Subject: Re: (Silly Week 2008) Submission #2
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "S. Robert Sliger II" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:48:18 -0800

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: S. Robert Sliger II 
  To: ARC Submissions 
  Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 8:31 PM
  Subject: (Silly Week 2008) Submission #2

  F-14B Tomcat 

  by Bud Sliger
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        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here  

  F-14B “White-23”

  VX-9 “Vampires”

  NAS Fallon

  2004

    (Excerpt from the Navy Times)

   Dateline: NAS Fallon, NV 

      Today a historical event took place as the last F-14 Tomcat of Fleet Test Squadron VX-9 was handed over to the Navy’s premier ‘Topgun’ combat school in Nevada. The F-14B, still finished in its eye-catching gloss black paint scheme and full color markings, some what rare these days in an air arm that is normally overall gray, is only one of four aircraft that the school has acquired for combat training. “It’s a rush” pilot Lt. Natalie “Heart Break” Tennyson remarked. “The F-14 is the only aircraft in the world that does the mission it was designed to do”. “Only the F-14 can track multiple targets over a hundred miles away and engage eight of those targets at the same time” commented Capt. Jerry “Bradshaw” Douglas, who is an F-14 Radar Intercept Officer. The Navy’s Naval Strike Air Warfare Center, which is located at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada, now has four of the F-14s in use and plans on keeping then in service until 2010.

  This started as a joint effort between me & my girlfriend at the time, we used the pathetic Zhengdufu 1/72 F-14B kit with the decals coming from my stash of leftovers. I mention her & one of the Aviation professors at La. Tech in the write-up.

  Photos and text © by Bud Sliger

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