F-14 final flight. I loved this plane. This was probably the best Navy fighter ever built. Amazing record. I worked at Grumman in the 70's as a college kid when this was being flight tested one summer. I was standing near the runway when it did a fly-by for the workers. What a sight. It came by low and pretty slow, the wings started to fold back and he hit the afterburners...flames came out of the exahust like a giant blow tourch and the plane went nearly straight up like a thundering rocket. It blew some windows in the nearby neighborhood.
The next pass was at an awesome speed that scared the livin sh*t out of me. Yep, it was expensive but worht every penny IMO. This plane was the foundation of navy fighters for 30 years and the envy of the world. Whos says americans can't built good stuff.
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