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Wolfman: This gives me a hard on.
Hollywood: Don’t tease me.
Wolfman: This gives me a hard on.
Hollywood: Don’t tease me.
It’s not gay if it’s underway, right?
That’s TWICE! Goddamnit! I want some butts!
Wolfman: This gives me a hard on.
Hollywood: Don’t tease me.
It’s not gay if it’s underway, right?
That’s TWICE! Goddamnit! I want some butts!
Maverick: Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby.
Air Boss Johnson: Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.
I miss them. They were ridiculous and overpowered and awesome. I had a F-14 model kit when I was younger, 1:144th scale, and the wings had pivots and gears so that they would rotate properly (most of the time). It was fantastic.
Really cool airplane, but the P&W TF-30 engines in the “A-models” were the weak link in an otherwise good airplane. After getting GE F-110 engines in the “B-models” and “D-models” in the late 80’s-early 90’s, the F-14 finally had engines to match the airframe and avionics.
We had similar TF-30’s in the USAF F-111’s that I flew. It was probably too much to ask of P&W or any other jet engine manufacturer to build an afterburning turbofan engine given the technology of the 1960’s. The “F-model” F-111’s with the TF-30-P-100’s were better than the earlier engines, but we didn’t fly F-111’s like the Navy flew F-14’s.
20 minutes of awesomeness: