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What does the second person do in an F-14?
What does the second pilot do? Radar Intercept Officer/Weapons Systems Officer operates the radar targets weapons and drops/fires many of them while the forward seat flies the plane. The RIO/WSO can also fly the plane if needed in some tandem cockpit setups excluding the F-14 which did not have dual controls.
How accurate is the movie Top Gun?
Top Gun is, of course, a fictional story, but a lot of it comes from the real world. After all, the place where the training takes place in the movie does indeed exist, as does the “Top Gun” training program. Kelly McGillis’ character, Charlie was even based on a real person, Navy defense tactician Christine Fox.
How long can a f14 stay in the air?
All told, the F-14 could cover 1,600 miles without refueling, but was generally considered to have a 1,000-mile combat range.
What does it mean to fly through jet wash?
Jetwash refers to the rapidly moving gases expelled from a jet engine; it is extremely turbulent, but of short duration. Instead, it refers to the similarity to atmospheric turbulence as experienced by an aircraft flying through this region of disturbed air. Wingtip vortices occur when a wing is generating lift.
Where is the Navy TOPGUN school?
Naval Air Station Fallon
Known in military circles as TOPGUN, the formal name of the training program is the Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program (SFTI). Physically located at the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada, TOPGUN is part of an operation featuring 12 departments.
Does F-14 still fly?
The US Navy operated 338 F-14 aircraft of all three variants, but the aircraft was replaced by the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. In July 2006, the F-14 made its last carrier launch and, on 22 September 2006, the US Navy officially retired the F-14 Tomcat. The F-14 is currently in service with Iran Air Force.
Why is F-14 so big?
The Tomcat’s radar could track up to 24 different targets simultaneously. One of the reasons the plane is so big is to fit such a huge radar system. When the F/A-18 first became the F-14’s replacement, everything had to be scaled back.
Should Top Gun 2 lend the F-14 Tomcat to another movie?
Clearly, lending the plane to star in Top Gun 2 would give the beleaguered airframe stardom unlike any other Tomcat that calls a museum or gate guard position home. Lending the jet to be used in the movie would turn the F-14 in need of help into a top attraction and the production budget of the film clearly helped clean it up for shooting.
What happened to the F-14 stealth fighter?
Several retired F-14s have been put on display across the US. The F-14 remains in service with Iran’s air force, having been exported to Iran under the Pahlavi regime in 1976. In November 2015, reports emerged of Iranian F-14s flying escort for Russian Tupolev Tu-95, Tu-160, and Tu-22M bombers on air strikes in Syria.
In 1988 a naval aviator performed a remarkable flyby with his F-14 Tomcat. The stunning image in this post will probably remind our readers the famous scene of Top Gun (when Maverick buzzes the tower with his F-14 Tomcat during a high speed flyby): But the true story behind the picture above is quite different.
What kind of technology does the F-14 have?
The F-14 also features electronic countermeasures (ECM) and radar warning receiver (RWR) systems, chaff/flare dispensers, fighter-to-fighter data link, and a precise inertial navigation system.