>Friday as an F14 decided to make a great deal of noise over my house performing some odd stunt.<
Hi, Kevin: Are you sure it was an F-14 Tomcat?... ;^) ...If it really was, that is very interesting...As far as I know, the Navy retired ALL F-14's several months ago...They have been officially declared "decommissioned"...If it was an F-14, I did not know the Navy stationed them at Whidbey and are still flying them...My guess is that it was an FA18 Hornet, which also has twin engines and twin vertical tail fins, but cannot sweep the wings... The next to last F-14D (# 711) built by Grumman arrived here on Long Island this past week...It has been loaned back to Grumman by the Navy and will be put on a pedestal for permanent display at Grumman's facility...With the limited presence Grumman maintains here, I cannot imagine where they are going to put it...The F-14 is a big airplane...73 Jerry McCarthy, wa2dkg Reftired Grumman employee and member of Grumman Retirees' Club... _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
