Dc F-14 - Page 5

***DC2002*** · August 31st, 2003

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Originally Posted by SniperWolfen

You mean this one.

i wont believe any1 who says thats real!@ lol - a plane that big is porhibitted to be that low, its a a 90% to 10% that he'll come out of it, and second of all - look at the water, and look at how cimetric the water shooting up is!

***Cdn_Chavez*** · September 1st, 2003

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Originally Posted by <2nd>rangers

Check this out...Its about what the F-14 pilot. thinks of the f-18.
Navy F-14 pilots speak vividly about the SuperHornet (in an Associated Press article in late 2001):
"Its the same old Hornet shit, repackaged, which was designed to keep the politicians happy." He said that "it can never match the Tomcat's long range, (Mach) 2.4 speed and predator mystique. (...) The capability the Tomcat has for speed is amazing, there is not another plane in the Navy's inventory that can come anywhere close to it. You look at the plane on the ground and it looks intimidating, it looks like something that is made for war. I hope the liberal fudge packing, (...) who thought the Hornet could replace this avaition masterpiece rot in hell."

Amen brother! I think the whole thing with the F18 that they gain, is easier maintenance, and fly by wire controls. The problem is that they give up the speed, range, firepower and coolness of the F-14! I don't think it's a fair trade.

The first F-14's were grossly underpowered, and had to refuel way too soon after take off, because they had to take off on full afterburner. They switched engines to address this problem in the -b to -d variants.

I've only seen the F-14 in flight once. It wasn't a demo.. it was in Victoria, B.C. and they were stationed in SanDiego. They were supposed to do a demo, but got called back for some official purpose or something. They did do something amazing though... took off in formation (3 of them) on full afterburner.. verticle take off.. were gone in like 5 seconds!!!!

..WOW... it was amazing.. they said they would be back in San Diego in like an hour!

That is tooo cool!

***Breadstick360*** · September 1st, 2003

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Originally Posted by DC2002

i wont believe any1 who says thats real!@ lol - a plane that big is porhibitted to be that low, its a a 90% to 10% that he'll come out of it, and second of all - look at the water, and look at how cimetric the water shooting up is!

YEP that's a drawing. Saw it at an airshow the guy who sold them said that it's a mix of comp. animation, and drawing. The B1 is able to operate at those low(maybe not that low) alttitudes. Thats is it's main roll (low level flight and bombing) They can operate at altittudes of 100-500ft. Sub sonic.(450-600MPH.)!! NUTZ what a rush

I have a tape here at the house that talks about the B1, B52, and the B2, but that was before that B2 went into service.

***Fezarella*** · September 1st, 2003

Sweet bet that would be cool to fly at that speed an hight

***DC2002*** · September 1st, 2003

it would be danm freeky and you would have to be a danm good and trusted pilot to do that - in any airforce!

***Fezarella*** · September 1st, 2003

yeah a damn good pilot an very trust worthy. in bf i like to fly the planes low to the ground i think its cool

***Spartan*** · September 1st, 2003

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Originally Posted by [WZ]Fezarella

yeah a damn good pilot an very trust worthy. in bf i like to fly the planes low to the ground i think its cool

yeah, but ya gotta be careful not to blow yourself up

***DC2002*** · September 1st, 2003

i love flying low! especially in vannila! (non-moded bf). but in dc with the f16 its pretty fun running people over! and btw - i love flying low with the choppers too, also knocking down a few people!

this happend to me a few days ago without noticing - i was flying sideways with the apache, pretty fast pretty low, over the gazala airfield, and suddenly i hear *pak pak pak" LOL - hit three people, accidently. but after that i just hit the ground cuz i was too low and flipped over

but i did manage to get out and snipe 2-3 people

***Spartan*** · September 1st, 2003

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Originally Posted by DC2002

i love flying low! especially in vannila! (non-moded bf). but in dc with the f16 its pretty fun running people over! and btw - i love flying low with the choppers too, also knocking down a few people!

this happend to me a few days ago without noticing - i was flying sideways with the apache, pretty fast pretty low, over the gazala airfield, and suddenly i hear *pak pak pak" LOL - hit three people, accidently. but after that i just hit the ground cuz i was too low and flipped over

but i did manage to get out and snipe 2-3 people

that is CRAZY!