Agreed 100%, Adversaries would simply not engage with USN F-14s. No matter how fancy the MIG was, they ran away as soon as they were able to ID a Tomcat coming right at them.
The whole airwing in pre-low-viz days. KA-6D's, A-7's, and Turkeys in shiny paint. They had personality then. Now it's one grey Hornet after another. I had a neighbor whose brother was a Tomcat pilot back in the '80's. He said his brother said they bent the airplane when the pilot stalled the plane during the dogfight scene.
@@pumelo1 - Old or new is irrelevant. It's performance that counts and the F-14 Tomcat outperforms all the newer planes the U.S. Navy is using. The F-14 Super Tomcat 21 is what now needs to be built. This Is What Grumman's Proposed F-14 Super Tomcat 21 Would Have Actually Looked Like -- www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29653/this-is-what-grummans-proposed-f-14-super-tomcat-21-would-have-actually-looked-like
"You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn’t any woman, and there isn’t any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be". - Ernest Hemingway August 1944.
the best F-14 video footage is from this movie, Top Gun and the movie Executive Decision. This movie is probably the best. I love it when they dogfight the zeros
this aircraft has a 'stance' or 'staunch' factor that no other will ever replicate-it looks like it just wants to get out and punch any other fighter jet in the face !!!
When the F-14 was in service, it proved itself and then some. From the middle of its career to near the end of its career, was able to carry out the same type of missions as the F-4 Phantom, when the F-4 was in service. January of 1981, VF-1 and VF-2 from the U.S.S. Ranger CV-61, were 5 minutes away from downtown Tehran, before they were told to abort the mission during the American/Iranian hostage crisis. A total of 4 aircraft carriers and 15 aircraft from each carrier, for a total of 60 aircraft took part in that mission and a total of 244 warships also took part in that mission. Stealth wasn't used back then, because the EA-6's and the E-2's had all of Iran's radar and radio systems neutralized and the A-6's had the air defenses neutralized and the Iranians didn't know that we were in their country, not until the mission was aborted. When Grumman built the F-14 in the late 1960's, by reengineering the F-111, they got it right and wasn't perfect. All the F-14 needed is the same acceleration as the F/A-18 Hornet and the the turning capability of the F/A-18, upgraded electronics, weapons system and radar absorbing paint and the engine that is more suitable for the F-14. Near the end of the F-14 service, was able to carry 20,000 lbs of ordnance.
LOL What are you talking about? F-14 could way out-accelerate the slow laggard F-18. F-18 was slow as hell. It was so draggy and lacked thrust, which meant it could not hit even Mach 1 with payload on while F-14 Tomcat (all variants) could go Mach 1.8 with 6 Phoenixes on because of the aero and thrust advantage. Once they hit 400+ knots, the F-18 would get left 4 - 5 miles. Even with the Tomcat having bombs with Hornets, Tomcats with bombs on could out-accelerate the F-18 with just a center line tank. The Hornets would fall behind getting out of the bombing zone and it is something that was always frustrating for Tomcat pilots. The Tomcats would have to slow down to let the Hornets catch up. While Hornet had a better slow-speed, high AoA one-circle radius fight, F-14 had a much super 2-circle fight over the Hornet and could sustain energy much better. Another way to put it, the Hornet could never win a vertical scissors two-circle fight from a Tomcat no matter who was driving, but if you put a 'Snort' in the Tomcat, he used to eat Hornets for lunch in a turning fight all day no matter who was driving it because he knew how to bleed the Hornet out of energy and get the electronics to limit AoA. Go watch 'Jungle' interview on it at the Tomcast podcast. He said his Super Hornet ate the dust of a KC-10 tanker even when he was in his full afterburner.
My Maintenance Supply Officer in VF-201 Dallas Tx..mid 80's came from Jolly Rodgers Lcdr Culpepper.. In fact he was in direct support of this movie i blv!
mann! so beautiful...These "machines"(including SR 71, TU144,Concorde, MiG 25+Fulcrum&Bison) from the past would be missed badly....These are the old school, raw machines who where more organic than these modern "flying super computers" . And I love to see that She still fly with Iranian air force. Hope she fly for a along time!!!
Tasnlation: My room is covered with photographs of the F-14 Tomcat. I love him. Traducción: Mi habitación esta cubierta con fotografías del F-14 Tomcat.Lo amo.
@daAnder71 A spanish speaking friend of mine once explained something about the language/culture that made sense. They often refer to inanimate objects as having a 'gender'. So naturally, that's going to literally translate to him/her/he/she rather than it.
Did this Gentleman do any music work on any of Namco-Bandai's Ace Combat programs? If this is a available music CD, I think I just found the soundtrack to use when I get ACE COMBAT 7!
I was wondering where you got the Film Footage. Nice job putting it together Good Audio and Video. I'm going to make it down to Tuscon Davis Mothan AFB only couple hours from Phoenix and go Visit my Babies [F-14s] this winter
![Anytime, Baby! - METEOR [HIGH-OCTANE F-14 Tomcat Tribute]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/iboN_JdEN0k/mqdefault.jpg)
A tribute to Grumman. It doesnt even look outdated. A bygone of our era.
Beautiful video! She was a queen! No girl has ever had as much grace, style and versatility.
BEST Final Countdown cut I’ve seen. High quality imagery w/o the distraction of the dialogue from the movie.
Lo mismo ví y me acordé de las escenas de la película
I miss the sound of the Vulcan
i love this fighter jet more than the f22 and f35
F35 is gay, f14 and f16 are the legends
@@arshiaaghajani8387 to me,f15 and f14 was legend...
@@arshiaaghajani8387 F35 is gay 😂😂
F22 Raptor ❤️
the raptor and lightning || are like an compact suv while the tomcat is like a dodge demon
Real footage like this blows away CGI.
they don't make movies like these anymore, or footage at all like that.
Yes
Best tribute to F-14. Love that movie too :-)
Remembering the best plane in the fleet!
Please keep making these tributes we all miss them
The most beautiful and the baddest fighter ever made. Period.
Agreed! F-14 pilots were also the best fighter pilots.
Your comment's on point.
Jep, my favourite too!
Beautiful and deadly at the same time.
And the only fighter jet carrying the Aim-54 Phoenix Missile.
A loss for the NAVY...
I agree with you 100%. 😎👍
Agreed 100%, Adversaries would simply not engage with USN F-14s. No matter how fancy the MIG was, they ran away as soon as they were able to ID a Tomcat coming right at them.
The whole airwing in pre-low-viz days. KA-6D's, A-7's, and Turkeys in shiny paint. They had personality then. Now it's one grey Hornet after another.
I had a neighbor whose brother was a Tomcat pilot back in the '80's. He said his brother said they bent the airplane when the pilot stalled the plane during the dogfight scene.
that is such a beautiful set of footage; combined with the music choice, it is outstanding!
Upgrade The Cat & Bring Her Back!!😺💗
Please
Its too old. The F-14 was upgraded to F-14D and is end. Time will not stop
@@pumelo1 - Old or new is irrelevant. It's performance that counts and the F-14 Tomcat outperforms all the newer planes the U.S. Navy is using. The F-14 Super Tomcat 21 is what now needs to be built. This Is What Grumman's Proposed F-14 Super Tomcat 21 Would Have Actually Looked Like -- www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29653/this-is-what-grummans-proposed-f-14-super-tomcat-21-would-have-actually-looked-like
That canopy needs a redesign for sure, horrible visibility from the cockpit.
Such a gorgeous plane
legends never die
TOM CATS FOREVER!
One of the best video compilations of naval aviation ever created, that is before Top Gun Maverick anyway.
Great photo and good edition....top plane, we are all going to miss it!
Well done. Great video of one of the sexiest fighters ever to grace the skies.
"You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn’t any woman, and there isn’t any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be". - Ernest Hemingway August 1944.
Simply, BAD ASS!...I'm glad they're on our side, man!!!
Both ost n jet are my favourites, deserves that like button
best navy fighter!!
Amazing footage and music!!!!
World had to wait only 50 years to see another better than the almighty F-14 jet fighter (F-35)…….!!!!
And jury is still out on that!!!
Just lovely! F - 14 Tom Cat Forever 👍💖
I was the radar shop supervisor in a Tomcat outfit. VF-301 at NAS Miramar.
What a beautiful machine! This and the Su-27/35 are my absolute favorites.
the best F-14 video footage is from this movie, Top Gun and the movie Executive Decision. This movie is probably the best. I love it when they dogfight the zeros
The final countdown had bad ass f14 scenes also
this aircraft has a 'stance' or 'staunch' factor that no other will ever replicate-it looks like it just wants to get out and punch any other fighter jet in the face !!!
Saw F-14, had to click. Then I saw SAWANO HIROYUKI???? Couldn't click more lol
I always love the F-14.
this is Gundam music, with F14 footage, epic
Beautifulest bird ever!!!!!
ユニコーンの音楽がいい味だしてるね
i love the song choice 😎🔥👍💪🤘
When the F-14 was in service, it proved itself and then some. From the middle of its career to near the end of its career, was able to carry out the same type of missions as the F-4 Phantom, when the F-4 was in service. January of 1981, VF-1 and VF-2 from the U.S.S. Ranger CV-61, were 5 minutes away from downtown Tehran, before they were told to abort the mission during the American/Iranian hostage crisis. A total of 4 aircraft carriers and 15 aircraft from each carrier, for a total of 60 aircraft took part in that mission and a total of 244 warships also took part in that mission. Stealth wasn't used back then, because the EA-6's and the E-2's had all of Iran's radar and radio systems neutralized and the A-6's had the air defenses neutralized and the Iranians didn't know that we were in their country, not until the mission was aborted. When Grumman built the F-14 in the late 1960's, by reengineering the F-111, they got it right and wasn't perfect. All the F-14 needed is the same acceleration as the F/A-18 Hornet and the the turning capability of the F/A-18, upgraded electronics, weapons system and radar absorbing paint and the engine that is more suitable for the F-14. Near the end of the F-14 service, was able to carry 20,000 lbs of ordnance.
LOL What are you talking about? F-14 could way out-accelerate the slow laggard F-18. F-18 was slow as hell. It was so draggy and lacked thrust, which meant it could not hit even Mach 1 with payload on while F-14 Tomcat (all variants) could go Mach 1.8 with 6 Phoenixes on because of the aero and thrust advantage. Once they hit 400+ knots, the F-18 would get left 4 - 5 miles. Even with the Tomcat having bombs with Hornets, Tomcats with bombs on could out-accelerate the F-18 with just a center line tank. The Hornets would fall behind getting out of the bombing zone and it is something that was always frustrating for Tomcat pilots. The Tomcats would have to slow down to let the Hornets catch up. While Hornet had a better slow-speed, high AoA one-circle radius fight, F-14 had a much super 2-circle fight over the Hornet and could sustain energy much better. Another way to put it, the Hornet could never win a vertical scissors two-circle fight from a Tomcat no matter who was driving, but if you put a 'Snort' in the Tomcat, he used to eat Hornets for lunch in a turning fight all day no matter who was driving it because he knew how to bleed the Hornet out of energy and get the electronics to limit AoA. Go watch 'Jungle' interview on it at the Tomcast podcast. He said his Super Hornet ate the dust of a KC-10 tanker even when he was in his full afterburner.
Most beautiful fighterjet
Is pretty, but Sukhoi SU-27 is most beautiful.
Wonderful vid.
Ohh my Tomcat 🖤
The F-14 is my favorite carrier based fighter jet along with Vought F-8 Crusader
The Tomcat and the Intruder were the boys. GREAT naval planes. With all due respect to the F-18 it cant properly fill the voids left by F-14 and A-6.
My dad, Ed Norton used to work on F-14s aboard "Big E" / U.S.S. Enterprise / cvn65 he was chief mechanic on many WesPac tours during the 70's & 80's.
I love F14
Love F-14 Tomcat from China. This fighter is the most beautiful plane that has ever been made in human history.
Beautiful!
Jolly Rogers, my fave squad.
My Maintenance Supply Officer in VF-201 Dallas Tx..mid 80's came from Jolly Rodgers Lcdr Culpepper.. In fact he was in direct support of this movie i blv!
mann! so beautiful...These "machines"(including SR 71, TU144,Concorde, MiG 25+Fulcrum&Bison) from the past would be missed badly....These are the old school, raw machines who where more organic than these modern "flying super computers" . And I love to see that She still fly with Iranian air force. Hope she fly for a along time!!!
Kinda weird the track by this Japanese genius of a composer suits the movie where Japanese Zeros got rekted by Tomcats so well.
Jolly Rogers squadroon onboard in USS Enterprise (CVN 68).
Wait Gundam unicorn music?! This made this 10x better!
Tasnlation:
My room is covered with photographs of the F-14 Tomcat. I love him.
Traducción:
Mi habitación esta cubierta con fotografías del F-14 Tomcat.Lo amo.
@daAnder71 A spanish speaking friend of mine once explained something about the language/culture that made sense. They often refer to inanimate objects as having a 'gender'. So naturally, that's going to literally translate to him/her/he/she rather than it.
Bravo...........the footage.
This is a kick ass vid! Long live the king of fighters! Any time baby!!
Best and the most Beautiful jetfighter EVER !!! #F14FOREVER
What a beauty figter!
The overall layout and aerodynamic layout of the F-14 is quite good.VF-84 is cool!
They're VFA-103 now
@@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy I know.
They don't make them like that anymore. This is my favorite plane.
Superbe.....Merci!!
Tomcat - the most beautyful fighter of the world
The greatest Tomcat aircraft of the US Navy
"Splash the Zeroes! I say again, splash the Zeroes!" 😄👍🇺🇸
i love this jet
Muito bom, parabéns. SHOW
Did this Gentleman do any music work on any of Namco-Bandai's Ace Combat programs? If this is a available music CD, I think I just found the soundtrack to use when I get ACE COMBAT 7!
Was a big movie hit in quite a few movies as well as shows like JAG
なんて素晴らしい映像でしょう！
“Splitting the throttles..” - TG:M.
The best Tomcat records in the hands of Iranian pilots in the war with Iraqi pilots
💪💪
Tom-cat’s, are the best fighters ever produced.👍
My favorite fighter
Well that was pretty effing awesome…!
I was wondering where you got the Film Footage. Nice job putting it together Good Audio and Video. I'm going to make it down to Tuscon Davis Mothan AFB only couple hours from Phoenix and go Visit my Babies [F-14s] this winter
Tomcat primary weapon: looks.
Tomcat Destroyed Saddam dreams
King Of Sky
beautiful plane
2:56 Awesome!
Final countdown better F14 flying action than TOPGUN without Tom cruise. and there is no LASER weapon shoot. ehehehe
Fantástico
Grummens is amasing
The most beautiful girl in the Sky.
My favorite plane ever made.
戦闘機最強のポジションを維持したまま退役した伝説の名機。
いつ見ても、どの角度から見てもカッコイイ❗️
! BCG rodrigo from brazil friends!
最高に美しい機体。この機が現役の時はまだ幼くて飛行してる姿が見れなかったのが残念です。
Goood video
I love that plane
Cool movie✈️👍. I saw it in on the big screen when it came out🎥... where has time gone? (pun imtended)
F14 عشقه
Phoenix never die!!
Super star in the movie TOP GUN
US naval aviation dominance has weakend without the F14!
Love this bad ass😊😊😊
Espectacular
Todo un Tomcat, hermoso como terrorifico
Defender of the fleet, never forgotten.
I love this plane 💖💖💖
Wow! It's cool !!
最高ですね！
Nice Lars!!
einfach geil!
Beautiful jetplane
Best of the best