This one super-bugs me...

From: Rolf Kappe
Date: 7/21/2004 08:53 Pacific Daylight Time

On 20 Jul 2004 23:51:36 GMT, ojunk (Mike Weeks) wrote:

From: "José Herculano"
Date: 7/20/2004 15:04 Pacific Daylight Time

See this pictu

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/624542/L/

I've never seen a picture or movie of a Tomcat doing a display without a
RIO. To my knowledge, there is nothing physical that mandates the RIO in
there for the Turkey to be flown in a demo - take off, do some aerobatics,
land...

Could be wrong, but it's my understanding that the Tom requires a RIO.

It has been a while, but my understanding, from a friend that used to
be a F-14 RIO, was that the controls to align the INS was in the back.
Makes it difficult to fly without one.

My understanding also came from a former F-4/F-14 RIO -- but couldn't recall
what was the requirements in the Tomcat.

MW