# F-14 TOMCAT PROGRESS REPORT #5 THE OPERATIONAL TOMCAT 79574

Hosted by Rear Admiral Leonard "Swoosh" Snead, the Navy's project manager for the F-14 Tomcat, this 1974 movie provides an update to the on-going efforts to put the aircraft with the fleet. The film shows the remarkable efforts the Grumman employed to test, manufacture, and deploy this remarkable fighter. At this point only 13 aircraft had been delivered from Northrop Grumman to Miramar, and the plane's potential was not fully known. The film shows VF-1 and VF-2 beginning independent operations, and shows VR-124 working the Navy's newest aircraft as twice the expected rate. At 1:47 a tour of the maintenance and training facilities is seen, with aircrews being trained with flight simulators and "self study corrals". Color 3/4" videotapes are shown being used to train pilots on aircraft systems. At 2:34 the full-scale cockpit flight trainers are seen. At 4:12 , maintenance tasks with the aircraft's jet engine is shown, and at 4:40 a full-scale fuel system demonstrator is shown. At 4:44 , a flight control system simulator is shown. At 5:50 , the readiness squadron 124 is shown with crews being trained, while weapons trials are on-going at Paxtuxent River, Maryland and at Pt. Mugu, California. At 6:30 , a missile firing using the Aim-7, Sidewinder, and Phoenix are shown. The F-14's gun is shown firing at 7:00 . At 7:12 , the HUD heads up display is shown in action, with Grumman-developed tracking system. At 7:40 , drone targets are intercepted by an F-14A and four Phoenix…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/79574F14ProgressReport5TheOperationalTomcatRexfer)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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