Update on Aerosoft's Big Cat

"Unload, 500 knots -- lets get the hell out of here"

I have always loved listening to the audio recording of the 89 Gulf of Sidra engagement.
 
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Knowing your attention to detail, I am confident this will be the most accurate and detailed rendition of the Tomcat ever!
Looking forward to it!
 
Running through post-start and this picture had to be taken. This is a stock install of Acceleration (computer crashed recently) and is the scene which is loaded with the Kitty Hawk's saved flight in the Mediterranean.

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I love the Tomcat!

I truely can't belive that the US did not beware(for shredding) two or three of them for flight-shows. I will never see one flying, or i'll have to go to Iran...:crybaby:
 
VF-41 during that time carried the LANTIRN pod to lase targets for the FAST FAC mission. They could also drop their own dumb and smart bombs.

Hopefully Aerosoft's Tomcat includes this detail.

Jeff
 
sepp666 said:
I love the Tomcat!

I truely can't belive that the US did not beware(for shredding) two or three of them for flight-shows. I will never see one flying, or i'll have to go to Iran...:crybaby:
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In 2003 when I heard they were planning to retire the Big Cat, I "made" my 22 year-old son make the trip to NAS Oceana for the express purpose of seeing the Tomcat
in it's native environment. Somethings you just have to see and hear to appreciate!
 
Odie said:
In 2003 when I heard they were planning to retire the Big Cat, I "made" my 22 year-old son make the trip to NAS Oceana for the express purpose of seeing the Tomcat
in it's native environment. Somethings you just have to see and hear to appreciate!
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One day i'll come over the great ocean to the US and go to some museum to get in touch with our Kitty. This is really a must for me.
But a holiday trip from Germany:germany: to America:unitedstates: isn't that cheap.
 
Odie said:
In 2003 when I heard they were planning to retire the Big Cat, I "made" my 22 year-old son make the trip to NAS Oceana for the express purpose of seeing the Tomcat
in it's native environment. Somethings you just have to see and hear to appreciate!
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I did the same thing with the family in '04, just to see the Tomcat fly. I have seen them fly before but not like at Oceana.

The first 3 years of my life were on Marine Corps Air Stations and I grew up around airports (father was an Air Traffic Controller). I have been to my share of air shows (Oshkosh many times, Dayton, Pensacola...) but that 2004 Oceana Airshow is my favorite.

Lucky me, in 2005 I got to work my first F-14 as an Air Traffic Controller, Gypsy31. After it landed I went over to the FBO to take some pics of the Tomcat and meet the pilots. I didn't realize it at the time but I think the pilot was Jay from "Speed and Angels". VF-32 F-14B modex 110.
 
I did the same thing with the family in '04, just to see the Tomcat fly. I have seen them fly before but not like at Oceana.
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I recall seeing a Tomcat perform at the annual Willow Grove NAS airshow back in the early '90s when I was a teenager. The noise and earth-rumbling power left an indelible impression on me. Sadly, I was also on hand to see the last ever departure of a Tomcat from Willow Grove, shortly before their fleet retirement. Sadly, now the base AND the aircraft are no more. :frown:

The AS version certainly looks to be top-shelf. I'm not a big military flyer in FS, but I might make an exception for this one!
 
I was lucky enough to live very very close to Miramar in the Top Gun days... so seeing a 'cat was an everyday thing for me. Even got to go on the flightline as a kid and get a personal tour of a 'cat. Sat in it, under it, touched all parts of it..... if I only had a camera with me back then! But I also remember some of the bad like when one tomcat lost its hydraulics and crashed into a hanger at Gillespie field. I was worried then because my dad worked right near that crash. He was safe though! But I sure do miss seeing that beautiful aircraft streaking across the sky above me... gave me goosebumps every time! :salute:
 
Hi guys, thanks for the feedback, the name is fixed now - this was a work in progress, far from finished, but we wanted to show it so much :) We just started working on the paint schemes, so we'll post more.
 
evvatc said:
I didn't realize it at the time but I think the pilot was Jay from "Speed and Angels".
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I met him as well. He flew backseat in a brand new VFA-32 F/A-18F that stopped over at McConnell AFB where I was stationed. Although he was a pilot too, the front seater was TJ Flora whos father at the time was a General in the KS ANG.

I had just returned from deployment a couple of days prior, so this was a great welcome back. I've got a photo of Jay and I sitting on the jet, with him explaining the WSO 'pit.

Great memories in that pic of the Gypsy Tomcat!

-Jeff
 
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