To make an aircraft carrier museum exhibit attractive, you need some aircraft, right?
Like all the carriers I’ve been on, the USS Yorktown has a collection of various aircraft on board to show the different types of operations the carrier could perform. This is a view from the rear quarter of an F-14A Tomcat, chained to the flight deck. It’s not that the aircraft is going anywhere but when a hurricane rolls up the Atlantic coast the winds get pretty fierce.
The first Tomcats entered service in 1972 and they were retired from service in 2006. The two Pratt & Whitney TF-30 turbofans with afterburners could take the aircraft up to 1544 mph. Now who clocked that? Why 1544 mph and not 1545 mph? Seems awfully precise.
Thankfully there was no accompanying Top Gun exhibit.
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