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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Tomcat Daily Trivia


It's radar system could simultaneously track 24 targets and the AIM-54 Phoenix missile system had a lethal range of 115 miles. It had a chin mounted TV camera so a bogey could be identified from a distance.

The F-14 didn't have ailerons. Instead, it used wing spoilers at low speeds, and differential 'tailerons' at high speed.

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