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F-14A?


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This might be the replica cockpit described by the author of 'Top Gun Day's'. The films art department went all out and measured up a Tomcat cockpit (certainly the rio's pit, and I think the forward cockpit as well) for all the blue sky scenes where maverick and goose are turning and burning. They tried filming many of the scenes in the rear cockpit of an F14, but the results were said to be horrible, so after that they filmed it on the ground.

 

 

It was supposedly a fairly accurate replica, but the guy who made it tapped up a real rio about what all the labels said. You wont see them in the film, but the perfectionist in him wanted it right.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Topgun-Days-Dogfighting-Cheating-Hollywood/dp/1620871033/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=top+gun+days&qid=1561377629&s=gateway&sr=8-1

 

 

 

 

 

I wonder if it survived. It would save them a ton of money for Top Gun 2. :D

 

cool, I'll have to read that, thanks!

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This panel is usually in the RIO pit and only in the F-14A. Its used to the test a valve within the engine compressor duct (don't recall exactly between which stages though) that ejects part of the compressed air into the fan duct, thereby increasing stall margin at the cost of compressor effciency.

 

 

 

I had no idea bypass valves were a thing in jets! They use them on turbocharged cars for that reason since closing a throttle behind the compressor will immediately provoke surge.

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