"Jcarr" (jcarr)
12/15/2016 at 12:36 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"Jcarr" (jcarr)
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At EAA AirVenture this year, a few of the “Zeros” from the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! reenactment group got together with a couple Navy Super Hornets to pay homage to the 1980 film !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
If you’re unfamiliar with the film, it stars Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen and chronicles the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz mysteriously travelling back in time to just before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Clip from the original film:
AuthiCooper1300
> Jcarr
12/15/2016 at 12:45 |
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I loved that film. The space/time paradoxes in the script may not be quite up to Einstein/Hawking standard, but surely it was fun. And we got to see Tomcats.
I think it was less corny than
the other one
(also with F-14s).
facw
> Jcarr
12/15/2016 at 13:07 |
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Quick, someone make friends with the Iranian Air Force so we can have real Tomcats!
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AuthiCooper1300
> facw
12/15/2016 at 13:55 |
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I was wondering... so the Iranian F-14s are the only ones in flying condition? I understood the US wanted to scrap all aircraft so Iran could no acquire any replacement parts.
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facw
> AuthiCooper1300
12/15/2016 at 14:07 |
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I believe that is the case. The Iranian F-14s keep flying by canablizing the fleet, and through parts manufactured by their domestic aviation industry. It’s not clear how many are still operational, but it is at least some:
I think all the ones in the US are non-flying museum pieces at this point. There are 10 still at the boneyard, but presumably they are no longer operable.
BorkBorkBjork
> facw
12/15/2016 at 15:49 |
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Interestingly enough, Iran uses them primarily as Airborne Radar platforms, as the F-14 has the best radar of any aircraft they have access to.