October 19, 2000 at 5:12 pm
I was paging through my old AFMs when I saw this in an article in the August 1990 issue of AFM on the F-14 written by Squadron Leader Stu Black (RAF):”It was during one of these detachments to Key West that we were able to stage a predominantly RAF battle between F-14s and F-15s. The event took place shortly before my return to the UK and we were in the process of converting a replacement RAF crew who had recently arrived at VF-101. By chance, another RAF exchange officer, F/L Mac Macready was also at Key West with an F-15 squadron from Tyndall. With some reluctance our skipper agreed to a British led four v four Eagles. It was one of the toughest fights I’ve ever been involved in! I had better not go into precise details of the outcome, but I can tell you that we drew Eagles hanging from the gallows in the debrief.”
I always thought the F-15 was a better fighter than the F-14, in particular having regard to the F-14A’s mediocre engines. Does anyone have any idea whether the above result is typical of a meeting of these two fighter types?