December 30, 2005
Here's a Cat with its pants down:
Taken a the 2000 Oceana Airshow and posted on a great site called Tomcat Sunset. The Tomcat Sunset Committee "is a nonprofit entity established to plan and execute the Official Farewell Ceremony for the F-14 Tomcat in September of 2006." Check 'em out at tomcat-sunset.org. It appears that they're just setting up shop, but the galleries are already loaded with great stuff. (hat tip to regular reader James for the heads up on Tomcat Sunset)
A "cat" with its pants down?
Looks more like that cat's been neutered!
You might have photographic evidence there of the first phase of turning a Tomcat into a Veritech:
Much like the battleship, the Navy is ditching another asset it cannot replace. The F-18 A through F is a pig, and the latest versions even more so than the earlier ones. It's funny, the Russians copied the F-14 to produce the Su-30 that now regularly kicks the USAF's ass in India, and our answer is to retire the original. Is the Navy run by abject idiots?
