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From: welty@sol.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F-14 went to Viet Nam????
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.013439.26003@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 12 Jan 91 01:34:39 GMT
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From: welty@sol.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

[crossposted to sci.military, where the question was asked,
and to rec.arts.movies, where the misinformation is evidently being
spread.  followups to rec.arts.movies -- rpw]

In article <1991Jan10.025037.3027@cbnews.att.com>, Ron Miller writes: 
*An assertion has been made over in rec.arts.movies that the F-14 was
*deployed to carriers whose A-6 aircraft were flying missions in Viet Nam. 
*(Subject is the movie "Flight of the Intruder")

*Can anyone shed some facts and references on the subject?
*Dates, perhaps?

according to the 1981-82 Jane's All the Worlds Aircraft, we
have the following dates:

15 January 1969:   Grumman announces that they've won the
   Navy's design competition for a new fighter-interceptor,
   the VFX cometition
21 December 1970:  First flight, F-14A Tomcat prototype
??:                First aircraft lost in non-fatal
   testing accident
24 May 1971:       Testing resumes with second prototype
?? June 1972:      Carrier trials commence
?? September 1974: Becomes operational on USS Enterprise in
   Western Pacific, with squadrons VF-1 and VF-2

as you can see, the F-14 was just a couple of years too late
for any major involvement in 'nam.  the principal fighters
for the USN in 'nam were the F-4 and the F-8.

richard
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