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  • YYZPICS
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    Originally posted by PT737SWA
    Hopefully some museums will buy a bunch and keep them flying like all the other older warbirds.
    Unforuntaley none will be flying after because due to the training and qualifications needed annually by pilots.

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  • FlyingPhotog
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    Hopefully some museums will buy a bunch and keep them flying like all the other older warbirds.

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  • Top_Gun
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    Tomcat closing ceremonies are Sept 20-23

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    VF-31 will conduct a ceremonial last flight Friday morning (Sept 22)

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  • Chris@YYZ
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    Originally posted by Top_Gun
    no more F-14's period, land or carrier based.

    There are some Hornet units which are land based. Only Tomcat's that will be left are gate guards or the graveyard at DM.....
    damn, that sucks

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  • Top_Gun
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    no more F-14's period, land or carrier based.

    There are some Hornet units which are land based. Only Tomcat's that will be left are gate guards or the graveyard at DM.....

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  • Chris@YYZ
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    so once the Tomcatters F14s are gone, no more Carrier based F-14s?

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  • Top_Gun
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    I believe they are the last active unit. Everything else has already transitioned to the Hornet.

    The LAST flight of the Tomcat out of Oceana will be a week or two after the Oceana Airshow .....
    from the ICAS boards.

    VF-213 and VF-31 will be the last two VF squadrons.
    They will deploy on USS Theodore Roosevelt together (rare in recent
    years to have two Tomcat units onboard a carrier) late this year and
    will retire on their return to Oceana sometome in April 2006.
    From what I've heard VF-31 The Tomcatters will be the last official F-14
    squadron which is kinda fitting.

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  • Chris@YYZ
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    so just like that the Tomcats have been taken out of carrier ops?

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  • B757300
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    In this case, one really can't blame Cheney.

    It was fully expected that the F-14 would be replaced by some kind of stealth aircraft as the F-22 is replacing the F-15 and F-35 is replacing the F-16/F/A-18. Then the Soviet Union fell and the budgets dried up.

    Hindsight is always 20/20. Foresight is not.

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  • seventwo
    started a topic Tomcat flys last combat mission

    Tomcat flys last combat mission

    http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=22325
    Way to go Dick Cheney!
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