Historic or not ?

Back in the dim & distant past I saw one of the first at RIAT in 1977 at Greenham Common. Shortly after this they dumped one in the north Sea or Atlantic & there was a mad scramble to recover the “secret” missile (Phoenix perhaps ?). This is all a bit foggy. Can anyone fill in the details ?

I can recommend an excellent book called “Cutting Edge” which chronicles a carrier deployment throught the eyes of an F14 pilot who is also a photographer.

Not sure I’d class it as historic just yet, but it’s certainly on my list of “things I’ve never seen yet but would love to”.

Historic or not?

Historic. 🙂

Mark

I think If my memory is correct the shot of this F14 I took at Boscombe down in 92 was the last one that displayed to the UK public, but the last uk airshow apperance to date was yeovilton 96 when aircraft from VF14 were on static.

Regards Plazz

Apparently the pilot was grounded for three months after that stunt on the carrier

Hi All

The pic of the F-14 doing the knife edge pass on the carrier is a great shot and would make a great caption comp. My Entries would be……..

What Fly By sir i was checking the deck was clear

Or….

Can i have a Big Mac and large fries please.

Scott C

One more (sorry about quality of this one, flippin great cloud came over) As to when we shall see another one in the UK????

Plazz

Another…

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Also got to see Harry trueman visit Portsmouth in spring 2003. the weather was poor But I could make out 8 F14’s on the deck!

Plazz

This one was on the static at Fairford 93…

I also manged to see four out of the six F14’s fly that were in at yeovilton in 94, the other two remained parked up all day!

Regards Plazz.

And thats exactly where I took the picture at the top of this thread. I believe that was the last F14 public display in the UK.
Phil

ATI 1992 at Boscombe Down was the only time I have seen one

Originally posted by Snapper
Tail-end Charlie?

A E Charles, Esq.

Lovely Jet hope get see one again oneday i was knee high to a grasshopper when last saw one(which is just a bit higher than the tomcat in that pic earlier in thread:D )Another old jet i miss is the F1-11 been years since saw one of them burn the sky.

I was involved in a dog fight with one in the words biggest fighter the Nimrod MR2P with Sidewinders back in ’84 whilst visiting one of the squadrons at Kinloss. Managed to get a trip on one of the ops when they were on exercise. It was amazing!

Tail-end Charlie?

Iceman’s a pilot, not a BUMbardier 😉

Never heard any “tailgunning” mentioned ??:D

Must get my video out sometime.

I’m not sure anybody said “Ride my tail” in the version I watched.

Maybe substances help?

Moggy