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Here's a photo I took of an F-14 that had stopped over at Sheppard AFB in the early 80's. https://imgur.com/Ji55Vgv https://imgur.com/Ji55Vgv And another one

by chiph 4y ago

Here's a photo I took of an F-14 that had stopped over at Sheppard AFB in the early 80's. https://imgur.com/Ji55Vgv https://imgur.com/Ji55Vgv And another one next to an A-10. Notice how substantial the landing gear is on the F-14 compared to the A-10, and the A-10 was designed for landings on improvised runways... https://imgur.com/GMupZaq https://imgur.com/GMupZaq

Kubuxu 4y ago
It’s due to carrier landing requirements. When landing on carrier, you don’t flare the aircraft, you just dump it on deck with significant vertical speed. At least that is what you do with F-18 (with 200-400feet per minute descend rate), I would assume F-14 is the same for all the same reasons. In short, carrier landings are closer to controlled crashes over the thing that everyone is calling landings.