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Grumman F-14A / D Tomcat

by Kazunori Ito

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This is.............Very............ a very famous aircraft.
Nobody might know this aircraft.

This is TOMCAT!!

Though latest F-14D was made acceding to a request
Incidentally nostalgic F-14A has been made.
Moreover, it is F-14A of WolfPack !!
I really misses it.
The plastic model made in childhood still remains in my house. (Though it is of course here and there broken.)
I was able finally to revive it.
It is very very very good-looking. !!

If possible, I want you not to use it in cfs.
I like fighters.
However, I hate combatting.
I thrill when thinking the aircraft that I made launches the bullet and the missile.
Please make my aircraft quietly and freely fly about the sky.

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The F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, variable sweep wing, two-place fighter designed to attack and destroy enemy aircraft at night and in all weather conditions.
Short range, medium range, and long range,It was made as an interceptor that was able to deal with all combats.
And, D-type is a type that improves the ability as the ground attacker.
The F-14 can track up to 24 targets simultaneously with its advanced weapons control system and attack six with Phoenix AIM-54A missiles while continuing to scan the airspace.
Armament also includes a mix of other air intercept missiles, rockets and bombs.
The F-14A Aircraft is the basic platform of the F-14 series. It is equipped with two TF30-P-414A engines. Sixty "core" F-14A Aircraft are being upgraded with the AN/ALR-67 Countermeasure Warning and Control System, LANTIRN and the Programmable Tactical Information Display (PTID). In all F-14 series aircraft, the Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS) will be replaced by the Digital Flight Control System (DFCS). In the late 1970s the Defense Department experienced very substantial engine problems both with the F-14 with the TF-30 engine, and with the F-16 and the F-15 with F-100 engines. They were so serious that there was consideration given to developing new engines for the aircraft, which would have been an enormously difficult undertaking. It was decided instead to make upgrades and improvements in the engines. The engines in the later models of the F-14 are entirely adequate for the purpose. The engines in the F-14As have been improved so that they are also effective, although they are not the engine the Navy would have put in the airplane from the beginning if there had been a more powerful engine design then. In the mid-1990s one change that was made in the F-14 was the introduction of a Digital Flight Control System to the F-14 to prevent the pilot from making an unsafe or unauthorized maneuver, reducing the burden on the pilot to remember what cannot or should not be done under certain conditions. Funding for the new Digital Flight Control System -- about $80 million -- was obtained by reprogramming money in Fiscal 1996. The existing TARPS Pod System will be replaced with the TARPS Digital Imaging System. The Bol Chaff System will be added as part of an integrated modification program. The incorporation of these changes will not change the designation of the F-14A

The F-14D is either a remanufactured F-14A or new production aircraft, both equipped with F110-GE-400 engines, new radar, and new avionics systems. The F-14D provides controls and displays that increase aircrew effectiveness through automation and simplicity. Additionally, the F-14D provides changes to the radar, airframe, electronic countermeasures systems, Naval Flight Officer (NFO) armament control panel, pilot air combat maneuvering panel, and emergency jettison panel which enhance the offensive and defensive posture of the platform. The AN/APG 71 Radar replaces the AN/AWG-9 Radar used in the F-14A/B and has fewer Weapon Replaceable Assemblies (WRAs), thereby reducing both weight and space requirements. The functional expansion is achieved by replacement of AN/AWG-9 analog processing hardware with more flexible digital processing. Major changes were made in the following areas: Signal Processor, Data Processor, Digital Display, Central Processor, Receivers, and Antenna configuration. The Infrared Search and Track System (IRSTS) is a Navy developed system which provides long range detection in the long wave infrared spectrum of both subsonic and supersonic targets. The Air Force common Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) terminal, when installed and integrated, provides secure, jam resistant, high capacity digital data and voice information distribution, and accurate relative navigation capabilities.

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[ Specification ]

Width: min 10.15m - max 19.54m
Length: 19.10m
Height: 4.88m
Wing area: 52.49 square m

Power: JE F110-GE-400 Turbo Fan Engine(122.8kN use after burner) x 2

Empty Weight: 19,838Kg
Max Weight: 32,659kg

Max Speed:
High Altitude - 2,485km/h(mach 2.38)
Low Altitude - 1,468km/h(mach 1.2 )
Cruise Speed: 1,019km/h

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[ About the installation ]

The airframe must copy the \F-14 Tomcat folder as it is in the Aircraft folder of FS2002 or FS2004.

\FS2002(FS2004)
-----\Aircraft
---------\F-14 Tomcat

Please copy all files in the \gauges folder onto the gauge in the Gauges folder of FS2002 or FS2004.
A general gauge is saved for the gauge bundled this time.
737-400, GPS gauges are necessary besides the bundled gauge.
It is necessary to introduce no possession of these gauges separately.

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[ About the operations ]

A special key operation is not used for this model.

/ = Air Brake, Spoiler, Tail Hook Open/Shut
Shift+E = Canopy Open/Shut
F5-F8 = Wing and slit Open/Shut
F1-F4 = Thurottle-Burner-Intake Open/Shut

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[ About free software ]

All aircraft that I made are free software.
The reprint and the repaint may go freely.
However, please defend the following conditions.

1.The change in contents of this file is prohibited.
(Please distribute it like the Zip file of the current state when distributing it. )
2.Please neither reverse-assembly nor never remodel it of the aircraft model.
3.Please open only the texture to the public when you open the repaint to the public.
(Opening in the state to bundle my aircraft model to the public is prohibited. )
4.It is prohibited to bundle and to open a new panel to the public to my aircraft model.
(Please open only the panel to the public.
It is included in this file, and remodeling the panel that uses the panel background and the change in the panel background are prohibited. )
5.I maintain the copyright of the aircraft model and the panel background.
6.The copyright of the gauge belongs to the author.

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[ About the directions point in FS2004 ]

This aircraft model is made by using FSDS Ver2.24.
Therefore, it is possible to play basically in FS2004(FS9).
However........!!
For a wide large-scale aircraft, the distortion is caused and the phenomenon of the aerofoil tip's disappearing happens in the spot shooting mode.
If this phenomenon happens, Please switch to the spot shooting mode by using other small aircraft.
Afterwards, if this aircraft is selected, it is normally displayed.

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Please give mail to the following mail address when there is a recommendation of making the opinion and the thing that doesn't come.

Kazu16643VT@aol.com

2004/11/26
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