Get in-depth details on the F-14 Tomcat from nose to tail, through meticulous 3D renders.
CREDITS
Jacob O’Neal – Research, script, narration, 3D modeling / animation, music
MUSIC
I composed the background music
PATREON
SOFTWARE USED
I use Blender 3D to create these models. It’s free and open source, and the community is amazing:
0:00 Overview
02:56 Engines
07:19 Exhaust Nozzle
10:40 Afterburner
12:59 Inlet Ducts
18:55 Wing Sweep System
20:19 Flight Control Surfaces
23:54 Control Chains
26:22 Landing Gear
29:59 Cockpits
39:51 Pilot
42:10 Fuel System
42:47 Weapons
43:59 Equipment
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Let's get this CORRECTIONS thread heated up fellers. This video is taking off pun intended and attention to detail MATTERS so we're gonna get pedantic up in here! Feel free to ADD YOUR EXPERT TIDBITS. We love that on this channel and are never threatened by accurate info and corrections!!
0:07 It's GRUM-in, like "drum", not GROOM
30:30 It's Radar, not Reconnaisance officer (musta had my SR-71 research brain flare up on me)
31:13 That camera is actually to record the HUD, and combat footage. The HUD is project by some other means that I apparently didn't research properly!
not fuel but oxidizer for the Reheat.
凄いねえ、こういう内容は現役の頃には全部軍事機密だったんだろうね
Wait, this video was almost an hour long? It sure as heck did not felt like it! Amazing job at explaining how many of the complex and even on the simple systems of this acft. I am definitely looking forward to see more from you!
Pretty well according to my GA instructor at the time, former Tomcat pilot. Good instructor; I asked if flying Tomcats was as enjoyable as it was portrayed. He replied: "YOU BET".
amazing video
Do the F15 Eagle next.
I love your videos! However small correction to the engines: the first turbine stage powers the high pressure compressor, the other two power the low pressure compressor on a different shaft. Also the air is pressurized by the aerodynamic forces of rotor and stator. As pressure increases the volume for the same mass of air gets smaller. That's why the channel the air goes through becomes increasingly smaller. Also only a small portion of the compressed air is burned in the combustor. The bigger part is used to shield and insulate the surrounding metal as burning kerosene will melt the engines components
hi jake o'neal, im zie, watcher of aminagraffs
Great video. I learnt a lot of things, especially about the variable nozzles.
45:40 you forgot the wing glove vane
I would love a comparison on the various types of swing wing mechanisms. B-1, F-111, F-14, Tu-140, i think the brits had one too.
43:10 That's not how Sparrows are mounted.
"Grooo man"? Yup instantly stopped.
The International System of Units exist since 1960 to left medieval systems on the past!
Jet fighters are very complex machines. That being said, there's something quite simple about how they work fundamentally.
Dude, your shit is tight! This one too.
Correction: THE IGNITERS MAKE A PLAZMA SPARK APPROXIMATLY 6 INCH LONG. SO ITS NOT SMALL.
The F-14 empty weight grew to about 44k…(with gun ammo included) max trap weight grew to 54K. These are A model numbers but I believe the B had the same rough empty and max trap weights. And yes, those GE 110 engines were a huge improvement over the original PW TF-30's. MGTOW was almost 70Klbs but I never in operations remember any carrier MGTOW above 67Klbs…as it reduced bring back gas available to land at max trap of 54klbs. Ex: 67Klbs with tanks is just under 20klbs of fuel…so no fuel weight is now 47klbs…so max trap fuel weight is about 7klbs. (Assumes 3K in weapons weight-but in DS we carried about 5k of weapons weight). We always knew our T/O weight…as provided this weight to CAT launch personnel on carrier….and we always knew our Max trap fuel weight…as we needed to land at 54klbs or less. So…DS max trap fuel when carrying 5k of ordnance, give we brought it all back, was more like 5k of fuel remaining.
Bro is the Carl Sagan of explaining mechanical marvels!
Dude – you are a legend.
Can you do TIV-2 next … plz🙏 I wanna see how it works
Grooman… 😅 ah
Little side note and more of a nerdy detail: In the configuration that you chose the Tomcat could only carry 1 Aim 7 Sparrow in the "tunnel" between the engines as they where set one infront of the other. So it would be 2 Aim 54 in the front mounted to the phoenix pylons like you did and one Aim 7 in the center behind the two phoenixes. She could carry 4 Aim-7s only of the front two phonix pylons where removed then she would have 2 Aim 7 mounted nex to each other where the phoenix would be and then the other 2 in the center behind it.
Most beautifull fighter ever build! Hope we´ll see some of them in the skys again in the future
"How X works" (no absurd bodily organs in plain sight)
Did WVW fall off?
Thanks for another awesome vid Jake <3 The cockpit looked especially good this time with the lighting and depth of field.
8:44 Darn crow! 😂
excellent
fantastic !
Wow! This is exactly why I'm subscribed! The detail rendered here is off the charts! I have known about the F-14 for decades (and it is one of my favorite aircraft of all time), but I learned more about it over the past 46 minutes than in all of the rest of my life up until I started watching this! Thank you very much!
Make no mistake… The F 14 may be an old school fighter, but it is still a bad mother fucker !!!… Sure it can't do what a 4th or 5th generation plane can do, but this big son of bitch can lay down some serious firepower, and haul ass!. Just like the F15, and F16. Yeah they're old school but can still fuck shit up!.. Especially the new eagle platforms, and the F18 super hornet. Old school can still get the job done.
What a fucking legend. Both Jake and the F-14.
Incredible video. Thanks. Aviation mechanics technician here…
Could you make a video on the F-35?
Also had first microprocessor in the world
Tomcat time, holding back from glorifying rant.
can you please call it gruman and not grueman 😂😂😂
Where are the V, G & B levers?
Bro, I've lived in Aotearoa for the last 39 years of my life (I'm 39 btw).
Tonorrow I fly out for Perth, the most remote city in the world.
Not because Aotearoa is dangerous, it's actually the most beautiful place on earth.
But increasingly over the last few years it has become more difficult to survive here.
Kia kaha, keep up the good work, look after those chickens, look after yourself.