
私は、初めてＦー14トムキャット多目的戦闘機をトムクルーズさん主演のトップガンを見て格好いいと思い大好きになりました、日本にも導入して欲しかったですね航空自衛隊にでも？
さすがグラマン社の戦闘機ですね、
This is awesome!..Thanks mate!! 👍🤟
Glad you liked it!
I love tomcat
Your quite the salesman!
🌏🇦🇺