@@cornelius2993 Yea i bet, when i was at Edwards AFB i used to love watching the 14's and the F4's takeoff and land. Edit: Thank you for your service o7.
Just a sexy plane hands down especially with those Pratt and Whitney J30S turbo fans Mach 2 as they say Haulin the Mail. When they engage the Delta wing setting and kick n Afterburners and make any sudden banks 4/5 gs easy skin rolls back on your face. To hell with being a Radar Intercept Officer give me the Stick . Just a sexy plane this was replacing the Phantom F4 when I was n The Marines 71. Da Nang Much more nimble n dogfight and more payload. We salute you Gruman F14 hell of a job.. McDonald Douglas did a pretty good job with the F18 alittle less Mach but a great carrier based fighter.
From a RAF Brit.... A fantastic combination of good music, a fine example of U.S engineering, long live the TOMCAT....! Good memories of my career, sometimes in the U.S....
Brilliant video, great music too. Awesome aircraft, awesome active career. A tribute to all the professional crews that worked with the mighty Tomcat. Purrrrrrrrrrrfect.
I really enjoyed this footage. I can't believe these great crews stay in the air for so long! Wow. I also liked to see the crews having a sense of humor and enjoying what they do. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!
At 03:44, the only evidence ever filmed that the Tomcat was actually... a three seater. Other than that, this video is absolutely superb. Good mix of humour, boring cruise sequences and down to earth action. Made by soldiers for soldiers. I totally bought it. Thanks!
God the F-14 was such a beautiful looking bird! Even 40-odd years after it was being designed it still look a million bucks (especially when compared to that horrible F-35)
A crew chief basically is the boss of an aircraft, its his plane and the pilot is just the person who flies it. Kind of like an armorer giving a soldier a gun, its the responsibility of the armorer as to what happens to that gun.
Loved the year I did at MCRD Marine Corp Base San Diego by Coronado Pacific Fleet based alot of their tonnage there. Then off to DaNang Plenty of F4 Phantoms flying tree top level and loud u could see black exhaust dropping down from behind and could tell they were tree top level slow airspeed
I was on the USS America CV-66. The first carrier to transit the Ditch aka the Sues Canal. It was stressful for the whole crew. We all had our jobs to do and all were done with practice and pride. We did the ditch!!
@@scottyweimuller6152 1, The Tomcat is from the 70s, but the video has D Tomcats, which are from the 90s. 2, Even the old Tomcats had very advanced autopilot systems, including Altitude hold, Ground track, Automatic carrier landing, and limited auto-trim.
@@scottyweimuller6152 yup even the f14B has autopilot systems, like the guy above me said. (I know because i fly the f14 as a professional licensed pilot in DCS..)
@@scottyweimuller6152 You obviously didn't google anything. Because moron the f-14 had/has autopilot. In fact if you had, you would know that autopilot was first demonstrated in France on June 18, 1914. Thank's for playing though.
Wall Stretcher JPSC not exactly... he had not really autopilot as it is understood today. The only thing he could do was to maintain the attitude of the flight. For example: u cant turn the HDG knob to turn the plane, but u can switch a button in the right moment of bank for mantein this grade of bank turn. Same thing for altitude, u cant insert a flight level value, u can just switch the button in the right moment of pitch (up or down) for mantein this attitude of flight
Though the F-14 is retired, I still regard this fine aircraft as the torchbearer of naval aviation. The Tomcat, being able to carry a whopping load of firepower while being incredibly nimble was a true and proven workhorse without rival or peer. I loved everything Grumman Aircraft ever built, dating back to the F-4F Wildcat and the F-6F Hellcat of WWII. They were the hallmark of naval aviation even back then.
"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." -Arthur Ashe Everyone from Top Gun might need these advices.
That video was amazing! thank you for posting that, it not always glamorous for those guys and seeing a video like this giving an inside view is awesome! if your the owner or know the owner thank you!
Really interesting. How many re-fuels would you need on a mission like that? Do you ever get cramp being stuck in the same position for so long? At least on a long haul flight you get to walk around. You have my respect
I was armoured and drove recce because I didn’t have the brains to fly so I feathered the tillers of a piece of armour like I was flying a Tomcat. I wasn’t and I knew it but every time I climbed into the hatch and put on my crew guard and plugged in my headset and started the engine I imagined I was doing it in a Tomcat.
The Gruman F14 was the perfect plane for carrying huge payload with becoup automatic firepower coupled with the RIO pilot properly painting these early MIGS with state of the Art radar and saying hello from 2 or 3 miles or more . It was long over due since the Phantom ,F4 didn't cut the mustard. I started seeing these very fast and maneverable . I was n the Marines 71 saw these works of art showing up . Then came another carrier based fighter with plenty of Moxy. McDonald Douglas delivered n Spades. Great Planes and a great time to grow up. The F18 with 2 J30 turbo fans tremendous amount of thrust and Gs. This plane talked the talk and walked the walk
@@windshearahead7012 I agree with you... no one cares about DCS when you have this awesome footage. Hugh, Oliver... we don't care because DCS is a game... and I'm not in a bad mood either... just don't care about your game. Why are we here? Because we want watch the greatness of a fantastic aircraft. Not some noob playing a game. And as always, have a nice day.
What a beautiful bird the F-14 is... IT is sad that it retired; but I guess it got old and the maintenance was getting a little crazy for it. I hope they are well-preserved in museums.
There are a lot of F-14s on display around the country. Most of them are on display outside of an aviation museums or at the main entrance of military installations. There are a few F14s that are inside museums and out of the elements. I'm not sure how long an aircraft can last outside in the elements just sitting there. But at least the F14s that are inside will be okay. it would of been nice if the government or a private company kept a couple of them in flying condition. to do demo flights at air shows that'd be cool to see one flying.
I agree. I think it is also bullshit how the F-14 is being replaced by obsolete jets like the Super Hornet, when the F-14 could have been given a modernization upgrade and would be cheaper and better than the F/A-18.
The Super Hornet isn't actually obsolete, but the A-C variants of the F/A-18 are. Let's also remember that the F-14 is a 40-year-old airframe and that upgrading avionics etc to provide capabilities for AIM-120D support etc is costly to develop and more costly to roll out.
if i would be priviliged enough to stand on the side somewhere (safely) on a Carrier watching opps,i'd be gazing my eyeballs out all dayyyy....what an incredible coordinated effort from the entire crew to make all this happen.so many things have to work in unison alone,it's just amazing. like setting the steamcatapult for every lauch.every plane's specific weight,fuel load,ordinances,extc....everything gets calculated on the fly....during the take off sequence,if the plane idles too long on the deck,the fuel burned is being deducted just before take off.
6:50 - MMMmmm, Donuts...aughhlaughhhjllaughh. Just kiddin'! Livin' the dream ain't all excitement & glamour. Sometimes it's just a grind and plain hard work. Tomcat Drivers....Awesome aviators flying legendary aircraft.
asparwhite86 in a video of the f-35 wrote here, this is big S ... Only Nortrop-Grumman is capable of producing military aircraft in USA. F-14 best an YF-23 bestest. And i am not fun of Americans
+Perf Tulsa just googled. done of those concepts were just awesome. esp this i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/o8b2qugblywmys2sytku.jpg but I think the hard beefy edges of the F14 make it look more sinister. and therefore. better lol I mean there in not an aircraft in the world that looks nearly as cool or mean as the F14 looking at it straight on from the nose.
LMAO! Good video. Love the snoozing, bathroom break, and Sudoku. Those all questions normal people will have! What really goes on up there? Is it 100% adrenaline 100% of the time? How do you go to the bathroom? Do you get to eat? Great video! Thank you so much. I served on the USS JFK CV67, ships company, during the late 70's. The F14 was fairly new then. It is an amazingly beautiful bird. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
That last shot with full afterburner and wings coming back, banking off into the sunset, is so very cool. Too bad we don't have the big bad 'Cat anymore. Such a wonderful aircraft.
Hey!!! The F14 TOMCAT is not dead!!! Iran still use them to this day!!! They're even thinking about making new ones after tearing down one of them, and understand how it was made. LONG LIVE THE F14 TOMCAT!!!
@@kevinmandrile5074 Those are early A with lot of limitations. Completely out dated as today's standards (even from the 2000's ones). But yeah, they still fly
@@jowenjv4463 Well, at least they're better than nothing. I didn't expected you to respond since your comment is five years old now, thank you, greetings from Italy 😉👍🇮🇹👋❤
@@kevinmandrile5074 Yes. Fuck 5 years now... Holly shit. Times goes on so fast. Thanks for the Kind words, cheers from France. And by judging your profile pic', give some love to the 'Cat in DCS.
I love all the flight sequences! like seeing the crew routine! Eating, observing, some down time to work on a puzzle and the cool part is getting some sleep too…a friend of mine said “you can sleep on a tactical jet”? I said yes… autopilot and setting waypoints and if there is a problem and alarm will sound off and wake you. I presume that’s the it works,,, if someone wants to clarify that…please do
I was on, the last cruise of the f14. duck under the wings on your way to chow, every day. 64 ft of combat porn. Whats even better, is tying yourself to the railing on the port side slq 32 platform, at the end of cats 3 and 4... it drops with both engines literally in your face.... good times
I was born in Virginia Beach next to Oceana Air Base then moved to Baton Rouge then n the Marines 71 saw plenty of the F14s from Miramar east of Coronado I was at MCRD Base San Diego great days Bro
Being a young kid back then around the plane on the flight deck was very impressive I've around big machines in my life time and the TOMCAT beats em all
MrNackel well, when I googled "in the goo" and "clouds" or "weather" "or turbulence", I didn't get any results. But then when MrSDCA1904 told me it was Gulf of Oman, suddenly I get tons of results. Lots of other sites using the phrase "In the GOO" with "Gulf Of Oman" in brackets. I think you're wrong.
This fantastic fighter just need a pair of more powerful engine to beat any newer model. After 37 years still in service in Iran air-force, still over performing their newer Russian fighters!
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. The Russians build jets with different attributes. As with the American military, they always go for bigger which means less agile. The Russian jets are far more agile since they are smaller and lighter. To be honest, in todays age, the platform is becoming redundant, it is almost all down to the weapons systems now. Range and stealth is everything.
Jimbo Jones agree, I'm thinking of necessity of piloted planes! Drones are less costly and safer to fly, pilot can have his cup of coffee and snacks while flying the fighter...
Hate to break it to you but Iran has no new SU aircraft they would rather use cheap Chinese fighters. The F14 is my favorite aircraft followed by the SU30 mainly for what India did to the USAF in 2008 and 2012 with it. Total annihilation.
Actually McDonald Douglas proposed 3 new versions, 1 with new engiens same airframe, another one new airframes engines and the last was a completely a new airframe with new thrust vectoring engines, improved aerodinamics, new canopy, avionics.....anny of the options where cheaper than to design a new aircraft (f-18) but our genious goverment opted to ho with Boeings f-18 wich the original was a total disaster and had to redesign the whole aircraft (f-18 super hornet)
The only aircraft which possessed the capabilities to shoot down an SR-71 was the F-14 Tomcat, that could use its AIM-54 Phoenix long range missile against the fast black plane.
In the 80- the J-37 Viggen was equiped with RB-71 Skyflash with a speed of mach 4+. But in practice it still means a headon shot is the only way. In teory a shot from the JA-37 could hit if it came from the front and below SR-71. So if the SR-71 flew at top maxuimum altitude it wouldnt work.
So we developed a weapon (AIM54) to be sure we had something powerful and fast enough to shoot down the fasted plane in OUR own arsenal? Thats like Apple writing software to crack the user access code on their own devices to better help the FBI spy on its own citizens. ... Добро пожаловать, Россия
Nick Boulakis in all likeliness the RB-71 wouldn’t have been able to compensate for the 7-8K knot closure rate between the missile and the Blackbird and souls have simply missed
The AIM-54 was an unreliable system. While it might have a chance if the attacking aircraft happened to be in the flight path of the SR-71, in most cases it would not come close.
Have jets accidentally been pushed off the carrier when being moved around the deck? Whenever I see them moving I get uneasy with how damn close to the edge they get
Please never take this clip down - its spiritual for me... the mission with the song is sooooo good!!
I had to find it again after first hearing it 10 years AGO!!!!
@@888berg my tbm
im going to second and third that notion!
just download it people
I completely get that from this too.
Watched this video on repeat as a 10 yr old kid. Somehow made it to the naval academy. Nice recruiting
Those that piloted the F14 are so lucky to have flown such a legendary machine.
Despite the love for aviation and this legend of a plane I'm happy that I never dropped a bomb anywhere.
@@cornelius2993 Yea i bet, when i was at Edwards AFB i used to love watching the 14's and the F4's takeoff and land. Edit: Thank you for your service o7.
F14 still serves with Iran 🇮🇷
The last scene, with those wings swept back - throttles to zone 5 and banking right into the sunset
Nothing more beautiful
im agree, it makes me an orgasm
The wings swept back is attack setting Delta Wing
That is so epic. It’s literally flying off into the sunset. A final farewell
Just a sexy plane hands down especially with those Pratt and Whitney J30S turbo fans Mach 2 as they say Haulin the Mail. When they engage the Delta wing setting and kick n Afterburners and make any sudden banks 4/5 gs easy skin rolls back on your face. To hell with being a Radar Intercept Officer give me the Stick . Just a sexy plane this was replacing the Phantom F4 when I was n The Marines 71. Da Nang Much more nimble n dogfight and more payload. We salute you Gruman F14 hell of a job.. McDonald Douglas did a pretty good job with the F18 alittle less Mach but a great carrier based fighter.
@@lajack5273 actually it's not. It's a feature to reduce drag, as airspeed increases. Much like the F111
From a RAF Brit.... A fantastic combination of good music, a fine example of U.S engineering, long live the TOMCAT....! Good memories of my career, sometimes in the U.S....
Everything about this video is perfect. Music? Perfect.
Editing? Perfect.
Camera angles? Perfect.
Brilliant video, great music too. Awesome aircraft, awesome active career. A tribute to all the professional crews that worked with the mighty Tomcat. Purrrrrrrrrrrfect.
I really enjoyed this footage. I can't believe these great crews stay in the air for so long! Wow. I also liked to see the crews having a sense of humor and enjoying what they do. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!
At 03:44, the only evidence ever filmed that the Tomcat was actually... a three seater. Other than that, this video is absolutely superb. Good mix of humour, boring cruise sequences and down to earth action. Made by soldiers for soldiers. I totally bought it. Thanks!
That penguin has better opportunity than most of us.
He is in a cockpit with the heat signature of my anus under a heavy curry regiment under a war zone filled with surface to air and god knows what else
kübrick D
just can't get enough of this video :D probably watched it about a 1000 times now and it never gets boring.
God the F-14 was such a beautiful looking bird! Even 40-odd years after it was being designed it still look a million bucks (especially when compared to that horrible F-35)
Watched this video for the first time i think 7..or 8 years ago, and still amazing to watch it today, congrats...
I wish they would update the Tomcat and bring it back into service!
I wish they would sell them used to ordinary people for fun.
azerovc the reason they weren’t surplussed is because the F-14 is still operated by Iran and they don’t want them to get replacement parts.
It was too expensive to make. thats why it was never attempted.
@@tailpipe2712 F35 sucks big time.
Your wish is stupid
Awesome vid. F14 is simply the best naval plane ever! The pilots were too funny!
Yas yas Very Funny!!😁😁
Hands down one of the best videos on UA-cam. Thank you.
I love F-14s. Too bad they couldn't keep them in production and retain them in fleet service. They were the best part of any airshow.
They serve with Iran 🇮🇷 still
One of the best videos to have ever been uploaded to UA-cam. Great music, great look into life inside an F14 on mission.
Makes me so proud to be an American seeing a video like this. I was a C-5 crew chief from 83 to 94.
stop lying
Pedro Henrike Why do you think he's lying?
You can't just lie about something like that he problably was a piolt
I piss on your 'Muricunt pride. Ugh. The time for 'Murica to collapse has come.
A crew chief basically is the boss of an aircraft, its his plane and the pilot is just the person who flies it. Kind of like an armorer giving a soldier a gun, its the responsibility of the armorer as to what happens to that gun.
After all these years, this is still one of the best music videos ever. Keep it here for ever please.
@@Shahpurpower must from a gay ear 👂
@@101kevinh no one love this kind of songs but gays , a gay response to me lol
@@101kevinh stay off George Michael 🤣
@@Shahpurpower congrats 🎉
I love F14 -Tomcat. Is legend jet
me too
Same here.
The US NAVY: Awesome service; awesome plane. Thanks for your devotion to our country.
Semper Fi from the good old solid ground. Salome
Loved the year I did at MCRD Marine Corp Base San Diego by Coronado Pacific Fleet based alot of their tonnage there. Then off to DaNang Plenty of F4 Phantoms flying tree top level and loud u could see black exhaust dropping down from behind and could tell they were tree top level slow airspeed
Superb footage and excellent music to accompany it. Love it!
I was on the USS America CV-66. The first carrier to transit the Ditch aka the Sues Canal. It was stressful for the whole crew. We all had our jobs to do and all were done with practice and pride. We did the ditch!!
I miss the F14. Such an amazing machine. Defended our Navy for decades.
I made the song. Glad its come this far :)
@@shae_sterling thanks for your song, it works perfectly !
one of my favorite if not most favorite video on youtube. please don't ever take this down!
And here I am, back again 9 years later lol
Long live the F14… Such a beautiful aircraft like the L1011. A machine ahead of its time. I hope the IRIAF continue to fly these for some time
For a 7 hour trip.. autopilot must be a lifesaver lol
@@scottyweimuller6152 1, The Tomcat is from the 70s, but the video has D Tomcats, which are from the 90s. 2, Even the old Tomcats had very advanced autopilot systems, including Altitude hold, Ground track, Automatic carrier landing, and limited auto-trim.
@@scottyweimuller6152 yup even the f14B has autopilot systems, like the guy above me said.
(I know because i fly the f14 as a professional licensed pilot in DCS..)
@@scottyweimuller6152 You obviously didn't google anything. Because moron the f-14 had/has autopilot. In fact if you had, you would know that autopilot was first demonstrated in France on June 18, 1914. Thank's for playing though.
Wall Stretcher JPSC not exactly... he had not really autopilot as it is understood today. The only thing he could do was to maintain the attitude of the flight. For example: u cant turn the HDG knob to turn the plane, but u can switch a button in the right moment of bank for mantein this grade of bank turn. Same thing for altitude, u cant insert a flight level value, u can just switch the button in the right moment of pitch (up or down) for mantein this attitude of flight
@@scottyweimuller6152 Haha, what an idiot. Doesn't know autopilot existed long before 1960. Durr!
RIP Goose
I would require both naval flight officers Goose is a film
Iceman is best pilot.
@@FinnDoerner ai enjoyer huh?
One of the most Beautiful looking fighter plane ever made...
Not one of, THE
hey kid do not forget about the MIG .. our brothers in hate ?? on the other side ??
Z3RO R3B3LL10N f16 is better
Pilot Bravo yeah...single engine and fucked if the motor is fodded. At that point their redundancy is out the window.
THE most beautiful looking fighter jet ever made.
Though the F-14 is retired, I still regard this fine aircraft as the torchbearer of naval aviation.
The Tomcat, being able to carry a whopping load of firepower while being incredibly nimble was a true and proven workhorse without rival or peer.
I loved everything Grumman Aircraft ever built, dating back to the F-4F Wildcat and the F-6F Hellcat of WWII. They were the hallmark of naval aviation even back then.
My fav F-14 video ... you guys are rock stars.
this music is perfect and the last scene
"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."
-Arthur Ashe
Everyone from Top Gun might need these advices.
lol yeah. goose fucking died over a few imaginary points.
The beautiest bird in the sky. "Anytime baby..."
;-( farewell Tomcat!
That video was amazing! thank you for posting that, it not always glamorous for those guys and seeing a video like this giving an inside view is awesome! if your the owner or know the owner thank you!
Really interesting. How many re-fuels would you need on a mission like that? Do you ever get cramp being stuck in the same position for so long? At least on a long haul flight you get to walk around. You have my respect
Awesome video! Really shows you what really happens during a long flight.
I bloody love this video!! Always knew I should have been a Tomcat pilot instead of a tank crewman 🤣🤣
I was armoured and drove recce because I didn’t have the brains to fly so I feathered the tillers of a piece of armour like I was flying a Tomcat. I wasn’t and I knew it but every time I climbed into the hatch and put on my crew guard and plugged in my headset and started the engine I imagined I was doing it in a Tomcat.
My father is friends with an F14 pilot.
Such a down to earth and human guy, but you know if the bugle calls, he will always come out swinging.
This video is 10/10. I salute you from Brazil.
Great job guys and thank you so much for your service!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those F-14 Toms were very pretty looking birds.
The Gruman F14 was the perfect plane for carrying huge payload with becoup automatic firepower coupled with the RIO pilot properly painting these early MIGS with state of the Art radar and saying hello from 2 or 3 miles or more . It was long over due since the Phantom ,F4 didn't cut the mustard. I started seeing these very fast and maneverable . I was n the Marines 71 saw these works of art showing up . Then came another carrier based fighter with plenty of Moxy. McDonald Douglas delivered n Spades. Great Planes and a great time to grow up. The F18 with 2 J30 turbo fans tremendous amount of thrust and Gs. This plane talked the talk and walked the walk
Yeah, thank God at least Iran is keeping them alive.
LONG LIVE THE F14 TOMCAT!!!
5:26 me in DCS
Romanische050 no one cares
Loooool
👍
Pilot Bravo mate if your in a bad mood don’t take it out on other people it won’t make it go away
@@windshearahead7012 I agree with you... no one cares about DCS when you have this awesome footage. Hugh, Oliver... we don't care because DCS is a game... and I'm not in a bad mood either... just don't care about your game. Why are we here? Because we want watch the greatness of a fantastic aircraft. Not some noob playing a game. And as always, have a nice day.
Track is by artist "The Sagittarian " & called "illumination "
Watching in 2024 anyone?
Aye Aye missing the Tomcat
Yes more than 10 times in last years
What a beautiful bird the F-14 is... IT is sad that it retired; but I guess it got old and the maintenance was getting a little crazy for it. I hope they are well-preserved in museums.
There are a lot of F-14s on display around the country. Most of them are on display outside of an aviation museums or at the main entrance of military installations. There are a few F14s that are inside museums and out of the elements. I'm not sure how long an aircraft can last outside in the elements just sitting there. But at least the F14s that are inside will be okay. it would of been nice if the government or a private company kept a couple of them in flying condition. to do demo flights at air shows that'd be cool to see one flying.
I agree. I think it is also bullshit how the F-14 is being replaced by obsolete jets like the Super Hornet, when the F-14 could have been given a modernization upgrade and would be cheaper and better than the F/A-18.
yes!!!
The Super Hornet isn't actually obsolete, but the A-C variants of the F/A-18 are. Let's also remember that the F-14 is a 40-year-old airframe and that upgrading avionics etc to provide capabilities for AIM-120D support etc is costly to develop and more costly to roll out.
Take a trip to the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, Florida. To my delight, they have one on display inside!
Came here for aviation, stayed for tomcats, returned for the music
Great video, and really good choice of music.
Gorgeous song, gorgeous plane
this is my new favorite video!!!
Sexiest plane ever made.
Yep sure is
Ahem....
A10
A10 and the F-14
Alex Trask why A-10? Not discussing whether it is one well thought plane, but sexy?
Radarcontact nope it's the crusader and Bac lightning (...and Buccaneer..).....and...and....and...
OUTSTANDING!!!!! Great tribute to a great plane. The F-14 is missed.
飽きずに何度もみています。tomcat そしてアメリカ海軍の皆様大変お疲れ様でした。
追伸
音楽もgoodです
if i would be priviliged enough to stand on the side somewhere (safely) on a Carrier watching opps,i'd be gazing my eyeballs out all dayyyy....what an incredible coordinated effort from the entire crew to make all this happen.so many things have to work in unison alone,it's just amazing. like setting the steamcatapult for every lauch.every plane's specific weight,fuel load,ordinances,extc....everything gets calculated on the fly....during the take off sequence,if the plane idles too long on the deck,the fuel burned is being deducted just before take off.
Flying that bird must have been an extraordinary experience. There's nothing like it anymore. :(
A great aeroplane... the F14 Tomcat will be remembered by many & by history as a rather special aircraft!
I miss the Tomcat. It's just not the same going into a museum and seeing one.
6:50 - MMMmmm, Donuts...aughhlaughhhjllaughh.
Just kiddin'! Livin' the dream ain't all excitement & glamour. Sometimes it's just a grind and plain hard work.
Tomcat Drivers....Awesome aviators flying legendary aircraft.
Serious love this video, watched it like 5 times now, great edit!
Best looking aircraft that ever took to the dky
Great video, best aircraft ever build, thanks for sharing!
Fuck the F-35. Just bring back the F-14... and make it able to transform into a mech!
asparwhite86 in a video of the f-35 wrote here, this is big S ...
Only Nortrop-Grumman is capable of producing military aircraft in USA.
F-14 best an YF-23 bestest.
And i am not fun of Americans
The real shitter is the Lightning II.
+Perf Tulsa just googled. done of those concepts were just awesome. esp this i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/o8b2qugblywmys2sytku.jpg
but I think the hard beefy edges of the F14 make it look more sinister. and therefore. better lol I mean there in not an aircraft in the world that looks nearly as cool or mean as the F14 looking at it straight on from the nose.
Robotech had F-14s like that.
+pumelo1
the best navy fighter ever madeF-14...--(0--0(--
LMAO! Good video. Love the snoozing, bathroom break, and Sudoku. Those all questions normal people will have! What really goes on up there? Is it 100% adrenaline 100% of the time? How do you go to the bathroom? Do you get to eat? Great video! Thank you so much. I served on the USS JFK CV67, ships company, during the late 70's. The F14 was fairly new then. It is an amazingly beautiful bird. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
That last shot with full afterburner and wings coming back, banking off into the sunset, is so very cool. Too bad we don't have the big bad 'Cat anymore. Such a wonderful aircraft.
Great song with this. Long live the Tomcats!😁😁😁
What is this song called??.
@@vinny78.68 I don't know but it's perfect for the Tomcats flying!!
I was V1 crash and salvage. ABH3.
who else is excited for DCS F14 !!!
Lincoln Osiris t minus 5 days
CVW-8 is ready to rock
@@ethanhiggins4887 1 day
Lol how do you like the f14?
@@smoke_eater_ Its AMAZING
What a beautiful plane ! Love F-14.. R.I.P. from france
Hey!!! The F14 TOMCAT is not dead!!!
Iran still use them to this day!!!
They're even thinking about making new ones after tearing down one of them, and understand how it was made.
LONG LIVE THE F14 TOMCAT!!!
@@kevinmandrile5074 Those are early A with lot of limitations. Completely out dated as today's standards (even from the 2000's ones). But yeah, they still fly
@@jowenjv4463 Well, at least they're better than nothing.
I didn't expected you to respond since your comment is five years old now, thank you, greetings from Italy 😉👍🇮🇹👋❤
@@kevinmandrile5074 Yes.
Fuck 5 years now... Holly shit. Times goes on so fast.
Thanks for the Kind words, cheers from France. And by judging your profile pic', give some love to the 'Cat in DCS.
@@jowenjv4463 I will my friend.😉👍
Awesome video, thanks for sharing!!
Best video on UA-cam for sure.
I often say this: The F-14 was an extremely beautiful fighter, and im very sorry i never saw one fly
Lol you guys are funny. Very beautiful aircraft thank you for serving.
I love the hand signals of the flight deck crews, impressive most impressive.
Yellow shirts, "shooters" are pilots- everybody gets a turn...
I love all the flight sequences! like seeing the crew routine! Eating, observing, some down time to work on a puzzle and the cool part is getting some sleep too…a friend of mine said “you can sleep on a tactical jet”? I said yes… autopilot and setting waypoints and if there is a problem and alarm will sound off and wake you. I presume that’s the it works,,, if someone wants to clarify that…please do
I remember watching this when I was 9. Dang what an awesome video
I was on, the last cruise of the f14. duck under the wings on your way to chow, every day. 64 ft of combat porn. Whats even better, is tying yourself to the railing on the port side slq 32 platform, at the end of cats 3 and 4... it drops with both engines literally in your face.... good times
I was born in Virginia Beach next to Oceana Air Base then moved to Baton Rouge then n the Marines 71 saw plenty of the F14s from Miramar east of Coronado I was at MCRD Base San Diego great days Bro
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*GREAT VIDEO AND FUNNY AT THE END!! ;-)* *WE APPRECIATE YOU GENTS...MORE THEN YOU REALIZE!!*
the opening sequence on the carrier and all the preparations is pretty dope
I Love all the signalling before launch, especially the signal to put the launch bar under tension.
Anyone else driven to tears because your fav aircraft was retired?
Emil Gillett no
the kind of swagger we need in the cockpit
I admire those people's courage.
The little Penguin is also participating in the missions! Bravissimo!
Es hermoso! Veo este vídeo como si fuera la primera vez y lo hago desde hace varios años ! It's beautiful🤗
I love F-14 tomcat my favorite jet plane.
Still the best looking warplane ever
This was literally the first video I’ve seen with an African American pilot. 👍🏽
Tijmen Vrijburg yea I saw him as well!
Being a young kid back then around the plane on the flight deck was very impressive I've around big machines in my life time and the TOMCAT beats em all
Great video. Thanks for all you do. Awesome.
Lol, you all the best. Super funny clips. Thanks to every single member of our armed forces for the not so happy days you go thru to keep us safe.
5:30 - What does he mean "in the goo"? I have never heard this term in flying before.
It means inside the clouds, bad weather, when visibility is reduced.
Nope. haha. Gulf Of Oman.
MrSDCA1904 well now that makes a bit more sense.
moeburn No I don't think, that it means Gulf of Oman. "It's not always easy, especially in the goo". They mean something like clouds or so.
MrNackel well, when I googled "in the goo" and "clouds" or "weather" "or turbulence", I didn't get any results. But then when MrSDCA1904 told me it was Gulf of Oman, suddenly I get tons of results. Lots of other sites using the phrase "In the GOO" with "Gulf Of Oman" in brackets. I think you're wrong.
This fantastic fighter just need a pair of more powerful engine to beat any newer model. After 37 years still in service in Iran air-force, still over performing their newer Russian fighters!
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. The Russians build jets with different attributes. As with the American military, they always go for bigger which means less agile. The Russian jets are far more agile since they are smaller and lighter. To be honest, in todays age, the platform is becoming redundant, it is almost all down to the weapons systems now. Range and stealth is everything.
Jimbo Jones agree, I'm thinking of necessity of piloted planes! Drones are less costly and safer to fly, pilot can have his cup of coffee and snacks while flying the fighter...
Sandy Blasty LOL I can just picture an F35 pilot shooting tanks while eating a packet of Wotsits
Hate to break it to you but Iran has no new SU aircraft they would rather use cheap Chinese fighters. The F14 is my favorite aircraft followed by the SU30 mainly for what India did to the USAF in 2008 and 2012 with it. Total annihilation.
Actually McDonald Douglas proposed 3 new versions, 1 with new engiens same airframe, another one new airframes engines and the last was a completely a new airframe with new thrust vectoring engines, improved aerodinamics, new canopy, avionics.....anny of the options where cheaper than to design a new aircraft (f-18) but our genious goverment opted to ho with Boeings f-18 wich the original was a total disaster and had to redesign the whole aircraft (f-18 super hornet)
Hi, I came over from RC Woodrurning and subscribed. Your channel is so dofferent to my channel. I absolutely love it. I am a South African Veteran.
F-14 the most beautiful fighter ever produced!
This is my favorite song!
Man, if only they didn't retire the f-14!
The only aircraft which possessed the capabilities to shoot down an SR-71 was the F-14 Tomcat, that could use its AIM-54 Phoenix long range missile against the fast black plane.
You forgot the Viggen
In the 80- the J-37 Viggen was equiped with RB-71 Skyflash with a speed of mach 4+. But in practice it still means a headon shot is the only way. In teory a shot from the JA-37 could hit if it came from the front and below SR-71. So if the SR-71 flew at top maxuimum altitude it wouldnt work.
So we developed a weapon (AIM54) to be sure we had something powerful and fast enough to shoot down the fasted plane in OUR own arsenal? Thats like Apple writing software to crack the user access code on their own devices to better help the FBI spy on its own citizens. ... Добро пожаловать, Россия
Nick Boulakis in all likeliness the RB-71 wouldn’t have been able to compensate for the 7-8K knot closure rate between the missile and the Blackbird and souls have simply missed
The AIM-54 was an unreliable system. While it might have a chance if the attacking aircraft happened to be in the flight path of the SR-71, in most cases it would not come close.
Whats the music
Thumbs down for music.
I am back here after 10 yrs. Still amazing :) thx!
Have jets accidentally been pushed off the carrier when being moved around the deck? Whenever I see them moving I get uneasy with how damn close to the edge they get