CF-14

The CF-14-Eh Tomcat?

February 15, 2015 // 3 Comments

The year was 1977, and the Canadian Department of National Defence had just kicked off their New Fighter Aircraft program to replace their aging fleet of CF-101 Voodoos, [read more...]

Dropping a Fully-Loaded Super Hornet 20 Feet

by Ian D'Costa in The Ready Room

Aircraft designed to operate from the decks of seagoing aircraft carriers need to have extremely resilient landing gear, allowing them to withstand the effects of carrier landings, which tend to be incredibly rough. Often referred to as a “controlled crash”, these landings basically involve the plane touching down on the angled deck of [read more...]