VF 31 Cruise Video 2006 Triple Tomcat Launch

[@tacoenvy]

I love his little shuffle and kneel at 1:20 telling them to kneel the aircraft haha that's amazing. Dude loves his job!

[@RickyJr46]

You could actually feel the Big E recoil during F-14 shots, all the way down in the propulsion plants. That was damn impressive!

[@oswaldomorales8924]

Big E recoil?

[@hollywoodghostbusters9869]

@@oswaldomorales8924 I believe he means the USS Enterprise

[@gtc1961]

it was kind of cool how it lagged behind the actual cat shot but a send or so....and then went on for a few seconds.

[@JoshuaTootell]

That ship weighed 95000 tons. That would be like you recoiling after you spit out some flem.

[@killerdoritoWA]

Imagine a Tomcat21 with AESA radar, conformal fuels tanks, and low observable weapons pods. What could've been...

[@ninus17]

Maybe make it a little bit more stealthy by getting some of those f35 and f22 angles

[@Booyaka9000]

You can add AESA radar, conformal fuels tanks and any other gear you want to it, but you can't upgrade the 1960 thinking behind it, unfortunately.

[@jowenjv4463]

Just a waste of taxepayer's money. Like the F-35. Specially the conformal fuel tank. Just useless for the range of F-14B and D. The F-14 was too much maintenance for too little flight hour. And I think the navy did a big mistake by sticking with the TF-30 engines, they should have invested more at the beginning for F100DFE or F110. It would have save a lot of airframes and pilots/RIO from death.

[@jowenjv4463]

And low observable weapons pod are useless too.

[@KLRGT500KR]

Tomcat21 would have been the Flanker SU-33/SU-35 killer. It already had an incredible airframe, extremely powerful GE-110 engines and digital avionics. F-14 could pitch so hard that it did not even need thrust vectoring to pitch. All it needed was newer radar system, better digital avionics, more FBW systems, Grumman was planning on increasing the thrust even over 30,200 lbsf the F-14D already had to around 32,000 lbsf in zone 5 afterburning from the GE-F110 engines. It would have been the best gen 4.5+ fighter/interceptor.

[@KSUBlueDragon]

This was awesome to watch. Miss this iconic jet!

[@droneguy69]

I love it when they go full power at night, it lights up the flight deck.

[@KLRGT500KR]

The one and only. The greatest fighter ever made. Period.

[@Sirderpingtonthefirst]

Amen

[@lifeshort]

Well not really, no. Hence it's been retired so long and superseded a shit load of times

[@KLRGT500KR]

@@lifeshort I know its 36 years history and accomplishments a lot more so that is my opinion. It is all based on facts. It was retired when it was the king and absolute at its peak with the highest number of sorties in Afghanistan. Nothing else came in that era close to combining incredible strike capablities, long range, BVR, WVR and ACM fighting capabilities that F-14 brought all in the same package. It had so many ways of taking out the enemy. I can prove it because I have the historical background.

[@lifeshort]

@@KLRGT500KR It's still not the "greatest fighter ever made". Word for word that statement is wrong.

[@KLRGT500KR]

@@lifeshort That is my opinion. Learn to accept people have their own opinions baed on what I have learned.

[@gerald4133]

Bring back the CAT 🐱.

[@Soundtracks92]

I second this!

[@gerald4133]

@@Soundtracks92 Americans should stand up for the TOMCAT & A10 who the fk is making these terrible decisions!!

[@gerald4133]

@@Soundtracks92 we saw a TOMCAT & crew, later the sky shook as it climb straight up those Engines was much louder that F15 then BOOM BOOM! IT GOT ALTITUDE THEN BROKE THE SOUND BARRIER! ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS Aircraft EVERY ! EVERY COUNTRY FEARED IT! NEVER LOST A BATTLE IN THE AIR! THE CAT 🐯

[@TheNavalCatch]

While it's a beautiful plane, let it rest. It's time is done.

[@sd906238]

There are 2 kinds of airplanes, the F-14 and all the rest. When you out of F-14's, you're out of Badass.

[@alexandertheissl5517]

Yes Tomcats and Targets 👍

[@roblockhart6104]

Poetry! Pure poetry!!

[@bluemarshall6180]

Alexander Theissl TOMcats nit TOM cruise. 😆

[@slowpoke96Z28]

💯

[@Inspadave]

The F-15 says otherwise.

[@MountaintravelerEddie]

Damn... fuck yeah....this is awesome...but I only experienced it by stepping out on the carrier deck... I was a Marine just catching a little firsthand experience.... My job was going to Iraq...I pulled trigger go boom....wish I had this job though.... I wouldn’t beep going through a metal detector after being blown up 19 times..!!! Thank you Navy for taking me to 56 countries... Semper Fi USMC / Retired

[@Vettefan83]

Thank you for your service

[@Paratus1179]

You were on an aircraft carrier and you were blown up 19 times!? I’ll take things that never happened, you were probably a POG if you were even a marine.

[@jimvetromila4562]

Absolutely the exact same procedure for going to the liquor store in my 93 Buick Road Master station wagon. 😆😆

[@lusa3002]

😂

[@diavolorosso69]

Ha, ha- do you feel the same Gs when u launch the 'master??

[@sano1062]

They say the F-18 Superhornet is superior to the F-14 Tomcat but I had an opportunity to be around the Tomcat working at NAS Jacksonville during the 80s. Ive seen demos of the Superhornet and the Tomcat and it seemed to me that the Tomcat out performed the Hornet. At NAS Jacksonville the Naval Aviators used to practice touch and go with full afterburners. The noise was off the charts.

[@Popesontour]

I miss that shit!! Ex ABH3 V1 Div! Edit: see everyone happy? Those must have been the last Three birds off the deck, we going home!

[@stanstenson8168]

Oh hell yeah. Clear deck, they're going home.

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

They were happy when they learned their ship was being redeployed to Czechoslovakia !

[@NhamshahSpah-ky-id6jo]

Would have been my retirement year, 06, had I stayed in. I was on the Nimitz. One of my kids pulled up the camera footage of the flight deck fire. You can find anything in the Inter-Toobz.

[@soundknight]

A special time and a special place.

[@alexandertheissl5517]

Tue the Pilots realize, there are sit in the most beautiful airplane ever build ??? The best job in the word band this kitties 🐱

[@dieselrotor]

And one of these damn things weigh as much as My house. My house is severely under powered. Hats off to the "King" !

[@updownandallaround]

She was such a beautiful airframe… too bad she drank just under seven gallons of JP5/sec at full afterburner. When I was in we had the D, she was a dragster and a beauty. Too many man hours per flight hour and a 1960s design (technology) ended her wonderful run. The D was where it was at, the A model was underpowered and prone to compressor stalls at higher angles of attack. The D was a fire-breathing dragster. Cutting edge at the time. The MiG-25 couldn’t hold a candle to her…

[@joeboss8576]

I love those cats back in the day.

[@Inspadave]

The most impressive part of this video is that there were actually three up birds at one time.

[@okisoba]

Can say similar things about legacy Hornets for the past decade.

[@kevinriordan7842]

@@okisoba Nope, I worked on legacy hornets. Brand new alphas and charlies. I will offer that I lusted after the tomcats. Favorite bird up there with one exception... more often than not, that rio gave thumbs down to cpo too often when coming out of the wire.

[@okisoba]

@@kevinriordan7842 I'm talking about 2008 and after, when they weren't new.

[@bobbycv64]

FLY NAVY!!!

[@davo1093]

The 14’s are like the really ridiculously good looking tall guys that show up at parties that immediately get every girls attention while the rest of us guys just pack up and head home cause there’s absolutely no point hanging around. 😩

[@kevinriordan7842]

Many reasons to love the tomcat..... for me, squatting down to drop the launch bar was sexy and mad her look like she was at speed already.

[@firstnamelastname3558]

Nothing squats and drops like a Tomcat at launch.

[@bluemarshall6180]

First Name Last Name Not Tom cruise.

[@firstnamelastname3558]

Blue Marshall, not sure what you’re trying to tell me.

[@israelmacotela6817]

Beautiful plane!🐈

[@sinisabalentovic9617]

Most beautifull fighter jet ever ....the only aircraft i will buy for DCS!!

[@kebabsvein1]

TOMCATS!

[@seangelarden8753]

I hav the V F 31 cats on the doors of my 65 G 10 van

[@allgood6760]

Awesome 👍

[@markmorrison5073]

The sound of freedom

[@werewolf5674]

They could have done the same thing with the F-14 they did with the F-15. Sad. Tomcat for life.

[@echohunter4199]

Sorry, it’s hard for me to digest why the Air Force just released their new F-15E model and the F-14’s are collecting dust in a storage yard.

[@okisoba]

Cheney wanted to ax the F-15E program, too. They got lucky. Knowing how to navigate Washington DC and the promise of $$$ in the right people's pockets helps. www.nytimes.com/1990/01/30/us/the-1991-budget-armed-forces-cheney-would-cut-divisions-in-army-but-maintain-b-2.html

[@Kane-ib5sn]

i don't know where the decision making process went wrong, but the F--22 had a naval derivative that had a Stealth F-14 like size and shape, with moving wings. it was the real deal. now, they are stuck with an expensive F-35 and Superhornets. not good.

[@rickwilliamson9248]

Part of the decision-making was purely financial. Having fewer airframes means fewer different spare parts and easier cannibalism between variants of the 18.

[@joeb1442]

The Cat is my favorite plane of all time as well but you have to understand that both the super hornet and lightening are better platforms!, there will never be another variable sweep wing fighter. It is old technology which cant carry anything on its wings and no longer has any advantages. I would be more than happy to be stuck with the 18 and 35 which are both amazing!!

[@Tamburello_1994]

They're happy to be "stuck" with both platforms.

[@tomdtom5407]

@@joeb1442 variable sweep wings can carry load, see Tornado IDS and F-111.

[@joeb1442]

@@tomdtom5407 You are correct in that matter and I should have been more precise in my thoughts. I will do so now. I was speaking of true air superiority fighters and true fighter aircraft. Both the F-111 and Tornado are truly Bombers and were excellent in that role. When you have a true fighter with variable sweep wings that have armament stations on its wings it is just simply too many moving parts to keep the aircraft aerodynamically affective as a Fighter. This is why the US navy did not choose the F-111 and waited for the Tomcat design which had no weapons on the wings and the Airforce knew they had the F-15 coming

[@cretanpilot]

DCS...

[@WinginWolf]

I imagine that was one of, if not the last launch?

[@MrDjrecon]

Wish they did those launches these days, the navy has changed

[@paleo114]

It looks like a parade with many men to launch one single Tomcat...Just saying from Fighter Squadron working on the Big E...

[@okisoba]

This was the last time Tomcats would be launched from an aircraft carrier. Everyone wanted to a part of history. It'd be no different for any other aircraft type.

[@jamescooper7957]

Watching this works better than a fistful of Viagra.

[@RonVanhouten]

F14 ❤❤❤

[@boakyeduan563]

F-14 leaving the service Pilots: *crying* Ground Crews: *celebrating*🤣

[@lifeshort]

Those boys at the end have been at sea too long.

[@johnhenderson3646]

I sure miss that shit.

[@hollywoodghostbusters9869]

Seeing as the two Tomcats in frame are numbered 101 and 102, was the third bird 103?

[@illsaveus]

Is that the ginyu force?!

[@jessedemby6225]

Best cruise ever on the Theodore Roosevelt 05 06

[@bluemarshall6180]

Jesse Demby Tom cruise. 😆

[@mfcobb1]

My Brudahs.

[@lifeshort]

Your what?

[@peterhewitt2252]

Pro's to a man !!

[@上からマリコ-m8v]

手振りだけで、あんな狭い甲板から飛行機飛ばすのって凄い！！。 中国🇨🇳の腕では、まだまだ空母は運用出来ないね！。

[@jamesorenthal-bm4sp]

Fly Navy

[@drones7838]

Iran watches this and wishes

[@mcmmx]

The Iranians are smiling from ear to ear since they're the only operator of the F-14, and doing a great effort in keeping then airworthy

[@minpark3078]

Good

[@ΓεώργιοςΣοφιανίδης]

Η τριανταψωλι που εγκατέλειψε το αεροσκαφος γιατί η ψωλι είναι γλυκιά

[@ddiver7908]

gotta admit... black people know how to shake em and bake em

[@gionathan3760]

What?

[@unusualbydefault]

why are they cheering?

[@daveschwartz5893]

Could be end of deployment. Just a guess.

[@Tamburello_1994]

Cuz they just heard the Tomcat is being retired.

[@TheJakesBlake]

The last MiG-28 turned back home

[@michaelrunkat6115]

I assume because they launched all 3 tomcats in quick succession. Hell I'd be happy as well lol

[@ed209inCA]

@@TheJakesBlake 🤣🤣🤣

[@dewiyanti2795]

This Action Fight Airplane Army From Amerika Just Vor Me Alone . 😈

[@julietramos8171]

🤥

[@julietramos8171]

Takeoff

[@spinynorman887]

WTAF? You title it : "Triple Tomcat Launch" and only show TWO cat shots? Thumbs down for clickbait and an inability to count!

[@okisoba]

0:36, 0:39, 0:48 ... that’s three

[@Respect-pc8ni]

Looks like YOU have the inability to see(not to be rude)

[@AA-xo9uw]

pogue

[@zKFaTaL]

The hesitant processing dimensionally shock because passbook unlikely sound failing a jolly interest. shiny, shut iraq

[@ЦукерЦукер]

, смешно!! Как в драке! ? Получил..... Беги!

[@LightningWing11]

Launching an aircraft is a damn art form

[@7LineJam]

James Brown would’ve been the best shooter

[@qasimothman8901]

Do you know his Facebook account name plz

[@archerpiperii2690]

@:49 did the pilot forget to hold his head back? He looked like a bobble-head during that launch!

[@kirioes]

Yeah he’ll feel that one 5 mins after the takeoff lol

[@kevinriordan7842]

Tomcat crew leaned forward and not sure why as I recall a legit reason for it. I worked on flight deck maintaining and final checking/troubleshooting hornets. Never witnessed a tomcat crew rest head on seat for cat stroke.

[@archerpiperii2690]

@@kevinriordan7842 Interesting. I wonder why they would do that?

[@jonn443]

There is not a sexier more fear inducing fighter jet ever made. (F-22 is beautiful but doesn't have her curves and swept wings).

[@pedroivansanchez3856]

Sorry f22 doesnt have nothing , in rhe U.S. arsenal maybe fhe f15 eagle ,

[@kevinriordan7842]

I don't recall if on a cruise or work ups. I was attached to hornet squadron on IKE. Tomcats launching off of the bow and I knew something was up as more than normal amount of peeps up on bow. I watched #2 cat launch tomcat and fly away. Then cat #1 launched, cleared the bow and went vertical with burners (F110 engines). Very cool to witness. Then boss comes over the 5mc and says, 'hope you enjoyed that because you won't ever see that again.'

[@ericscottstevens]

These F-14's look naked. without the "Jolly Roger" VF-84 & VF-103

[@torn-_shuttle123]

Man o man, do I love simultaneous launches. Especially when the Bow and Waist are in sync. Back in the day, all 4 catapults could be launched under 5 minutes. Not in today’s Navy unfortunately.

[@ozzy7763]

Absolutely awesome!!! Carriers look puny without the Cat sitting on there decks !

[@lifeshort]

*their

[@bestamerica]

' come on america... keep up american company make many more new better F-14 tomcat airplanes

[@MrSpeartip12]

I was the radar shop supervisor in a tomcat squadron. VF-301 from 86 to 88 at NAS Miramar.

[@craiglizt8074]

USA! USA! USA! Hell yeah! That was amazing.

[@davidhepburn9328]

Impressive but still killing machines!?

[@joeboss8576]

There is another video of this from a different angle. The full kneel and the handoff to the shooter.

[@inspectorseb2887]

is there any videos of hornets doing the same thing?

[@patrickr9606]

The Crew Chief has moves!

[@kevinmccorkle7476]

The "Turd shirts" at the end was awesome! Once a Tomcat PC, always a Tomcat PC!♠️⚓️

[@dustyflair]

00:48 then slowmo frame by frame. Watch that pilots head snap.

[@christmas4342]

SO COOL ~~~~~

[@mrandrossguy9871]

You didn't show Any Actually Launch Off the deck you see the Afterburners !?

[@okisoba]

The F-14B/D with the upgraded engines did not launch with afterburners per the operating instructions and procedures.

[@scottmichels14]

USA

[@Leon-Hardt]

Grumman F-14 "Tomcat": I AM LEGEND 😎😎😎😎

[@Benjimac379]

Top Gun proved how good of a jet it really was!