I am gathering infos to build my HB F-14A Tomcat and I could not find a site with good photos of te engines which I do not intend to hide inside the plane so I want to try to make a good detailed (painted) engine. I plan to use AMs for the exhaust. Can anybody help me on this? Also, I am using a Sundowner decal sheet . What AIMs would be appropriate for say 1977-78 version?
If you are using the TF30 engine just google it and a bunch of pictures can be found. The other later engine they had was the F110 engines. Again google it and a bunch of pictures will pop up.
As far as the AIM’s go put AIM54, AIM7 and AIM9 on it and you should be right about on target.
If you haven’t already seen this site, there’s a lot of some photo reference and links that may be of interest.
http://www.anft.net/f-14/fw-01.htm
mike
As they said above, Sparrows, Sidewinders and Phoenix missiles would be appropriate, they didn’t start packing PGMs until much later. The loadout tended to vary based on what the 'cat’s mission was. If it was on Deck Launched Intercept in a combat situation , it could pack 6 AIM-54A Phoenix missiles on the fuselage and shoulder stations, with 2 AIM-9L Sidewinders on the outboards. However the Phoenixs would have to be dumped in order for the aircraft to land safely on a carrier, so these were used extremely rarely, and never operationally. On a normal CAP flight they would substitute the 2 shoulder mounted Phoenixs with AIM-7E or AIM-7F Sparrows, and usually in peacetime they would only carry 1 or 2 of the fuselage mounted Phoenixs. Sometimes they would even carry 2-4 sparrows under the fuselage in place of the Phoenixs, but when they did, the special Phoenix racks were left off, and the sparrows were fitted inside special groves in the belly.