Smoke On The Water!

[@DCSHacks]

This series is rapidly becoming a favourite go-to for Naval Aviation! Awesome!!!!

[@sonnyburnett8725]

Every time I listen to a Navy guy and F-14 pilots in particular relating a story, I’m so impressed with how honest they are. No embellishment or “There I was” story telling.

[@gregoryleewalker]

Watch Tomcat Tales. It's free on KZbin. I was aboard the IKE in the early 80's, good times, and I've watched it twice already. Night launch of F-14's at full afterburner off the waist cats was the coolest thing I've ever seen.

[@rickm2573]

A certain pucker factor was achieved.

[@stephenhoda3362]

New definition of a "CLEAN JET". Too clean.

[@iain3411]

Wow , made it back safe . That's what counts. I was USN '74 to '79 BT2 , DD-876 DESRON 37.

[@georgeschmidt4956]

I'm not a pilot but was an aircrewman in a helo squad. We were flying plane gard one day and out of the blue one of the pilots smells smoke. So they called in for an emergency landing. As they (the pilots) began to do there procedure for an emergency landing by this time we were approaching just forward of the island to get back aboard ship. I being an aircrewman was always under the idea that if we ever approached the carrior flight deck with the landing gear NOT DOWN the pilot owed the crewman a fifth of booze if the crewman informed the pilot of this situation. So as we approached I keyed my Mike saying " landing gear sir" . No reply. Again as we were getting closer to the carrior. "Landing gear sir " again NO RESPONSE. By this time we were just about over the cat walk of the carrior. So this time I reached up between the 2 pilots and pushed the landing gear lever down. For all my action all I got was a " THANK YOU CREWMAN". 😢 NO BOOZE. guess it is what it is.😊

[@felix.8891]

Thank you thank you, proud to be American.👍

[@xuv5607]

Curious if you knew my father Captain Sam Mowad, he was a Commander and dental officer on the USS Kitty Hawk during that same time.

[@tat2steven810]

man...i love these aviator stories!!💯

[@NavalAV8er]

Feet, great Tomcat sea story!

[@dougjamesvandals]

Great stuff! Wow never routine

[@Mary-bs3rq]

Thankyou for sharing.......as I've always said, the pilot doesnt earn his keep flying the airplane......rather he aviates using the knowledge of knowing what to do when stuff goes sideways is what matters most!

[@hoghogwild]

Wow just wow! Great story and great presentation.

[@thereissomecoolstuff]

Where are you getting this footage? Its good

[@TomcatTales]

When I was flying the Tomcat, I was able to collect a bunch of videos from buddies in other squadrons.

[@thereissomecoolstuff]

@@TomcatTales outstanding. You got wacky Ward Carrol jealous. All great stuff. A lot of the Vietnam era are getting up there. Hopefully as you post these videos others will come forward. Thank you very much.

[@oldgoat142]

Excellent, excellent, excellent video! I really enjoy listening to these stories. This is great stuff!

[@werewolf5674]

Any landing is a good landing. Tomcat for life.

[@HabitualButtonPusher]

Makes you wish part of this interview process went over “What my callsign is and How I got it”. I am guess either big feet or two left left haha

[@andreim841]

TOMCATS!!!!!!

[@CarlosMoreno-dq3kg]

very nice video!!!!!, I have a question, at what AoA the F-14 stalls (or units of AoA)?

[@LRRPFco52]

Depends on airspeed, altitude, and weight.

[@CarlosMoreno-dq3kg]

15K , clean configuration, for dogfight. normal 1V1 weight , ground deck set up to FL080 ,the AoA that you are checking not to reach it?

[@soundknight]

Imagine if this happened to an F-35... would just be a flying brick

[@ghostrider1827]

Uhhh it might NOT fly at all!!!!!!

[@LRRPFco52]

F-35 has far superior Integrated Power Pack power generation without the vulnerabilities of 1950s-1960s electrical systems architecture that the Tomcat had. That's why only 1x F-35C has been written off with zero fatalities and 73 F-14As were written off just in its first 10 years of service, with at least 19 fatalities in those 10 years. There are more redundancies that are more robust in the F-35C, with more reliance on fly-by-light DFLCS and self-contained Elecyrohydrostatic Actuators that aren't subject to a central hydraulic pressure system. F-35s have superior power plants and vastly-superior fault avoidance/management systems. It's also the easiest fighter to bring back in Naval aviation history.

[@elnach3240]

@@LRRPFco52 and it's also called Fat Amy. The Tomcat is the best looking plane to ever touch a carrier deck, and if it were not for the Pratt TF-30, the F-14A losses would have never occurred.

[@LRRPFco52]

@@elnach3240 F-14 write-offs and fatalities were caused by a number of factors, generally broken down into 3rds. Engine failures, other mechanical/electrical faiures, and pilot error.

[@elnach3240]

@@LRRPFco52 look at the present fully mission capable percentage of currently delivered F-35’s and get back to me.

[@P46345]

Has anybody in the Navy ever heard of RAIN???

[@bearez1]

How much fuel is wasted landing military aircraft every year? It must be astronomical.