The F-14 Heads for Retirement

For those of you who enjoyed the planes from the Tom Cruise flick, Top Gun, there is some sad news this month: the F-14 Tomcat is in the final months of deployment.  As of the end of 2006, the only place to see an F-14 will be in aviation museums.  Yet, it seems the plane's replacement, will not be the ever debated F-22 Raptors.  It looks like the F-18 Super Hornet (that is the CF-18 to us Canadians) will take over the F-14 roll. 

This is just one of those times where a person is able to see time pass.  Most often, we tend not to notice the passage of time all that well.  Holiday's pass, days and weekends go by - but there isn't a daily "recognition of moments".  Thus, today, I see a moment of my past (those brief days of loving the F-14 and wanting to fly them) slip by.

I did a quick search and found a decent tribute video for the F-14 Tomcat.  I raise a glass to you, Tomcat.

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Shane Birley is a blogger, huge geeky nerd, web developer, poet, and creative writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a partner at Left Right Minds, a web development, arts management, business blogging and on line marketing company.

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