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Xtndr50boom
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R.O.,
Uneducated question: Most F-14s I've seen had the external tanks (granted they were in the desert), and most, if not all, the pictures you've posted show them without. Is there any rhyme or reason to it? Or were they normally taken off for stateside flights?
Uneducated question: Most F-14s I've seen had the external tanks (granted they were in the desert), and most, if not all, the pictures you've posted show them without. Is there any rhyme or reason to it? Or were they normally taken off for stateside flights?
Just a guess ... it doesn't take that much gas to butt heads w/ an A-4 or anyone else and RTB safely from Whiskey-291 ...
We were shore-based 99.9% of the time. We only hung centerlines on our F-4s when on det, and I'm not sure we even had tanks for the F-14s in the three years that I flew (in) them. The fleet F-14 squadrons usually only hung them when they were on the boat, if I remember correctly. Having never been in a deploying F-14 squadron, I may be wrong, however...
Xtndr50boom
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Gotcha. Learning has been had.
W-291... that's what, 10 minutes from Miramar? Been awhile
W-291... that's what, 10 minutes from Miramar? Been awhile
Xtndr50boom
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Wow. You guys weren't kidding around with that not-needing-drop-tanks remark
Xtndr50boom
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Catmando said:
Really? I ever knew they could carry a centerline tank. I always thought it was just the two under the engines
I have no idea why I wrote that.
I do .... :icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:I have no idea why I wrote that.
But to your comment re: the centerline on F-4's ... completely agree as I never -- at least ALMOST never -- saw a Navy Fox-4 w/ wing tanks. Always the big-big centerline -- the rest of the stations were reserved for things that go "BANG & BOOM".
The Air Force F-4's ?? ... Different story ... they usually carried the smaller wing drops (150 gal??) ... 2 of 'em.
To wit:
I do .... :icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:
But to your comment re: the centerline on F-4's ... completely agree as I never -- at least ALMOST never -- saw a Navy Fox-4 w/ wing tanks. Always the big-big centerline -- the rest of the stations were reserved for things that go "BANG & BOOM".
The Air Force F-4's ?? ... Different story ... they usually carried the smaller wing drops (150 gal??) ... 2 of 'em.
To wit:
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Marines always carried the two wing tanks.
If I remember correctly the wing tanks were 370 gal each vice the 600 gal centerline tank
So you got an extra 140 gal but lost some roll rate
Xtndr50boom
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I have no idea why I wrote that.
You know you had an interesting career when the aircraft you flew start melding together. Or you're just getting "more experience" in life... either one
Thought this was a pretty cool shot, a little different than most of the overhead views the media center releases:
PACIFIC OCEAN (April 4, 2008) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) steams in the western Pacific Ocean. Lincoln and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 are on a scheduled seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans (Released)
What a photo!
Steve
A few from the collection--
Das boot turning for winds
Dumping fuel out over the Pacific after a fine day of cloud surfing
At the Nozzle Rotation Line
In the cross at the boat
A buddy on the way back to the boat from Al Asad.
Some formation VSTOL during a Tiger Cruise Airshow. Harrier Dude is in one of them.
At the tanker
Again...
Spinning silly circles over Ramadi in the early morning
Das boot turning for winds
Dumping fuel out over the Pacific after a fine day of cloud surfing
At the Nozzle Rotation Line
In the cross at the boat
A buddy on the way back to the boat from Al Asad.
Some formation VSTOL during a Tiger Cruise Airshow. Harrier Dude is in one of them.
At the tanker
Again...
Spinning silly circles over Ramadi in the early morning
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