It’s a testament to modern engines! I enjoy reading the monthly fleet reports for the engines I work on, they show unscheduled shop visits, reasons why a flight may have been aborted. And then you still have numbers that have a 99.89% reliability rate(or something like that).
Then to think that the Lockheed Constellation was called the “Most reliable 3 engined aircraft” half a decade ago!
Is the hud camera post actually that prominent in the jet? I noticed in the ACL picture, it is almost totally obscuring the carrier at (what I’m assuming is) 15 units of AoA, and in your fight with the Fulcrum it was obscuring HUD symbology.
Is it actually that big, or is this this just a trick of perspective?
4 States, and six different Tomcats later, we wrap up our last research trip for the F-14 with another intense photoshoot, and a cockpit sound recording session!