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I picked up the Top Gun soundtrack and threw it in the CD player. Then I took the Tomcat and flew a pattern, making about the most beautiful arrest I have ever made. I dont know whether this is because its 00:37 here but it felt so right. I sat looking at the Tomcat for the past five minutes, thinking about its retirement soon, Top Gun and the moments when I flew her (in the sim, of course!). Then I decided I should share the moment. Put on Through the fire from the soundtrack and you'll understand what I am saying. Or maybe I am just tired.  ;D Enjoy!

yes, the tomcat is a very nice bird and its gonna be sad when they retire it.

but I still prefer 1 man aircraft .

Awesome shot by the way

gonna be sorely missed  :'(
damn superbug  ::)

Craig  8)

The best looking fighter in service today!! Thought about it a bit. Is going to be strange that in ten years or maybe even five years, when an FS model for the Tomcat comes out with the description that it used to be a part of the Navy's in Iran and the US.........

was very lucky to see the tomcat last year for the first time,nice aircraft.

was very lucky to see the tomcat last year for the first time,nice aircraft.

yes very nice but huge.

There's talk of the navy converting them to EF-14's. Don't know why since we have the EF-18, the EF-111 and so on..

yes very nice but huge.

When the F-14 was designed, the requirement was to have an aircraft which could carry 6 AIM-54 Phoenix missiles, along with long range and mach 2 or so speed.  It was the big required payload that drove the F-14 size.  The F-14 was the only plane to ever carry the Phoenix missile; the AMRAAM is the modern, smaller missile with equivalent performance.

Nice... now go and paint it in desert camo

AMRAAM is the modern, smaller missile with equivalent performance

not quite the phoenix has a better range. the amraam goes 34 miles the phoenix 74 head on.