Flying the F-14 Tomcat - TOPGUN Boss, Jim "Rookie" Robb (Part 2)
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Rear Admiral (ret.) Jim "Rookie" Robb flew F-14s for 25 years, accumulating 4,000 hours on type in the process.
This is the second part of a two-part 10 Percent True interview, in which Robb discusses attending TOPGUN as a student, instructor and Commanding Officer, and reflects on the air combat manoeuvring characteristics of the F-14. He also sheds light on some of the analytical thought process behind comparing fighter performance.
You can see Robb at TOPGUN as a student in the following film, but these guys wanted me to pay $25 per second to put it in my video, and that's just greedy. So, take a look for free when you're done watching my video! • U.S. NAVY TOP GUN NA...
Robb flew an exchange tour with the US Air Force's 4477th TES, Red Eagles, and commanded the Navy component responsible for flying CONSTANT PEG sorties.
His experiences as a student flying against America's MiGs were captured on the opening pages of my book, "Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs": www.amazon.com...
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this channel deserves way more attention!
Thank you :) I'm not great at marketing it, so if you have any suggestions then I am all ears...
I like the addition of the videos. Much more compelling than just listening to the podcast, at least on TH-cam which is visual compared to a podcast where maybe you’re listening to when driving.
Thanks, Robert. It's sometimes tricky to find video that is not under copyyright and is available for free use.
I was watching another channel and so many people were asking about the F14 and why aren`t we using them now.I love getting the answers from a seasoned pilot who flew them,they stalled,big airplane,smoke trails, and,maneuvering at high altitudes,wings back,high angle of attack spins and loss of aircraft.I am learning, and this is interesting to me.People live in the dream world of the Hollywood version,Top Gun,but this Veteran Pilot, explains the real functioning of the aircraft and it`s capability.Nice, that like anything ,it looks sexy,but how does it aerodynamically function in real combat,it is not a choreographed dance when bullets,and missiles are flying over your head!!Thank You for letting us listen to a real Top Gun.Much continued success with your channel....Jan
Thanks for your continued support, Jan. I agree that listening to a 4,000-hour Tomcat pilot is a great way of quickly building an appreciation for the realities of air combat.
Those issues were with the old F-14s with TF-030 engines including smoke trails. The only exception was the high altitude IMN wing sweep back. It was designed for ACM below 30,000 feet and only to go very fast at 30,000+ feet. Like he said, you could do things in the F-14, that were not possible in other fighters since he flew F-16 and F-18s as well. Once the GE-F110 engines were installed, mind you towards the end of the lifecycle none of those were issues. It was killed due to politics favoring cheaper, low maintenance and less capable multi role including Iran. Ultimately, its capabilities were never replaced.
I served with, at the time, LCDR Robb in VF-32 aboard Independence. Remember him well, nice guy, very approachable. Down to earth. I believe he was the Maintenance Officer of the squadron at the time. We had a perfect safety record and an extremely high sortie rate too.
Thanks for sharing your recollections!
Love the podcast so much.
Is there a part 3 coming? Part 2 just cut off mid sentence. .
Thank you, Kent. Sadly, that was it for Jim Robb's interview. Sorry for the poor editing and lack of outro. I did ask Jim whether he'd come back on and talk about Bear hunting (of the Tupolev kind!) in Alaska. Here's hoping he agrees!
I'm not a youtuber or content creator, just here to say my view on this channel: (Sorry for bad English...)
Content seems to be fine. Podcast or long videos about a specific field like combat aircrafts, and interviews with aged people about technical topics have less chance of getting much views.
So some of combat jet content creators started to do some other things:
They spiced up the channel by debates or adding controversial opinions about jets and pilots and trashing other nation jets etc. May not be a good behaviour but well, it gain views...
- Adding a simulator content helps, Like flying short dogfights or even demonstrating tactics by pilots in DCS. Very hard to do, expensive, but I guarantee more views especialy if you interconnect this content from twitch to fb to Instagram to youtube. (Again very hard and time consuming, but with good results.)
- You need to do some motion graphics on intros, logo loops, transitions, and a bit color correction and updaring the interview layouts Your logo is so minimal and hard to memorize.
- Your friends relatives and youtube friends have to share and engage your content. (Hard as hell but it works perfectly with YT algorithm.)
5- I know you do not monitize or making money from sponsers to make these videos. But after you set your channel with good diverse content and good logo and intro graphics, the last stage is to put some short funny or heated discussion or your top content video on the top of the channel and pay a bit for advertising in geniune popular channels not buying fake views etc. It works like a charm.