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Farewell to the Tomcat
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Sunday, 30-July-2006 00:27:36 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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This may not be relevant to a lot of people, but an icon from my childhood has retired recently. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat has jumped off the deck for the last time, as they have been retired from active service in the US Navy. I was a bit of an aircraft nut as a kid and built a few model F-14's - in fact, I remember painting one up in the "Jolly Rogers" colours:
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Cue the Top Gun theme...
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(What Agg isn't telling you is that he's still a large plane nut now, and frankly, so am I. It's a bit worrying when two grown men get nostalgic over a fighter being retired, but damnit, leave us alone. The Tomcat had a great career, except for that 'thing' with Tom Cruise, but let's not be too hasty to judge: it was young and needed the money. In this day and age of 'multi-mission capability' and cost cutting, there will never be such a brute force, bar-brawling fighter aircraft such as the F-14 again. - Sciby)
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