fasteagle12 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 How complete are these museum cats? Cockpit intact? engines? The F-14A with VF-84 markings at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Michigan has a complete cockpit, but I believe the engines were removed (it has the nozzles, but the intake has a cover). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
naminami Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Hello, does anyone have the photos of F-14A VF-154 Desert Storm (161718) Black Knight CAG? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sig Saur & Son Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 Hello, does anyone have the photos of F-14A VF-154 Desert Storm (161718) Black Knight CAG? Don't you mean 161618? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brian P: Fightertown Decals Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Thought I'd get the Tomcat thread kicked back off. Just posted these over on the Tomcat Association forums for Dan Teker, but thought they'd look nice here too! VF-2 March 95 Fly-in -brian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shadowy_one Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 thats the 1st time ive seen that scheme in high viz...sweeet! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
raptor22 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Thought I'd get the Tomcat thread kicked back off. Just posted these over on the Tomcat Association forums for Dan Teker, but thought they'd look nice here too!VF-2 March 95 Fly-in -brian *coughdecoughcoughcalscoughcough* Quote Link to post Share on other sites
g0_command0 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Black Lion 210, the last tomcat I saw flying Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sig Saur & Son Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 Teaser from my next Tomcat Book. 161617 F-14A VF-21 US Navy Photo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Nice one Dave, we don't see to many shots of VF-21's transition scheme ... Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kale Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Teaser from my next Tomcat Book. 161617 F-14A VF-21 US Navy Photo I just bought the decals for this jet...i love the wrap around skunk stripe on the nose Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darren Roberts Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Wow, look how CLEAN it looks! I bet that lasted all of one day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hornet200 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I would like to thank Dave Brown and Brian P for there help. This is why i asked for the PICs Dan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sig Saur & Son Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 Dan nice work. Now, tell me the bureau number of this Tomcat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brian P: Fightertown Decals Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 (edited) EDIT-- I made 2 guesses, then really looked at the picture...-- Standard boat tail, old style wheel hubs... Something early...or something significant? -brian Dan - Sorry I can't read all the names on the large scan of the slide. If you want the ones I do have, I send them over. Cag/DCAG/Co/XO easy to get but not 100% about the other side...yet... Edited February 23, 2008 by Brian P: Fightertown Decals Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VFA-103guy Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Wow, look how CLEAN it looks! I bet that lasted all of one day. Nope...2 days. :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aggressor Supporter Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 That Tomcat on the production line is very interesting to see. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Nope...2 days. Yeah, Gloss Gull Grey resisted grime a little better than TPS ... Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sig Saur & Son Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 Here's 161617 on 2 November 2004 in Oceana's Boneyard. Really sad is it not? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcat27 Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Here's 161617 on 2 November 2004 in Oceana's Boneyard. Really sad is it not? I hate to see a tomcat like that are there anymore left at any boneyards or have they all been scraped Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Johnopfor Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 The real reason why they are called boneyards? Because the plane is about to get the shaft!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darren Roberts Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I'm doing a Tomcat for VA Beach nats that is based on something like this. I'm going to name it "Clinton's Legacy". :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Johnopfor Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I'm doing a Tomcat for VA Beach nats that is based on something like this. I'm going to name it "Clinton's Legacy". :D You mean, all fuselage, no wings and takes off vertically?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fuji Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 (edited) I'm doing a Tomcat for VA Beach nats that is based on something like this. I'm going to name it "Clinton's Legacy". :D WOW - Dude, Clinton had nothing to do with the Tomcat's demise. If you want to play the blame game, look no further than the office of our current VP, Dick Cheney. He axed the tomcat program in the 90s as SecDef during Bush Senior's tenure. He even had Grumman destroy all the tooling Edited February 24, 2008 by Fuji Quote Link to post Share on other sites
otis252 Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Maybe I'm missing something, what does ending production in 1990, have to do with ending flight ops 15 years later. Yeah, Dick Cheney's the "boogie man", but that's kinda of a stretch isn't? Heck, Jimma Carter, cancelled the B-1 program in the seventies, is he responsible for 30 or so going to the bone yard decades later? Just wondered. Chuck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sig Saur & Son Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 (edited) I'm doing a Tomcat for VA Beach nats that is based on something like this. I'm going to name it "Clinton's Legacy". :D Better rename it Dick Cheney's Legacy. It was Cheney who killed the cat. As for that maintenance man hour v. flight hour argument goes, I've found MMH v FH numbers in the high forties when the airframes were new. Found those numbers in various squadron history files stored at the Navy History Center. Mac Air won the battle in DC, Grumman didn't. That's why almost everything on a carrier flight deck will soon have the number 18 in its designation. Edited February 24, 2008 by Sig Saur & Son Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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