> Before leaving the replacement air group, F-14 pilots were well educated on the TF30 engine’s limitations and knew the workarounds so that the “sudden and scary” things that Wilkinson talks about did not happen in an air combat maneuver environment. His next attempt is nothing but hearsay: “Some Tomcat crews described their mount as ‘a nice aircraft powered by two pieces of junk.’” Nobody I knew in the Tomcat community ever said that. His seven-paragraph history of the AWG-9/AIM-54 Phoenix,
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Apr 13, 2021
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