(May 23, 2016 at 6:19 pm)c172 Wrote: I loved F-14s as a kid. My aforementioned BFF was into F-16s and we argued over it. We agreed that SR-71's were super cool, though.
In the USAF, I was stationed at Carswell AFB right across the runway from General Dynamics, the factory building the 'sixteen. every nine or ten days they'd finish one and put it through a test-flight, about five minutes of mind-boggling aerobatics. I think the '16 climbs faster and the turn rate is about the same, maybe an edge to the '16 there as well. But on load-out, the '14 with its Phoenix can kill a '16 well before the latter's targeting range, much less its kill zone.
