F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #47

In order to park an F-14 Tomcat, the wings must be swept back to 75 degrees. The wings are in “oversweep” as they overlap the horizontal wing stabilizers, allowing them to fit more aircraft on the flight deck.

The wiring that put the wings into this position broke “a lot”. Lieutenant Commander Walt Winters, a former F-14 Tomcat electrician with 12 years of experience on the Turkey, had the following to say about the wiring that would set the wing sweep to 75 degrees:

Sometimes you would have to jury-rig it. And you're doing this while you're on top of the airplane. It's still running, the engines are hot, and the [flight crew] are still in there. You've got panels open, and the boss is yelling over the loudspeaker, 'Get the wings back!' Jets are landing right beside you at 150 miles an hour. And taking off. And sometimes it's raining.

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From the photo series GFT (2013) GFT was a one-man electronics company in Treviso, northern Italy, producing radio transmitters and controllers from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Photographer: Colin Dutton

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Every now and then, quite out of the blue, it occurs to me that my teenager is OSHA certified (for residential electric). It always gives me a chuckle. God bless the Center for Career and Tech Ed and specifically Mr. R, the immensely patient electrical teacher.

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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #45

The F-14 Tomcat had 40 miles of electrical wiring, described by an electrician with over a decades experience of working on the Tomcat as being “old and brittle” with a tendency to “break and snap."