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Navy's 'Top Gun' jet takes final flight
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| 7/22/206
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Posted on 09/23/2006 8:40:26 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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A followup to the thread posted here - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1592052/posts
To: Pukin Dog
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posted on
09/23/2006 8:41:10 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Insultification is the polar opposite of Niceosity)
To: Ready4Freddy
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posted on
09/23/2006 8:41:39 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: Former Military Chick
Saw your Mar, 2006 post re: the last of the F-14 squadrons coming home.
Here's one on the last flight / official retirement.
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posted on
09/23/2006 8:42:37 AM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
To: Ready4Freddy
The F-14 was a badass plane... one of the best ever flown in combat.
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posted on
09/23/2006 8:42:43 AM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(Fiscal Conservative, Social Moderate. Understand?)
To: VOA
Thank you, VOA, I was expecting the link to work, but I guess the html in the body of the article prevented that. 'preciate the assistance, and I won't forget to add the appropriate html when posting articles again.
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posted on
09/23/2006 8:44:35 AM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
To: Ready4Freddy
Will they be sold to other countries? I believe there are still F-4s flying in remote corners of the world.
To: Ready4Freddy
Both the F-14 Tomcat and A-6 Intruder have been replaced by the Hornet. The McDonnel Douglas plastic lawn dart is the jack of all trades and a master of none. Both the Tomcat and Intruder were the undisputed masters of their role in Naval Aviation. Age of the airframes or ease of maintenance is really not the issue, it's politics, plain and simple. McD had a stronger lobby than Grumman. An F-14 RIO friend of mine said the Tomcat community used to describe the "bug" as "one plane, one pilot, one mission, one bomb, one way (no endurance)"
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posted on
09/23/2006 8:52:57 AM PDT
by
stm
(Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
To: Ready4Freddy
Can the F-18 carry the Phoenix missile? I don't think so.
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posted on
09/23/2006 8:56:42 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
To: All
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posted on
09/23/2006 9:05:44 AM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
To: Vinnie
Fleet defense A/C and missiles soon to be obsolete, and not needed. Laser AAA power and tech is now so high, they can destroy any intruder in 1/10 second. Shipboard is also excellent platform for Directed Energy AAA weapons; no horizon problems as compared to land warfare, plenty of electric power, stable platform.
This is not laser guided AAA we are talking about. This is the laser as the actual weapon. In other words; a ray gun.
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posted on
09/23/2006 9:10:38 AM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
To: All
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posted on
09/23/2006 9:10:39 AM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
To: GOP_Party_Animal
F-4.......physical proof that if you put big enough engines in a brick, it will fly.....
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posted on
09/23/2006 9:37:28 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(Israel, taking out the world's trash since 1948.)
To: MindBender26
"Shipboard is also excellent platform for Directed Energy AAA weapons; no horizon problems as compared to land warfare, plenty of electric power, stable platform."
I beg to differ. There are atmospheric heating effects on the beam which are worse near the horizon. Also, there's a small issue with toxic exhaust from chemical lasers. These are not simple problems to solve.
JSL
To: Ready4Freddy
Cool plane, bad movie. Probably the GAYEST military movie ever made.
All of my fellow freepers who were fortunate enough to fly one I envy.
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posted on
09/23/2006 9:49:04 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Dave? Dave?)
To: Ready4Freddy
Same rules that apply to other subjects should apply to something this pretty.
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posted on
09/23/2006 9:54:33 AM PDT
by
frithguild
(The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
To: frithguild
LOL, agreed! Thanks for the F-14 pr0n! ;>)
Same rules that apply to other subjects should apply to something this pretty.
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posted on
09/23/2006 9:57:58 AM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
To: Ready4Freddy
One thing I'll never see in my lifetime...the final flight of the C-130 Hercules, which first flew the year I was born.
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posted on
09/23/2006 9:58:44 AM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(Everyone should have a subject they are ignorant about. I choose professional corporate sports.)
To: Ready4Freddy
There are few aircraft that elicit such a strong bond between the air crew and the maintainers and the people who build them." While the Tomcat is/was indeed a fantastic airplane, which I think should have been modernized rather than retired, you'll find the same thing said about almost every airplane, even the trash haulers. Those who devote their lives to flying them, or keeping them flying, grow to love them.
Even "Old Shaky" the C-124. One of the guys in my old reserve unit flew those, and the nearly notorious (for killing its crews and passengers) C-133. He speaks with similar fondness of *both* of them.
C-133.
C-124.
The fabulous F-14 Tomcat. Literally armed for Bear(s). (Bear == NATO code name for Tu-95 (and follow on) bomber)
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posted on
09/23/2006 10:05:55 AM PDT
by
El Gato
To: GOP_Party_Animal
Interesting snippet from an article I just saw:
The only other country flying F-14s after today will be Iran, Pike says. Starved for spare parts, the Iranians struggle to keep the jets in flight.
Smuggled parts will be even harder to come by after the Navy retires the Tomcat.
"Nobody will be sorrier to see them go than the ayatollahs," Pike says.
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posted on
09/23/2006 10:09:48 AM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
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