F-15 Eagle and F-14 Tomcat

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Yeff" wrote in message
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The F-15 has a better Hollywood agent...

Hmmm..., I recall the F-14 being featured in a major Hollywood production,
not so the F-15.

I have no dog in this fight, but didn't

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091278/

feature the F-15?

IIRC there was even a sequel (which probably sucked g).

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"Blinky the Shark" wrote:
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Yeff" wrote in message
...

The F-15 has a better Hollywood agent...

Hmmm..., I recall the F-14 being featured in a major Hollywood
production,
not so the F-15.

I have no dog in this fight, but didn't

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091278/

feature the F-15?

F-16's

IIRC there was even a sequel (which probably sucked g).

The original sucked and the studios made 3 more.

Brett wrote:

"Blinky the Shark" wrote:
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Yeff" wrote in message
...

The F-15 has a better Hollywood agent...

Hmmm..., I recall the F-14 being featured in a major Hollywood
production,
not so the F-15.

I have no dog in this fight, but didn't

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091278/

feature the F-15?

F-16's

Oh. Well, awright, then.

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On 5 Jul 2004 23:21:46 GMT, Blinky the Shark
wrote:

Brett wrote:

"Blinky the Shark" wrote:
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Yeff" wrote in message
...

The F-15 has a better Hollywood agent...

Hmmm..., I recall the F-14 being featured in a major Hollywood
production,
not so the F-15.

I have no dog in this fight, but didn't

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091278/

feature the F-15?

F-16's

Oh. Well, awright, then.


Iron Eagle shudder F-16s
Air Force One F-15s
Top Gun F-14s
Independence Day F-18s
Behind Enemy Lines F-18E (and a missile evasion sequence that makes
Iron Eagle look like a tape from Red Flag for authenticity)

"Thomas J. Paladino Jr." wrote in
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"robert arndt" wrote in message
om...
(Chris Range) wrote in message
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I have an utterly stupid question. What is the difference between
these two fighters? From a distance, they look exactly the same.




Just looking at the rear of each plane,the F-15 has it's tailpipes inboard
of the rudders,while the F-14 has the rudders right over the tailpipes.

The F-15 has a clipped delta wing,while the F-14 has swingwings.

F-14 is a carrier-based interceptor,while the F-15 is a fixed runway air
superiority fighter(-E version also ground attack)

--
Jim Yanik
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"Blinky the Shark" wrote in message
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I have no dog in this fight, but didn't

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091278/

feature the F-15?


No, the F-16 was featured in that piece of crap.



IIRC there was even a sequel (which probably sucked g).


I didn't see it, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:06:31 GMT, Thomas J. Paladino Jr. wrote:

"Yeff" wrote in message
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On 4 Jul 2004 18:40:06 -0700, Chris Range wrote:

What is the difference between
these two fighters?

The F-15 has a better Hollywood agent...


You're thinking of the F-14.

Read what I meant, not what I typed! g

-Jeff B. (who fat-fingered the five)
yeff at erols dot com

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 02:19:45 GMT, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Blinky the Shark" wrote in message
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I have no dog in this fight, but didn't

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091278/

feature the F-15?


No, the F-16 was featured in that piece of crap.



IIRC there was even a sequel (which probably sucked g).


I didn't see it, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

The "Iron Eagle" series achieved the physical impossibility of both sucking
and blowing at the same time.

-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com

Yeff wrote:

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 02:19:45 GMT, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Blinky the Shark" wrote in message
...

I have no dog in this fight, but didn't

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091278/

feature the F-15?

No, the F-16 was featured in that piece of crap.

IIRC there was even a sequel (which probably sucked g).

I didn't see it, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

The "Iron Eagle" series achieved the physical impossibility of both sucking
and blowing at the same time.

Doesn't that make it a turbine engine?

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(B2431) wrote in message ...
From: (robert arndt)


(Chris Range) wrote in message
.com...
I have an utterly stupid question. What is the difference between
these two fighters? From a distance, they look exactly the same.


Well, in rather simplistic terms the F-15 Eagle is a terrestrial-based
(land dependent) USAF premiere air superiority fighter that was later
adapted into a limited strike aircraft in the E-model. A further
paint-scraped version was used for a series of world speed and height
records before losing them to the Su-27 Flanker.
The F-14, OTOH, is a naval carrier-based fleet defense interceptor
with swing-wings, a backseat RIO, and a nasty ultra long-range
Maverick missile for knocking out (back a couple decades ago)
predicted enemy "Bear" long-range Soviet bombers.

Teuton, congratulations, you have set a new low for yourself. Mavs are air to
ground.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

See thread apology/correction. It would be nice if you actually
bothered to read all the posts in the thread before commenting.
Somebody already corrected the slight mistake(which just about
everyone makes here at RAM from time to time)and I thanked him for it.
Everything else I said about the F-14 and F-15 was right on the money.

Rob