No matter the age of this aircraft, will always be the coolest airplane of all!

@carlosblanco8-876

6 жыл бұрын

fuck yea

@FSEVENMAN

6 жыл бұрын

Drailton Lima de Andrade that's a hell of a statement dude I completely love the Tomcat but while it will be one of the coolest it is not the coolest but I can understand you saying that and it is a beautiful aircraft

@cobravenom39

5 жыл бұрын

FACT

@jackjones3657

5 жыл бұрын

No doubt, the iconic symbol of freedom and Western military supremacy for an entire generation.

@raymondweaver8526

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I'm still a fan of the Piston fighters of WW2

Watching the Tomcat will never get old!!

I'm former NAVY from the 80's, seen them daily. Still my favorite jet to this day. Big, fast, and super loud.

@garwhittaker3743

3 жыл бұрын

Agile ??

@tombrydson781

3 жыл бұрын

Lucas Talley not as loud as Britain’s. Vulcan

@spartanx9293

3 жыл бұрын

F/a18 was always my favorite

@ArKritz84

3 жыл бұрын

The only jet fighter I've ever been in the vicinity of are F16's a couple of times, and even they are unbelievably loud.

@jamesedenfield5039

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite plane of all time! I am jealous you had the opportunity sir!

I was in the active Navy from 74-80, 84-86. I was stationed at NORVA and F-14's used to come in and out of the airbase all the time. It was an awesome sight sitting at the end of the runway watching them. And they didn't land gently. No sir. It was just like a carrier landing. Down hard and fast!

@milch1877

Жыл бұрын

yeah those carrier landings arent soft in the f18 your suppost to just smack down no like back wheels first then front just slam into the carrier

@avis21X

11 ай бұрын

Pilot and RIO must have known you were watching and agreed to give you a show

@moonscar119

2 ай бұрын

year they practice carrier landing even on land. it's one of the hardest things to do so they practice it whenever they can

The F-14 Tomcat. Now that's a fighter jet

@WolfpackOne

3 жыл бұрын

They don't make em like that anymore

@2ZZGE100

3 жыл бұрын

@@WolfpackOne It was because of the cold war and threat of world war 3 that really pushed everything to the limit. Grumman had to suffer a lot of losses in the R&D of the Tomcat because of the extra-ordinarily high expectations and tight timelines that were placed by Congress/Navy. What came out in the end, was a phenomenal Mach 2.4+ fighter/interceptor that scared the enemy before even getting engaged with them. Just the sight of a Tomcat coming guns blazing, wings swept back at supersonic speeds with a full weapons load right at the enemy's nose was enough to scare them away.

@WolfpackOne

3 жыл бұрын

@@2ZZGE100 Yeah that's true, the tomcat would have a lot more kills if shooting down a fleeing opponent was not a war crime

@2ZZGE100

3 жыл бұрын

@@WolfpackOne Yeah, Iran had 160:5 documented kill ratio with the Tomcat.

@WolfpackOne

3 жыл бұрын

@@2ZZGE100 Oh yeah, that's a great ratio

It’s kind of amazing how iconic this airplane was and is worldwide.

I'm a former active duty Marine, I spent 2yrs on the Carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY CV-67 as part of the Marine Detachment. I would spend most of my off duty time at sea watching flight ops from the O-10 level. Nothin but F-14s, A6s, F-18s,Hawkeyes and Helos all damn day, it never got old. From '82 to 1984 was the most fun I had in the Marine Corps!

I lived a few miles from a US Navy base in the US in the 80's and used to frequently drive by the airfield. One weekend we stopped to watch a Tomcat take off. It screamed down the runway and more or less stood on its tail and climbed almost vertically at warp speed.

I absolutely love these F-14 Tomcats! My Dad flew these beasts! I love ya Dad!

@donnibrasko1

6 жыл бұрын

Richard Bass i bet you had the GI Joe Tomcat?

@KennyboyGM

5 жыл бұрын

What squadon?

@manueldelbusto725

5 жыл бұрын

Lucky bastard

@maxkonig559

4 жыл бұрын

Lol Make sure you tell your dad personally that you love him not us strangers. I can tell you're one of those brain dead ppl on facebook. Sometimes I'm just dumbfounded by what ppl say. There are things you do and don't do in life but only the top 10% have a higher cognitive ability to understand what that means.

@crodrc51able

4 жыл бұрын

Bass, many thanks to your dad for defending our skies. Hooah from this Soldier!

The Tomcat is still the best looking and most sexy plane I've ever seen. Legendary among the history of jet fighters!

_Nothing_ looks more purposeful than the F-14 taking-off on afterburner.

Can never get enough of this iconic jet! Just an incredible design!

Most beautiful fighter ever produced by Grumman Ironworks!

@asquare9316

5 ай бұрын

the Panther was close, but I agree with you.

When I was young... this was my absolute favorite plane... and when I see videos like this, I remember why it still is!

Back a few decades ago I was assigned to an F-4 squadron at NAS Miramar. My squadron shared a hangar with Topgun and a number of F-14 squadrons. A number of times when crossing the hangar or walking out on the ramp for some reason an F-14 would go to full AB only a few hundred feet from me. The end of the runway was very close and there was no mistaking what had just happened. The boom it made was loud, really loud and you could feel the explosion of power in your chest. If I wasn't expecting it, it scared the daylights out of me.

@halcyon7005

5 ай бұрын

you may have even wanted some butts!

I was a Navy Corpsman aboard a Guided Missile Destroyer in Norfolk and on my last few months of service I first saw the Tomcat at NAS Oceana 1974, a TRULY AWESOME experience!!!

I was waiting for the unrestricted climb part and wasn't disappointed.

favorite bad ass looking aircraft of all time. TOMCAT any day of the week. twice on Sunday.

@MacNmey

3 жыл бұрын

Phantoms had some bass ass stuff too.

I send my TC out, come back radar down, send it out again, computer not right, calfaxes popped. Lots of maintenance needed. Waiting at the fuel pits for what seemed like hours for Kitty to come home was awesome. But it was all enjoyable because you loved the bird. Nothing else like it, class of it's own. Those were the best days, .......gone forever. As long as my memory holds out and can remember those times,....

The f14 tomcat is honesty one of my favourite U.S jet fighters regardless of its age

The F-14 is my favorite, beautiful, powerful and just an awesome fighterplane. Glad they used this beauty in Top Gun !

Watching this (and hearing a full burner takeoff) still gives me goosebumps. It sounds like a rocket launch at Cape Canaveral as the tomcat goes straight up through the clouds and out of sight. AWESOME!

Takes my breathe away...

@DaveTaste

7 жыл бұрын

Good one 😂

@Man0fMeans

5 жыл бұрын

And "breath" even...

@Youre_Right

5 жыл бұрын

KTM on a highway to the danger zone...

@constantiniasmith4231

5 жыл бұрын

*proceed to have athsma

@RoodeMenon

4 жыл бұрын

bom...bom....

That F-14A was from VF-154 Black Knights stationed in NAF Atsugi Japan. I was a jet mechanic on that squadron 1996-1999. It was hard work but fun times.

I agree! Definitely the coolest and baddest-ass fighter jet of all time! Swept wing design and twin monster engine...absolutely incredible! Then F-22, F/A-18 Hornet, and F-15 Eagle. Never lucky enough to see any in action though. F-14 Tomcat will always rule!

A well-built flying battleship with style and performance...beautiful!

I went to an employees only airshow at Grumman, Calverton with my brother years ago. It was overcast so only an F-14 flew, afterburner takeoff, stayed low, and flew through the scud, it was an amazing sight. An F8F Bearcat that was there didn't fly due to the weather, but just seeing the F-14 fly that close to us was amazing.

I still remember the smell of the boat and these big beautiful birds. Used to stand near the fantail and watch the jet mechs test these engines at full burner, strapped down on the stands. The water would be blowing up behind the boat, not sure how far past us, but it seemed like a 100 yds or so! It was an amazing sight to see. Also loved vultures row at night!

@manyhammers5944

5 жыл бұрын

Kevin Wheatcroft Don't forget the double ear protection

@mikeames2768

3 жыл бұрын

If you only knew the agony bringing that airplane to fruition I was the first program manager from inception until the catastrophic second flight it was a great airplane regardless

@kevinwheatcroft

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeames2768 I bet that was a very satisfying part of your career!

The Tomcat will forever be the greatest fighter plane in history to me!

What an awesome aircraft this was. I used to sit near the end of the runway at Oceana NAS during my time stationed at NOB Norfolk watching F-14s.

@derekutley3614

4 жыл бұрын

Tom P Bet that was awesome and never got old

@kingcracker4275

3 жыл бұрын

I was stationed at Oceana and on the CVA 66 74 - 77 great fringe benefits walking among F4 and F-14 and a six intruder great time of my life

@alexhudson6732

2 жыл бұрын

My stepdad worked at Lockheed Martin right next door to oceana and would say that he would look at his watch and clocks and at exactly 8am on the dot every morning he heard the f-18s firin up for whatever they had planned that morning. The blueangels shows there were always a blast

F-14 Tomcat is one of my favourite but no matter what aircraft it is, those afterburners give me goosebumps everytime

Every generation should see this in person. The videos take away the excitement of seeing these turkeys fly in person.

Even with the stall prone TF 30 engines, a well flown Tomcat was the finest air superiority fighter of its era. The F-14D with the big engines and digital avionics could still hold its own today. It truly pushed the state of the art when it became operational. Not only deadly but iconic.

@mar3869

9 ай бұрын

The F14D was amazing, but it likely would have been replaced by the mid 2010s or at some point in the 20s and replaced with the Super Tomcat 21 which was a F-14 but even larger, with an even better engine, even more fuel range and payload capacity. It would have been amazing and far superior to the Super Hornet. Sadly backroom politics got in the way and the true potential of the F-14D and F-14 21 were never realized. Also the Hornet isn’t as good as they expected and they are looking to replace it and get another fleet defense fighter to contend with China.

@scupking

3 ай бұрын

@@mar3869The Super Hornet needs more power… Crazy that the single engine on the F-35 makes the same power as 2 on the Super.. The Hornet needs at least 50,000 lbs of thrust..

@2ZZGE100

26 күн бұрын

@@scupking True. It is very dragy since it was designed to be an air-to-ground platform first. It excels at slow speeds and air-to-ground, but speed and energy addition rate is not a strength of the Super Hornet. It was not designed to be an air superiority first fighter. Tomcats could do Mach 1.8 even at gross weight. It has trouble even going supersonic at 50 feet and needs high altitude to go fast. I have heard from a Super Hornet pilot that with tanks and bombs on, even a KC135 out-accelerated a Super Hornet in full aterburner.

Those Tomcats was the pride of the Naval Fleet once and performed so well, and he enemies probably was glad when they was grounded. I still remember when I saw them flying out of Miramar NAS and loved them so much. Even though I was in the Air Force, I was working on the C-141 Starlifter at the time and we airlifted Army troops to McChord AFB for Ft. Lewis.

Legend says every time a Tomcat takes off, Berlins' Take My Breath Away plays.

The hum of those General Electric F110 GE-400 engines as they taxi, it will never get old.

F-14 tomcat badass and number #1....forever.

@bestamerica

4 жыл бұрын

hi M V... ' yeaa that right keep up american airplane company can makeing many more new better F-14st airplanes

I was stationed at NAS Miramar 77-81 when the Navy was transitioning from the F-4 Phantom to the brand new F-14 Tomcats.

@MacNmey

3 жыл бұрын

The Phantoms were pretty bad ass too.

Beautiful plane. One of my favourites for sure. I haven't even seen Topgun yet. Maybe I should.

This is probably one of the best videos out there when it comes to afterburner sound!

I grew up a few miles from an Air Base that housed F-4 Phantoms and they were loud when they flew over our house... I believe they were attached to the 104th Fighter/Interceptor Squadron... you could hear them powering up all over town, loved every minute of it!!!!

@rosskrause3926

Ай бұрын

That sounds like the old Carswell AFB in Fort Worth Texas...my dad was with the 7th OMS out there on B-52's and sometimes F-4's.

It was perhaps in the mid 70s when I worked at GDS (Grumman Data Systems) in plant 40 (the HQ) in Bethpage, NY. I got a call from a friend of mine in Calverton. He said get out to the airstrip in 10 minutes, there’s a F-14 going to take off. So my boss and I went out there and stood near the edge of the strip. The F-14 taxied by, the pilot waved, we waved back. He turned around at the end of the strip right by South Oyster Bay Rd and did a full performance takeoff. We were perhaps a third of the way down the strip and he was already flying as he went by with flames from the afterburner just like this video. When he got to the control tower he went straight up and we could see the wings going back as he disappeared into the clouds. To say it was incredibly loud was the understatement of the year!

Always had little f14 toys as a kid, my dad is an air force pilot for the Brazilian airforce and he flew the mirrage 2000 and F-5 Tiger II and the A-1 AMX, but the f14 is still the coolest aircraft in this world

The F-14 is still the baddest plane the Navy every flew!!!

@tcar3654

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, the F18 was actually the runner up against the F16 for the air force contract....Just ask yourself, who was buddies with Dick Cheney? He cancelled the F14 Contract, they would have been better off militarily with the F14, but the Super Tomcat was slayed at about 100 million each more than 25 years ago, that's pretty steep when you consider what the alternative was, coupled with the fact that the USSR had collapsed and the threat it was designed to thwart was gone, and it was an expensive plane to maintain. But, it was a badass, It's still the premier plane in the Iranian airforce today.

@my-yt-inputs2580

3 жыл бұрын

@@tcar3654 It was the YF-17 not F-18. The YF-17 did eventually become the F-18 however.

@tcar3654

3 жыл бұрын

@@my-yt-inputs2580 Yes that's correct.

@kishascape

3 жыл бұрын

And the baddest plane Iran still flies. They used them to escort russia's tupolevs as they bombed Syria.

@2ZZGE100

3 жыл бұрын

@@kishascape I don't know if the Iranian F-14s are worth anything other than being flying desks, but sure back in the day they racked up 180:5 kill ratio against Iraqi MIGs, SUs, Mirage etc. The Iranian pilots had total air superiority over the region in the 80s. All of the credit is given to the Tomcats.

out of so many American built jets this one is still my favorite , She's so beautiful ,...!!

Every time I see this iconic plane, I get shivers! Took my two boys to Miramar in 1992 & they met a Tomcat pilot who put his helmet on both of them & let them sit in the cockpit, I think I was more thrilled than those two?

I still get the tinglies when I hear those GE mills, I still remember being right next to them on the flight deck when they go to mil power on the cats. There is nothing like it, it's like your insides are getting beaten apart and your senses go temporarily numb. Greatest feeling ever knowing those jets were there. I miss them greatly.

I was 12 when I saw my first F-14, at the 1980 Paine Field Air Show (Washington State). I was at my uncle's house about two miles south of the airfield, standing in his apple orchard. The plane did a wide arc and hit the afterburner for a high speed pass of the viewing area... and exceeded the speed of sound. Damn near knocked me on my ass!

@Daniel-lx1jd

5 жыл бұрын

Doubt it exceeded sound barrier

@timvertz3687

5 жыл бұрын

@@Daniel-lx1jd He said in 1980 which was a completely different time. I remember hearing sonic booms from time-to-time not only at airshows but even at home in the early to mid 80's. At home they would raddle the windows of our house. I haven't heard one for many many years but it wasn't uncommon back then at least where we lived in WA state.

@n.w.1803

2 жыл бұрын

@@Daniel-lx1jd It's possible he tickled the numbers more or less on accident, and then throttled back a smidge before crossing back over the airshow center.

@n.w.1803

2 жыл бұрын

@@timvertz3687 I remember, as recently as the late 90s, the occasional very late night/early morning thump coming from north of the Sacramento area. Always suspected that they perhaps didn't fully retire the SR-71s at Beale AFB quite when they said they did..

@hoghogwild

Жыл бұрын

@@n.w.1803 There were Blackbird flights in the late 90s Oct 9 1999 actually.

I miss this plane so much!!!

My Dad was a Navy F-4 Pilot, later a Aerospace Engineer at Grumman working on ECM for F-14. He got very sick (cancer) and had to leave his job. The base commander (Pt Mugu) Gave him a going away gift, A FLIGHT IN A TOMCAT!!!!

The big spacing between the engines looks so cool with the afterburner lit. I had a poster of an F-14 fully armed with AIM-54's over my bed when I was a little boy. Unfortunately I never got to see one with my own eyes. I had to make do with the Draken, Viggen and the Gripen. :-)

F-14 lives forever!

The all of a sudden climb is still amazing to see

Geez! Look at that vertical climb of the F-14. It gets up to 10,000 feet in around 15 seconds in full zone 5 afterburner. That is with full fuel and external drop tanks weight. The TF-030 might have been cr*ppy engines at very slow speed. high AoA because of their appetite for lots of air, but they made massive dynamic thrust at higher speeds on the F-14 with those big intakes/ramps with "ram air effect".

I spent 7 years in the USN as an AQ2 I only saw three full after burner takeoffs a F8, F4, and F14. The F8 was the best to watch the F14 was the best performance. The F4 was neat as well. I worked on A7`s and A6`s. Good old birds.

F-14's are always a legendary beautiful site!

Wow! amazing take off and a tribute to the good old days (of thunder)! Tomcats - gone but not forgotten! nice vid!💗💗💗

色褪せない魅力。

I watched a tomcat do a left hand roll right off the ground on takeoff once in okc during a air show, what power.

My favorite! I love that plane ... The most beautiful and skilled jet hunter ever built !!!!

One of the coolest birds ever made

Not gonna lie…that was the most badass 2 min of my entire week. Love the Tomcat…..

The most well proportioned fighter jet design ever. Just pleasing to the eyes.

The most beautiful fighter jet in the world.

@sccarguy8242

3 жыл бұрын

Hands down

@rickhunter6513

3 жыл бұрын

I can’t disagree as a fighter jet but most beautiful fighter “plane” of all time in my opinion, F4 U Corsair

@kamraam1464

3 жыл бұрын

@@rickhunter6513 naaa, mustang has my heart ;)

From 1996? Thank you for the beautiful quality!

Wow ...it's awesome to watch the take - off ....the sound is like music to my ears😊

I served in cruiser navy in the 70's and did a Med deployment. We operated with a couple of carriers. Remember the song "Take Your Breath Away" from "Top Gun". On a couple of occasions we were close enough to watch these birds doing night takeoffs and landings. Took my breathe away for real.

I will always love this plane more than any other.

Possibly the Greatest plane ever built Outstanding.

Loudest plane I ever heard at Yeovil Airshow in 90s when it went into what appeared to be an endless vertical climb!

Long island guy here. Watched these beauties fly over my house when top gun was popular.

Seeing Tomcats operating from U.S.S. Enterprise was always quite the spectacle!

I literally said "Holy shit... fuckin nice!" The roar of those engines is something else man

Growing up in Hampton Roads we would see them every day. Now, we see Raptor flying around every day.

I think we all know y we still love this jet, the thigh GAP 😂😍

And the "Top Gun" theme immediately plays in my head!

There has never been (and will probably never be) a better looking fighter jet.

How can anyone not appreciate her lines. She looks beautiful as Delta formation or her wings free.

Dearly Missed!

Such beauty! Tomcats Forever!

Ah, the Mighty Cat!!! I truly miss these cool jets!!!

Maramar 1975. My first experience seeing a Tomcat full burner takeoff ! Last of the Grumman "Cats" to fly!!!!

Simply a joy to watch such a graceful beautiful aircraft as the F14 .

Amazing larger than life jet one of the reason I went after aviation

My favorite plane of all time.

When you really need to leave in a hurry....use the burner! Tomcat looked badass sitting still...cannot say the same for the F22 or (gag!) the F35!

@tcar3654

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, but that Raptor is really a badass on another level, and it should be it was conceived about 4 years later so it better be!!!! NOT AS SEXY THO!!!!

When the first plane pulls up and you see the flames hitting the runway that was badass!!!

The F-14 has 50,000 American Horsepower. God I wish I had one with a good stereo and a racing stripe....

@jowenjv4463

6 жыл бұрын

DIOSpeedDemon despite 50 000 hp it is underpowered as fuck lol.

@bestamerica

6 жыл бұрын

DIOSpeedDemon The F-14 has 50,000 American Horsepower. God I wish I had one with a good stereo and a racing stripe.... ' hi DSD... yeaa america can make it more F-14st jetplanes with more faster speeding almost same as F-15se

@jowenjv4463

6 жыл бұрын

bestamerica Lol yeaaaaah make it more FAAAASTEEEEER... To be more USELEEEEEEEESS.. And more INCAAAAPABLEEEE !! America yeaaaaaaah

@bestamerica

6 жыл бұрын

hi JGBD... what reason no capable and no use... american air force, DOD, grumman company musts time to building many new F-14st planes... no retirement = no stopment

@jowenjv4463

6 жыл бұрын

bestamerica The F-14 was a pain in the ass in terms of maintenance. Many hours grounded, few hours in flight. It was a great plane in some regards, but it has big issues. One of them is it's weight. The so-called 50 000 american hp are not enough to give the Tomcat interesting thrust in combat. Underpowered. (The A+, B and D were little better however with F-110 engines, those are F-14A on this video.) The speed means nothing in many cases. Combat payload reduces significantly the max speed and max G's an aircraft can take. Mach 2.3 max speed on paper ? Expect Mach 1.2 very max with combat payload (it's the case of the AJS-37 Viggen, which was a very fast aircraft for it's time). And in an operational theatre, it's just useless to try to reach max speed because of the fuel consumption. Most aircrafts will fly around Mach0.6 to 0.8 to maximise their fuel consumption and range.

The F4 Phantom defined "Sexy" for fighters. The F14A Tomcat defined "Sexier" !!

@liftingweights

3 жыл бұрын

@C C It is an awesome awesome awesome aircraft ..with its awesome J17 engines ... would kick ass todays BLAH BLAH fighters with addition of minimal avionics and weapons systems. Check out ALL F4 videos on my channel ... BEEEG F4 FAN here

@2ZZGE100

3 жыл бұрын

F-14 proved to be the best thing Navy ever got. Still to this day, nothing replaced its robustness, depth of capabilities and versatility it provided to the Navy for 36 years. It was the true symbol of Navy air power.

@liftingweights

3 жыл бұрын

@@2ZZGE100 Agreed ! Best thing at the time. And and would still be a potent adversary today with upgrades weapons systems & avionics. Question would be its airframe maintanence requirements (Tomcat was 250 hours, current carrier jets are at 600 hours these days). Swept wings require sweepingly higher maintanence unfortunately... Range would also be an issue ...Cheers

@liftingweights

3 жыл бұрын

@@2ZZGE100 I am referring to the likes of the Super Hornet Block III kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5ynsdhxpKXgg9o.html

@2ZZGE100

3 жыл бұрын

@@liftingweights Agreed. Maintenance was high unfortunately. The AST-21 design was supposed to address that (and new upgrades), but it was killed off by congress. Cheers!

What an awesome aircraft the "Cat was. I was sent TDY in 2006 to Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberly near Brisbane Australia. While I was there, I was able to watch RAAF F-111s doing touch and go's as at that time they were still in service with the Aussie AF (they were later retired in favor of the F-18). The F-111 was another aircraft with a swept wing design that was so graceful and agile. When I was stationed at NOB Norfolk I remember driving near Oceana NAS and watching Tomcats takeoff and land. Still have a couple of the Navy F-14 bumper stickers which read "I love jet noise - the sound of freedom".

@asquare9316

5 ай бұрын

Anytime, Baby!

That’s a massive plane yet, the speed it carried on the vertical was insane for its weight. Just so cool!

TOMCATS! That beauty of an aircraft is GUZZLING through gas on that full burn. But that was absolutely awesome to see.

F14 always my favorite

Beautiful. To this day. 👍💪

Built at Grumman's facility in Calverton Long Island. I was lucky enough to see an F14 go to full afterburner while at SUNY Stony Brook back in 1976. There is a static display of one outside their former headquarters in Bethpage Long Island. Grumman at one time, was the biggest employer here and a lot was lost when they were bought out by Northrop....

I could stand there and watch that all fricken day until my feet hurt BADLY! 💘

Mi tomcat...nunca debe morir....es y sera grande...!!siempre!!...por toda la eternidadd...!lo amo!!.

Most badass looking fighter ever .

The f14 tomcat was the badass of all jets had them aboard the Kennedy when I served in 80s

When I was stationed in the UK, every time we had a transit F-14, F-15, or B-52 take off the Brits would be lined up on the highway photographing the takeoffs. Never figured out how they always knew.