Where/when was this taken? Is this some sort of a graveyard?
Where/when was this taken? Is this some sort of a graveyard?
Where/when was this taken? Is this some sort of a graveyard?
"snort" Snodgrass was the pilot in that picture he crashed and in a airshow a few years ago I shot skeet with him at Nas Oceana in the intermural skeet tournament He shot for the VF101 (f-14 ) Rag and I shot for VA-42 (A-6 Rag) It was a great rivalry the F-14 team was all officers and the A-6 team was all enlisted for a 4 year stretch 1st and 2nd came down to those teamsOne of my fave pics:
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I saw them time to time around Virginia Beach and southern Cali. Those engines had a distinctive sound. Being maintenance-heavy, expensive to fly, and new-gen aircraft coming out, they killed it, but golly I would have loved to have seen the Super Tomcat:
This Is What Grumman's Proposed F-14 Super Tomcat 21 Would Have Actually Looked Like
If the Super Hornet hadn't been built, Grumman's next-gen Tomcat may have become a reality. We forensically recreated it in these awesome renderings.www.thedrive.com
looks like Oceana Fighter countryI've no idea. Not Miramar. Maybe oceana nas.
in real combat a F14 with AIM-54 Pheonix missiles could fire them at 6 targets at over a 100 mile with a 90% kill rate. poor little F18s would never know what hit them the F14 was NOT a Fighter it was a missle launch platform. In the Iran–Iraq War AIM-54s fired by IRIAF Tomcats achieved 78 victories against Iraqi MiG-21s, MiG-23s, MiG-25s, Tu-22s, Su-20/22s, Mirage F 1s, Super Étendards, and even two AM-39 Exocets and a C-601. This includes two occasions where one AIM-54 was responsible for the downing of two Iraqi aircraft, as well as an incident on January 7, 1981, where a Phoenix fired at a four-ship of MiG-23s downed three and damaged the fourth.[4]The only F-14’s flying today are the bad guys. They are going to be shot down by F-18’s.
"snort" Snodgrass was the pilot in that picture he crashed and in a airshow a few years ago I shot skeet with him at Nas Oceana in the intermural skeet tournament He shot for the VF101 (f-14 ) Rag and I shot for VA-42 (A-6 Rag) It was a great rivalry the F-14 team was all officers and the A-6 team was all enlisted for a 4 year stretch 1st and 2nd came down to those teams
in real combat a F14 with AIM-54 Pheonix missiles could fire them at 6 targets at over a 100 mile with a 90% kill rate. poor little F18s would never know what hit them the F14 was NOT a Fighter it was a missle launch platform. In the Iran–Iraq War AIM-54s fired by IRIAF Tomcats achieved 78 victories against Iraqi MiG-21s, MiG-23s, MiG-25s, Tu-22s, Su-20/22s, Mirage F 1s, Super Étendards, and even two AM-39 Exocets and a C-601. This includes two occasions where one AIM-54 was responsible for the downing of two Iraqi aircraft, as well as an incident on January 7, 1981, where a Phoenix fired at a four-ship of MiG-23s downed three and damaged the fourth.[4]
You made me laugh Attack Remember I worked on A-6 Intruders now that was ATTACKI had heard he and ship's crew took days to plan and stage that shot. He was a photographer, too, and had the picture in his mind and it took several attempts to get the right picture.
It went from stand-off interceptor to fighter to attack platform, and excelled in each role. There will never be another plane like it.
You made me laugh Attack Remember I worked on A-6 Intruders now that was ATTACK
I was born, raised and lived most of my life in Bethpage, NY. Most everyone's father was NYPD, FDNY or worked for Grumman on the F-14 or E2/C Hawkeye.Built by Grumman at Bethpage Long Island NY.
One of the engineers was on a sabbatical at our HS, he arranged a field trip to the facility for our shop class, it was awesome.
in the catapult pic that is me on the far side in white
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I spent 4 years as a Avionics Instructor teaching A6 maintenance in VA42 (NAS Oceana). Marines attend Navy schools so I taught a lot of the Marine electronics maintenance crewsThose are great pics. I remember when the Marines had A-6s at Cherry Point.
looks like the USS Harry S. Truman
F-14 tomcat A6 Intruder A4 Skyhawk and a F4 Phantom the Phantom was proof that with enough thrust even a brick will fly. I worked the deck with the F4 F14 and the A6All of these were Navy, two with the Marines. I recall the A-6 and A-4 at Cherry Point.
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those are all TRAM/DRS birds notice the ball under the nose "Beginning in 1979, all A-6Es were fitted with the AN/AAS-33 DRS (Detecting and Ranging Set), part of the 'Target Recognition and Attack Multi-Sensor' (TRAM) system, a small, gyroscopically stabilized turret, mounted under the nose of the aircraft, containing a forward-looking infra-red (FLIR) boresighted with a laser spot-tracker/designator and IBM AN/ASQ-155 computer. TRAM was matched with a new Norden AN/APQ-156 radar. The BN could use both TRAM imagery and radar data for extremely accurate attacks, or use the TRAM sensors alone to attack without using the Intruder's radar (which might warn the target). TRAM also allowed the Intruder to autonomously designate and drop laser-guided bombs"
I will not tell you the Sailors nickname for the kitty hawk LOL
the A6F got as far as prototypes flying before Congress killed it over the navy's objections and crammed F-18 down our throats. I was a A6E Instructor and had to spend 8 months working with Gruman writing a training course for a aircraft that had been canceledWhen I was a young engineer out of college, I worked for a company that made flight actuation systems for most of the military aircraft. We were designing a new system for what was called the A12, a plane that never made it into production. We were considering a design for that plane that was supposedly similar to the one used on the F14. We didn’t have the F14 system, so Boeing (the prime contractor at the time) pulled some strings and got us into the North Island F14 repair station in San Diego so we could investigate what was actually on the plane. Here I was, in my mid 20s, climbing on and around a number of F14s in various stages of disassembly. It was a great experience!