"behind the iron curtain" info on F-14

Hi. I asked this on RAM, but nobody answered.

I am looking at scanned Soviet document from 1984 that lists performance data on
F-14A for VVS information. Document is at
http://www.airwar.ru/other/bibl/f14book.html.

Some things listed a

Speed at 13,000m altitude: 1980kph (M1.87)

Accel. at wing sweep angle 40o:
At 1km alt, from 600 to 1,100kph... 22.3 sec
At 5km alt, from 800 to 1,300kph... 131,0 sec

Max energy climb (M.8-.9, 40o)
At alt 1km...170 m/sec
At alt 5km...132 m/sec
At alt 11km...51 m/sec

Min stationery turn radius at ws 40o:
Alt 1km-600m, 23 sec
Alt 5km-950m, 34 sec
Alt 11km-2980m, 71 sec

There are also engine performance diagrams (TF-30-P-412A).

What is interesting that in limitations is mentioned bomb (on 1984 Tomcat!) angle
of 55o, flaps/slats usage prohibitionM1, prohibited intentional spin, forbidden
extending of destabilizators in range M.9-1.3. There is also information that on
169,937 flying hours Tomcats had 83 incidents with 31 lost aircraft (11 last due
to engine malfunction).

Is this all some "magazine" information, since that engine diagrams looked kinda
"western" to me? :-)

Is this anything close to real Tomcat 1984 perf data? Or it is just "officialized"
AW&ST info?

Nele

How do you view that doc?

hummmm...

what is a "ru" file?

~^ beancounter ~^ wrote:
hummmm...

what is a "ru" file?

If you're referring to the link provided, it's a Russian web page.
But, you knew that, didn't you.

It is in AT&T DJVU format, something like TIFF (multipage).There are multiformat
viewers like IrfanView with plugins and ACDsee that open that file.

Nele


"John Keeney" wrote in message
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~^ beancounter ~^ wrote:
hummmm...

what is a "ru" file?

If you're referring to the link provided, it's a Russian web page.
But, you knew that, didn't you.