F-14D Pilot Talks About His SCARIEST Flight in the TOMCAT | Interview Clips
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- Oral tells the story of a combat mission in the Tomcat during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Originally aired LIVE 8-3-2020 • TOMCATS! Interview wit...
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I designed the ASPJ installation as a struct. Designer at Grumman around 1985 or so. Glad to finally hear some feedback.
that is awesome! thanks for your work, it produced an awesome jet!
that’s pretty sick! a pilot flying an obviously info sensitive mission and the guy that designed the thing that saved his life is in the comments of the same vid
AN/ALQ-165 Airborne Self Protection Jammer, for those whos wondering the abreviation.
The ASPJ contributes to full-dimensional protection by improving individual aircraft probability of survival. The AN/ALQ-165 ASPJ is an automated modular reprogrammable active radar frequency (RF) deception jammer designed to contribute to the electronic self protection of the host tactical aircraft from a variety of air to air and surface to air RF threats. The ASPJ was designed to accomplish threat sorting, threat identification, and jamming management in a dense signal environment to counter multiple threats. The modular architecture supports internal integration with other avionics/weapons systems in a variety of aircraft. The ALQ-165, a joint venture between Northrop Grumman and ITT Avionics, is now in production for the US Marine Corps and Navy's F/A-18s and F-14. The ASPJ was selected by the USAF for a planned F-111 upgrade during the late-1980s, though this upgrade was cancelled when the USAF decided to retire its F-111s.
@@ramal5708 If I recall, it weighed something substantial…like 80 lbs. And we mounted it inside the LH sponson on vibration isolating mounts. I think there was a rack also. And a waveguide that had to pierce the nacelle wall and due to fire mitigation, had to design a quartz waveguide window to seal nacelle and be transparent to RF.
I always wondered what the purpose of the system was. Worked Block 40 and 50 Vipers, we didn't have the system but we did have the lines and CBs (all leading nowhere, capped off, CBs collared). Lot of young guys would come to me with "Hey this line's gouged, can you take a look?" And the end result would be "oh, it's ASPJ, dead system, there's no limit there."
Always wondered what it was for though
We want more of these with Oral. No names, no dates, just manuvers and reactions. My father worked on f-14's in the navy and they've always been my favorite jet. TOMCATS!!
Losing an engine certainly is some scary stuff. I was leaving Tyndall in a C-130 many years ago after a 2 week TDY at Tyndall with my guard unit. We had only been in the air for about an hour when the #3 engine became engulfed in flames. We had a full load of passengers, flight crew, spare parts, took boxes, a couple of spare F-106 engines, AGE equipment, luggage, and every fuel tank was topped off at the fuel farm before we departed for our 1400 mile trip back to OTIS ANGB.
The pilots were able to turn the red handles and put the fire out and we diverted to a guard unit in Tennessee. Thank God we were in a Tough as Nails Hercules. Great interview Mover. (Bill from Slidell)
Yeah, wasnt there a C-130 J that did a forced landing gear up in a field recently?
I'm not real far from LRAFB. I think my buddy's pool is a waypoint, especially in the summer, always a few flying over. "30 degrees left at the naked lady".
My scariest moment was after pulling a modest 4g at the end of a Cuban 8 was telling my instructor I nearly greyed out and he said “me too” 😳
Lmao! Nice
Probably scarier if your instructor didn’t answer because they had g-LOC’d
I love the way Oral goes out of his way not to give away to much information but still keeps the story very interesting thanks Mover.
We had a Tomcat ejection on the Forestall in 86 crazy, Oral has a gift in his oratory of his stories.
Just amazing how calm fighter pilots are when they talk about this stuff. I remember our JTACs always were almost relieved at American call signs operating in their airspace for CAS due to more stores and the willingness to use them especially the more Gucci airframes, I might be totally wrong here and if I am I apologise but some other alied pilots would sometimes ask if they could do "show of force" first and then attack if the contact persisted. However American pilots would be straight in there with danger Close, shooter shooter or bugsplat or what ever was required! Just ally as F. I think that's right it was 12 years ago (Herrick 8) and my memory is not good due to drinking all the beer all the time nowadays. Anyway enough of my waffle, thank you for your service and to all the other US Air Force, Navy and USMC pilots that provided close air support to British units in Afghan. 👍
As an American civilian .. I am glad all of you are on our side. Keep fighting the good fight Brit !
@@WilhelmofPrussia Dilly - Dilly! ^v^
Hard to beat the joy of knowing there are angels on your shoulder. And hearing them screaming into the AO
Great interview with Oral to bring back!
Hornets by mandate, Tomcat by choice.
He seems a really nice down to earth bloke. Not quite the massive ego I was expecting
Mover, can you adjust your mic lower in volume? You are super loud and your interviewers are always much lower in Volume. Thx man. Like what you're doing! TOMCATSSSS!!
Dar thumbnail tho! Hornet looks so small next to that gorgeous Tomcat
AWESOME! Glad to hear from the boys in the air!
At 4:25, It was a good thing he was flying the D model when he lost his right engine. If he had flown the A model with the Pratt & Whitney engine, he would have followed REVLON all the way to the deck after being advised by the tower to “climb!!”.
Oral, thank you for you service...
VF-21 and VF-213 avionics tech. 1992-1997. NSAWC contract maintenance 1997-2000
Reminds me of the stories A12 / Blackbird crews from the 1960s tell of their missions with SA-2s coming up like telegraph poles and seeing them not guiding as their ECM worked its magic, what the jammers did and how they worked is all declassified now of course and available online. In another 30 years we will be able to see how they worked in OIF :P
Takes big cajones to sit there trusting the egg heads have gotten their stuff right!
In our defense, we only yell “TOMCATS!” because we’re following your lead ;)
Seems like, for non-aviators, the Tomcat is always high on the list of coolest/most favorite plane (probably because of Top Gun). Is that true for aviators as well?
Like these interviews a lot
Thank you for your service,🇺🇸❤, bring em' back 🐱🇺🇸
Mover needs to do an interview with one of the pilots from the Gulf of Sidra incidents (either one of them)
I’d imagine it wouldn’t be as scary as being locked up by a brand new MIG 28
I’m curious as to what squadron and ship he was with during OIF, I was stationed on the USS Constellation CV64 as an Air Traffic Controller at the start of the war, wondering if I may have talked to him while guiding our boys back to the ship.
Can confirm not Kitty Hawk CV63. Our squadron flew A's..(we were doing...other stuff, so only a couple of squadrons of Planes onboard)
I named my boat Tomcat.
I have a video request for the air gestures pilots and ground crew use to communicate. I would very much like to know more about it and I'm sure others would too. If it's already done, please kindly point to it. Thanks!
HEY HI HELLO IM A GOOD PLANE.
Edit: oops caps lock was on and I’m too lazy to change it.
The best plane, it just breaks a lot ):
@@milspeccress8864 ur not wrong... but thx!
Agreed. I agree with @Wyatt Cresswell too...either way, I appreciate it flying over our house here in COS!
Was an Electrician on Tomcats 8 years, bad crossfeed valve? That AINT suppose to happen! :) VF-114 AARDVARKS MIRAMAR CALLY, VF-201 HUNTERS GRAND PRAIRIE TEXAS
Can you imagine if he was Cdr. David Fravor's wingman how that conversation would go?
To regular folks the getting shot at part would be the scary thing...
Fighter pilots...umm hmmm getting shot at, missiles, hole in my left wing, da da da....but then,... I was LOW ON GAS!
(because yeah...that sorta makes everything else work...)
That story sounds familiar, im sure ive heard it somewhere before where something like that happened.
What are you saying in your intro and what does it mean?
I'm afraid to ask how "Oral" got his call sign; anybody....?
It's a play on his last name because his last name sounds like pleasure.
The real deal dudes 👍🏻
Have you ever thought about interviewing Paco Cherichi.
There a video of 2 f14s vs 2 Libyan mig 23s . That got shot down by the tomcats
The Persian Cats are still the king of the middle east miraculously
I need somebody from Grumman to give me an accounting of what ordinance materiel never reached Iran We will not let the Cat die Go Cat Go
What would be awesome is if Mover did something like Vigilance Elite and had a cool little studio and a chair where he invites colleagues down and talks with them, about them for 5 hours. Honestly, that would be awesome 👍🏼
How cool would it have been if his story started out as "Back in 1986, in the Indian Ocean, flying off of the Enterprise....."
Hey mover, check out Ward Carroll’s channel. Definitely someone you need to speak too!!!!
Sir please tell me where JF 17 stands is good jet for PAF or it still needs improvements pleas reply
Fly the DCS JF-17, the Jeff will make you proud
0:37 of course Tomcats. Nobody cares about the Hornet 😁
Borenet. ;)
LOL wonder how he got his callsign!
oral....lol
Do Navy, Marines and Air Forces Pilots ever working together 🤔
Yes.
Argentine low flights reaction!!!
Hey-Skipper.... what is a cat stroke ?
I'm betting you looked that up too and got nothing but Cat Health Advice? lol
Think about it. What might cat' be short for on a carrier?
@buddymax46 We're wondering how a Stroke comes into it. As they were discussing Engine Failure too.
@buddymax46
What's a Richard, and why don't you advocate being one? Why oughtn't you be considered one yourself?
O7 Oral
React to Newly Released "Combat Approved" Su57 documentary from Russia. They're claiming that they can beat F22 and f35 Because it's more sophisticated
Its Russias first venture into designing a stealth aircraft. Ironically, prior to the fruition of Su-57 felon, pro-russian think tanks claimed stealth didn't work. Still, their approach and inexperience to creating a true stealth platform shows due to the sheer size, 3D thrust vectoring (not stealthy), exposed irst pod, and a list of a number of other compromises.
Meanwhile, the US has had several generations of stealth aircraft, each one more advanced than the last. Right now they're in the process of developing 6th gen bombers/fighters (A.I., unmanned, laser weapons, self healing skin).
Conclusion: US stealth has pedigree, a proven track record, has been battle tested, and a history all its own. As of now, all 'russian stealth' is, is.... just hype. The US had the U2 (first use of ram, highest altitude achieved to try and evade detection), the sr-71(flew low, below radar, or high at mach 3 speeds to avoid it), the Quiet Bird (first true stealth design concept), the F-117 (first use of super computers to calculate the rcs of a plane from every angle), the B-2 (first stealth platform with curved surfaces), the yf-23 and yf-22 (first super sonic stealth jets), numerous stealth drones (some of which were copied by Russia), the F-35 (a true 5th gen stealth fighter/bomber), and soon the valkyrie and loyal wingman drones that incorporate A.I. and will work in unison with 4th/5th/6th gen fighters.
Russia still has along way to go. As if yet, their Su-57 isn't even production ready and won't be for some time regardless of whatever misinformation they put out there. Rule of thumb says it takes about 15-20 years to develop these technologies (F-22 and F-35 both approx 15 years). So, until Russia has a working fully functioning, working version, that has entered service, its all hype and nationalistic pride speaking. And even when it does, it will still be unproven.
TFFT
Eh, boring... bad guy country? It’s 2020... that planes been out of service for almost 15 years. Think your story could be a little less classified.
you was gonna blow up a WHAT
That pause when you clearly know that he is filtering through classified information in his head, selecting what he can actually disclose.
As a tanker guy, appreciate the credit for going above and beyond to help a fellow aviator. We did that stuff all the time. :) Great stories.
did he keep up with foreign relations as well?
Ha! Nice. You can be my wingman anytime.
Hahaha! And I'll clean em and fry em🤣
Emt: "I do cpr for a living!"
Combat pilot: "i fly a gun"
There really are levels to the cool meter.
They are job security of EMTs in bad guy country.
As a 20 year Paramedic, I absolutely agree with that statement!
My life is boring all around :(..
Medic/Corpsman: “I stack and unstack bodies” ;)
Combat pilot: “I stack bodies wholesale”
Good stuff! Due to an indication malfunction I took off in a GIV once with a 5,000lb fuel imbalance. That made for a couple confusing moments. Due to a valving issue, I got a fuel imbalance in a scaled down Mustang that required almost full aileron deflection and use of airspeed to control. That stuff is no joke.
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TOMCATS!
_TOMCATS!_
TOMCATS!!!!
T O M C A T S ! ! !
T O M C A T S ! ! !
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Nothing like losing an engine when the runway is coming to run you over!
Seems like a good reason to ask for the crooked runway. At this way you fall off the side of the boat.
I admire people these these two men. Intelligent, capable, and professional. I wish my mind could work like theirs.
TOMcATS!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Getting shot at and that kind of thing... haha. like it’s nothing! Oral is one cool dude.
Damn this was so awesome, I love stories like this I could listen to this stuff all day long. Just listening to him made me miss the Tomcat even more though, it was a fantastic aircraft there’s just no question about it 👊
In the Tomcat, there HAS to be a few stories. Last Tomcat I saw active was 2 guys, including a very young RIO, in El Paso getting fuel to make it to Monthan. I was flying a Lear 35 at the time and I can remember watching the FBO ground crew starting the Tomcat off of a hose and a Powerstroke exhaust. 🤣 No NTSB report, and they rocketed off full afterburner at our adamant "suggestion," so I guess they parked her at Monthan an hour or so later. Couldn't get over how young the RIO was considering transition at the time to Hornet/SuperHornet
Forever F14 tomcat my favorite plane ever
If it ain't leak'n It ain't Fly'n!!!!!!!
Most scared I've ever been in an airplane was sitting in the back of a regional turbo prop landing on an icy runway.. So yeah...major brass balls to combat pilots!
Don't forget those two zekes in the final countdown.
Rocket factory go *BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!*
What he said about ASPJ device it's an AN/ALQ-165 Airborne Self Protection Jammer, for those whos wondering the abreviation.
The ASPJ contributes to full-dimensional protection by improving individual aircraft probability of survival. The AN/ALQ-165 ASPJ is an automated modular reprogrammable active radar frequency (RF) deception jammer designed to contribute to the electronic self protection of the host tactical aircraft from a variety of air to air and surface to air RF threats. The ASPJ was designed to accomplish threat sorting, threat identification, and jamming management in a dense signal environment to counter multiple threats. The modular architecture supports internal integration with other avionics/weapons systems in a variety of aircraft. The ALQ-165, a joint venture between Northrop Grumman and ITT Avionics, is now in production for the US Marine Corps and Navy's F/A-18s and F-14. The ASPJ was selected by the USAF for a planned F-111 upgrade during the late-1980s, though this upgrade was cancelled when the USAF decided to retire its F-111s.
I am a pilot too I fly the new Turbo Jet 5000. My name is Rick Striker. I was once on a mission cruising in the clouds at 300 thousand feet and I saw ten enemy fighter jets coming at me. So I punched the power booster button and started to do my tactical maneuvers. Needless to say I took out all ten enemy jets. They made me a Top Gun commander now.
lol, 10/10
Oral reminds me of a Tomcat pilot I met at an air show in Berlin about a decade and a half ago.
Men like these two are and have always been my heros growing up.
that guy has freakin balls!
I would not want to fly a Tomcat with one engine!
Not a pilot but I do have a plane scariest moment, didn't gear wouldn't come down on passenger plane and crash land no front gear, I was 13, and at 46 I took my last flight i swear pilot thought we were in a fighter jet circle tight 180 nose down steep during fires near Oakland after that I just can't fly anymore
Mover what was the scariest incident when you were flying?
The day he realized he forgot his piddle pack.
@@andrewt.5567 what is that sir? And also is the Tomcat an aircraft that you need to work a lot to work for you?
@@Peterax788 It's what they use to go to the bathroom in flight.
I downloaded the F-14D flight manual from the internet. All 1024 pages of it. Good grief, there is a lot of stuff in there you need to know.
TOMCATS!!!
Could you recommend some books non- fiction and fiction on fighter jets and pilots alike. I already have all your books just looking to broaden my horizons
Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering by Robert L. Shaw
I just read "Phantom over Vietnam" It was very good, if I went to make a cup of tea I would find myself standing up keeping the book in my hand while I was doing it trying to keep reading as every time it gets to a point where things calm down it all goes mental again! Good read it was
@@komsomolac thanks
@@L0r0x_o thanks
Flight of the intruder (book from wich the film was token) and final flight both from Stephen J. Coonts.
Wenn 4 Migs 28 are coming..!
Nah...... they're just T-38s.
TOMCATS!
Oh, c'mon, the only pilots that have a scary story to tell after Nam are the ones that FACED American pilots...
How did you like the TomCat as compared to others you'd flown
Has the tournament winner gone up against the AI pilot yet?
Mover - Are you still flying at all? Reserves? Airlines? Cops?
Yup 👍
He looks like a old tomcat pilot..
*_Oral Mover_*
*lol*
TOMCATS!
Does anyone know or which is true, the reason why F-14 was retired? was it because its too expensive to maintain, or because we don't want any parts to fall on Iran's hand?
Lots of reasons. Too expensive to maintain is probably the biggest. The Tomcat is/was an old plane with old methodology, and aside from it being able to carry the giant 54 it doesn't bring anything to the table that the Hornet can't do, and the Hornet can do a lot of things the Tomcat can't.
@@hirumaryuei which makes no sense because the F-15 eagle is still in service today and they were only a year apart when put into the field. It was the swing wing technology and maintenance like you said that ultimately did it in. Grrr
This is just awesome I'm lost for words please tell me there's more
Love it Mover thanks for bringing Oral...