America Rules!
I think the coolest part of air shows is when they bring out the most powerful planes on the planet, then put them through their paces. This F-14 had just taken off (you can see the landing gear is still in the process of being retracted) and the pilot was pouring the juice to the goose. You can't watch a demonstration like this and not be impressed. It makes you proud to be an American.
Awesome picture! This took off from the Lakeland airport?!?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-16-navy-tomcat_x.htm
ReplyDelete....... is too bad really ......... this craft just almost landed me in the military
Really seem to be quite the aircraft and America buff. You did however get the model wrong. The picture is not of a F-14 Tomcat, that is a F-15 Eagle.
ReplyDeleteI just take pretty pictures, I don't pay any attention to what I'm looking at. Sorry. The airshow is coming up again in a month or so. Maybe I'll get it right this year.
ReplyDeleteOh, and here's a post where I called in an F-14 that you missed:
http://ernienotbert.blogspot.com/2007/01/end-of-january.html