Goodbye Tomcat

[areskzc]

The last demo of this amazing aircraft
My favourite combat airplane ever

Excellent duty F-14s :america:
Shit I'm almost in tears

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[Toddnos]

i thought tom and katie were breaking up...damnit

[nation of kong]

Oddly enough the only country that flies them still is Iran

[burnoutboy]

What's the purpose of the wings folding in flight? I though that was just for air craft carrier deck space.

[areskzc]

SPEED

Tomcat F14 and Lancer B1 were the first aircraft with swing wing systems.(sometimes called B wing confs)
When wings are close to the body mach speeds are easy to achieve, for more stability and combat behavior they had to open the wings...

It's like v-tec for wings!

But the hydro system was so expensive in manteniance that new aircrafts were designed to replace the f14... the F16 falcon and the F18 Hornet

Lancer B1
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/b1-lancer/images/clouds.jpg
http://www.militaryfactory.com/blueprints/imgs_ac/b1.gif

[Burnboy]

thats sick