Ho voluto riprodurre in dettaglio le livree selezionabili per questo aereo nel videogioco per PS2 Ace Combat: Squadron Leader, il mio shoot-em up preferito. Il disegno è stato realizzato con Illustrator, mentre il colore è Photoshop.
Diversi tentativi furono fatti per migliorare il Tomcat fin dall'inizio degli anni '80. Il suo principale problema era la scarsa affidabilità dei suoi motori Pratt & Whitney: furono persi in incidenti diversi F-14A per questa ragione.
La soluzione arrivò con l'adozione dei motori General Electric F110: il risultato fu la nascita dell'F-14B Tomcat plus (originariamente battezzato F-14A+). Più potenti (tanto da consentire il decollo da portaerei senza l'uso del postbruciatore), meno assetati di carburante e soprattutto molto più affidabili, i nuovi motori erano perfetti per l'F-14. Per la prima volta poi, furono sfruttate le capacità multiruolo del Tomcat, il cui software avionico aveva da sempre previsto l'utilizzo di armi per l'attacco al suolo. Da qui il soprannome "Bombcat". E' molto difficile distinguere un F-14B da un F-14A dall'esterno. L'unica differenza visibile sono i diversi ugelli di scarico dei motori, che nel Tomcat plus sono più grandi e di forma differente.
La mimetica Yuktobana in basso, per puro caso, è quasi identica a quella che avevo disegnato per il Tomcat quando ero ragazzino, più di dieci anni fa!
Title - F-14B Tomcat profile Ink - Vectors Color - Digital Software - Adobe Photoshop CS / Adobe Illustrator CS2 Hardware - Macintosh PowerPC G5 Original - xxx Date - winter 2007
I wanted to reproduce in detail the livery for this aircraft selectable in the PS2 video game Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, my favorite shoot-em up. The lineart was done with Illustrator, the rendering with Photoshop.
Several attempts were made to improve the Tomcat since the beginning of the '80s. His main problem was the unreliability of its P&W engines: many F-14A were lost in accidents for this reason.
The solution came with the adoption of the General Electric F110 engines: the result was the birth of the F-14B Tomcat Plus (originally named F-14A +). These engines were more powerful (so powerful to allow the takeoff from aircraft carrier without the use of afterburner), less thirsty for fuel and above all more reliable; the new engines were perfect for the Tomcat. For the first time then, the Tomcat's multi-role capability were exploited: the F-14 avionics software had always planned to use weapons for ground attack; hence the nickname "Bombcat". It's very difficult to distinguish an F-14B from an F-14A from the outside. The only visible difference are the different engine exhaust nozzles, which in Tomcat plus are larger and differently shaped.
Trivia: the Yuktoban camouflage at the bottom, coincidentally, is almost identical to one designed by me for the Tomcat when I was a kid!
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