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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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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #52
F-14 Tomcat squadrons have done paint liveries for tours marking special occasions. VF-103 and VF-14 have both done this in their history.
In 1999, VF-14 Tophatters commemorated its 80th anniversary with a special F-14 Tomcat livery.
In 2004, VF-103 Jolly Rogers marked its last deployment flying the F-14 Tomcat by adding text to the iconic skull and crossbones that reads “The Final Mission.”
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #13
The F-14 Tomcat was affectionately nicknamed the “Turkey” due to its appearance when coming in for a landing on an aircraft carrier. During the landing approach there are tons of moving parts; the flaps and slats are out, the wings are extended, the air brake is up, the stabilizers are wobblin’ all over the place, and all four spoilers. To the pilots, Landing Signal Officers, and other personnel on deck, the aircraft appeared to look like the waddling, awkward flight of a turkey.
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #62
When the Navy Blue Angels were looking for an aircraft to replace the F-4 Phantom II in the mid-1970s, the program manager really wanted the F-14 Tomcat but did not want all of the weapons control systems, deeming them wasteful. After discussing with Grumman, it was concluded that the cost of producing an F-14 without the weapons systems would be greater than the cost to produce an F-14 with the weapon systems. They settled for the next best choice, the A-4 Skyhawk.
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #54
VF-211 Fighting Checkmates had a tradition where they would paint their CAG birds in festive colors when they are deployed over Christmas. This was per the request of the squadron’s CO, Dave “Bio” Baranek. The chosen design was a depiction of the squadron’s mascot, Brutus, in a Santa costume accompanied by a red and green checker pattern instead of the typical red and white.
#FFFOTD#F-14 Fun fact of the day#SOURCE: F-14 Association#F-14 tomcat#f-14#aviation#fighter jet#I like cool liveries#CAG bird#airplane#top gun#Dave “Bio Baranek
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #27
The back of an F-14 Tomcat was nicknamed the “Tennis Court” due to the sheer amount of surface area on the top of the aircraft. I guess it was so big they joked you could play tennis on it. The Tomcat is by no means small and is hard to miss in a dogfight, which is why it shares the nickname with the F-15 Eagle.
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #32
The marginal stall rate of the F-14 Tomcat with the wings swept back to 68 degrees is approximately 220 to 230 knots. This means that the aircraft had to maintain a minimum of 220 knots to remain in the air.
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #67
Each F-14 Tomcat squadron was allowed to paint two aircraft in color. One of them would be the “CAG bird”, the aircraft that featured the name of the Commanding Officer of the Carrier Air Wing (also known as CAG) on the side just below the canopy. These aircraft typically designated by Modex x00 (ie 100, 200, 300, etc), but that is not always the case.
In the image below, aircraft Modex 213 of VF-213 Black Lions was designated as one of the two aircraft they painted.
#huh ig they could only paint two?#I mean they don’t always paint two sometimes they only paint one#f-14 tomcat#fffotd#F-14 Fun Fact of the Day#top gun#aviation#love me some CAG birds#CAG bird
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #59
When VF-24 Fighting Renegades were disestablished in 1996, VF-211 Fighting Checkmates decided they wanted to pay tribute to their long-time sister squadron. On the tail of their F-14 Tomcats, they added the “fast check” symbol VF-24 was known for.
#I cried when I learned this yesterday#I wish I was joking#FFFOTD#F-14 Fun Fact Of the Day#top gun#f-14 tomcat#VF-211 fighting checkmates#VF-24 fighting renegades#fun fact#aviation
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #58
The F-14A+, later designated the F-14B, was first introduced in March of 1990 to VF-143 Pukin’ Dogs. They would deploy later that year in August to the Red Sea due to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
The main difference between the F-14A and the F-14A+/B is the replacement of the TF-30 engines with F110 engines.
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #11
The F-14 Tomcat was the heaviest and largest US fighter jet to fly from aircraft carriers. When full extended, it’s wingspan was nearly 64 feet wide.
The horizontal stabilizers, highlighted in green in the image above, are nearly 33 feet wide. The F-5 Tiger had a wingspan just shy of 27 feet wide which means the wingspan of the F-5 is shorter than the length of the horizontal stabilizers of the F-14.
#let that sink in a little bit#insane isn’t it?????#damn I really love airplanes#FFFOTD#F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY#F-14 Tomcat#f-14 is a big boy#top gun#queue can be helpful sometimes#I like planes#airplane history!#prob my favorite fun fact
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #50
Unlike Top Gun: Maverick, none of the actors’ in-flight footage was used in the final cut of Top Gun (1986). Those scenes were instead filmed in a replica cockpit capable of movements similar to those a pilot would experience in a real F-14 Tomcat to a much much lesser degree.
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #63
As far as is known, there has only been one all-female combat hop in the F-14 Tomcat. This hop was flown by pilot Carrine “Sweaty” (Palm) Cassidy and RIO Sarah “Nooner” Franson.
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #60
In 1998 during Operation Iraqi Freedom, VF-154 Black Knights flew the oldest F-14 Tomcats in the fleet from the oldest carrier in the Navy upon cross-decking to USS Kitty Hawk.
Cross-decking means the squadron was flying off of the USS Kitty Hawk despite not being a part of the Carrier Air Wing or initially deploying with the carrier. At the time, VF-154 was forward deployed to NAF Atsugi, Japan flying the F-14A variant of the tomcat. USS Kitty Hawk was commissioned in April of 1961, meaning she had been in service for 37 years. She would be decommissioned in May of 2009 after a total of 48 years in service.
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F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #55
VF-213 Black Lions were one of two Tomcat squadrons to have flight suits that varied from the standard green/tan. The NAS Oceana-based squadron wore royal blue flight suits, but they weren’t made fun of nearly as much as their sister squadron, VF-114 and their orange flight suits.
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