Grumman F-14A
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@VDK - as far as I’m aware, the only real change between the A and the B are the engines and the kick in performance.
But from the A to the D, there are quite a few changes in the cockpit, including new NACES seats, as well as a number of external add-ons.
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The F-14A+ was renamed to F-14B on 1st May 1991. It’s the same aircraft. Originally the A+/B introduced the F110-GE-400 engine, a (new?) purge gas system for the gun. AN/ALR-67v(2) RWR, AN/ALQ-126B ECM, Direct Lift Control and updates to the radar and weapon control system. Some A and all Bs received further upgrades throughout the 90s, incl. DFCS, BOL chaff dispensers, updated displays, EGI, LANTIRN and precision guided weapons integration.
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He’ll everyone !
I am still no expert of F-14, then I need your help.
If one day we make a F-14A cockpit, I am not sure what it means for front seat attributions.
F-14 was designed with à RIO as the backbone of the aircraft that’s a fact.
For this reason : would it be reasonable according to you to make a front seat cockpit only ?
I need your extensive advised here, feel free to give any feedback you have !
Radium
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@Radium not an expert myself, but if you don’t mind, for what it’s worth I’d still say the f14 is unusable without the back seater. So maybe if/when we get multiseat aircraft?
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@dumba Hi ! For now, two seaters are not possible…
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Hello,
According to the feedback I had from different places… There will be no cockpit for this project.
Cheers,
Radium
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@Radium Will you make a “cockpit wing model”? If you make a “cockpit wings model” we can use it with the F-18D cockpit. It would be a temporary solution, but it’s better than nothing.
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@buraktunahan Hello,
We will see…
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To be honest I’d be pretty happy with this.
@buraktunahan said in Grumman F-14A:
I’m really glad your project includes all F-14 Tomcat versions.
I would also like to touch upon the cockpit issue. As you know, there is currently no cockpit for the F-14. I found a temporary solution to this problem in the past years. I made a small edit to the F-18D cockpit with Photoshop. The result wasn’t bad at all. (I’ve added a few screenshots of this F-14 cockpit below.)
I need to work on this cockpit again right now. Because the files change in every version of BMS. But I think we can get by with this until a real F-14 cockpit is built.
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@JTnero Yes but no ! At least, I will try to modify the source file if so.
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What is the latest status on your project?
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@buraktunahan Nothing to communicate here for now. Still gathering references.
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@Radium, since you are starting An-22, is there any update on F-14?
Thanks my friend!
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@VDK Antonov An-22 is almost finished and should be published pretty soon (perhaps at the end of the week or so). For F-14A, I am still hunting for references.
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@Radium said in Grumman F-14A:
I am still hunting for references.
What do you need? Maybe we can help…
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@VDK No you can’t really help, but thank you for your offer !