F-14 Tomcat = Low Speed, High Lift Glider?

[Notorious Nate]

Thought you folks might appreciate this.

Last September a group of my buddies and I built a Red Bull Flugtag glider that was based on an F-14 Tomcat from VF-84. We took first place in the Dallas event with the farthest distance. I got the privilege of designing this thing and it was a fun challenge to turn an F-14 Tomcat into a low speed, high lift glider.

Here's another video of it: http://link.brightcove.com/services...ThX5rxlidOXNrl1KByT_X4gKA&bctid=2684333654001

 

[jmcquate]

"Victory 214.....cold cat"...........that' some impressive jack-assery.

 

[ea6bflyr]

Stab stall

 

[Notorious Nate]

It would have done a bit better if we could have put the stabilator further back, but we were limited to a 20' length and it was right at that.

 

[Fallonflyr]

Looks like that Aero Engineering degree was not wasted.

 

[Renegade One]

...a fun challenge to turn an F-14 Tomcat into a low speed, high lift glider.

Low Speed: CHECK.
High Lift: Meh...not so much…

Nice effort/tribute, though…thanks.

 

[Notorious Nate]

Hey, we were just glad it got off the ground at running speeds. And it's sort of relatively high lift I guess. The airfoil was a low speed/high lift design.

And you're welcome. It was funny too because this Air Force guy tried to get us to wave this Air Force inflatable thing during our skit to get extra votes, but we turned him down like three times. Told him we were all about the Navy. It made our former P-3 guy really happy.