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Old 09-24-2014, 07:37 PM   #10
Sir Nuke
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TOMCATS are so BADA$$. I was in the NAVY, and stationed of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). So I got to watch those bad boys take off and land and get next to them in person. In person the TOMCAT is huge.....and you see them from the bottom side, you can see quite well they are 2 HUGE engines attached to a wing with a small pod attached at the front of the wing for the pilots. They are very heavy when fully loaded.....so much so that the pilot is ready to launch, he has to throttles up and kick in the afterburners......watching that at night is truly AWESOME.

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The first two are TOMCATS, the ones after that are Hornets

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