Thread 64466907

Instead of using to fight with it, Iran should use to get some money.

What Iran has to do: restore it back ask much as they can to the stock F-14.
Paint it with the jolly rogers squad scheme.

Then charged people some $$$$$$ to fly at the back seat of the F-14.

I bet a lot of people would be willing to go there, and fly inside the F-14 at least once.

It is something that not even america can offer.

the tomcat isnt even the prettiest plane grumman ever made

I think the F-22 is the sexiest aircraft ever made. I’m sure playing Ace Combat 4 in my formative years had a part in it.

>>64466922
>Hey, Bob, we have lot of unmatching airframe parts and bits left from our projects. What we should do with these?
>Hand them to me, Johny. I have an idea...

the aesthetics were surpassed and perfected decades before, pal

>>64466922
Hawkeye without the eye

>>64466907 (OP)
The f-16 is much more aesthetic

yes

>>64467119
Mah nigga

>>64466907 (OP)
Nope. But the F-14 was already a step down.

>>64466907 (OP)
Flight costs of a military jet are like $50,000 an hour.

OP why can't speaked english?

>>64467124
>F15EX-IRAN
IRAN?

>>64467147
still not as good as the original "ugly is the new beautiful"

>>64466907 (OP)
The aesthetics of a plane are inseparable from its cultural context. The F-14 is so aesthetic because it was an icon of the '80s and the '80s were fucking awesome.

>>64466922
An Ork made this.

>>64467119
>>64467124
E is a capable platform but nothing compared to the original air superiority fighter airplane in visual aesthetics

>>64468452
>'80s
It entered squadron operational service in September 1974. It is a 1970s airplane.
(the only reason fucking plebbitards like (You) post that is because in the year 1985—a decade *after* it entered full operational service—a faggotard movie that gained massive box office came out. Additionally, in the year 1980, five years prior to Faggotard Movie, a movie entitled 'The Final Countdown' with carrier operations sequences filmed in 1979 was released that is far superior to Faggotard Movie and remains the only real Tomcat movie ever.)
The 1980s decade globally sucked balls.

>>64466922
>>64467000
>>64467147
>>64468050
trvth in each of these

>>64468567
Knock-offDraken.jpg

>>64466922
I, too, enjoy ironyposting.

>>64469007
oops posted a toy

>>64468565
Yes, I've seen The Final Countdown. My kids watched it before Top Gun. Anyway, '80s kids were the first kids who grew up with the Tomcat

>The 1980s decade globally sucked balls.
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>>64468543
I disagree. I think that the cockpit looks nicer on the E and that the CFTs blend so well with the design of the plane that they make it look better. I also like the various paints found on the E models better than that light gray you posted. but I do think that the Cs are sexy too despite all of that. each to their own.

peak of twin piston engine fighter aesthetics
immediately post-WWII

>>64469095
>'80s kids were the first kids who grew up with the Tomcat
??
Wrong.
It entered squadron operation service in September 1974.
Nineteen-seventies kids were *the first* who grew up with the Tomcat.
('80s kids grew up with mass brainwashing bad hair and atrocious music)

I have been a fan of the P-40 for the cool nose art since I was a kid.

>>64468543
I just like the big chunky gear of navy fighters. Airforce planes look like a bear riding a tricycle to me.

>>64467000
originally designed with more swept wings as "proof of concept" for the final word in aircraft design....

It remains the template for all aircraft into the foreseeable future. Its like the first time someone made a four wheeled cart and tied it to a horse.

Two axle flow turbo jets under low swept wing and tail planes and swept tail, tricycle landing gear, fat fuselage, burning kerosene at 500mph at 30,000ft.

Aesthetics follows function.

Its what you end up with given Earth's gravity and atmosphere, and its why all airliners are now of that design.

1000yrs from now the Me-262 will be call the "first airplane" and everything prior just quirky false starts.

>all these ugly ass aircraft
Fuck you all, it's beautiful aircraft hours.

Look at her lines, her aluminum skin, her paint.....

This aircraft pioneered so much advanced tech it isn't funny.