Best jet fighter ever ! (at least the tail)

[+Cliff7600]

I just discovered that :

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630213/posts

 

It seems it didn't had enough of navigation yet... 

 

It might be the F-14B Buno 161429 [<-- see post below ;^)], crashed in 2002 after a compressor stall. Both crew members ejected and rescued.

 

(it took 3 1/2 years for the tail to reach Ireland coast, but it took 10 years for me to know about it xD )

Edited October 20, 2016 by Cliff7600

[Caesar]

Definitely an interesting one.  I'm thinking it wasn't 161429; that one was an F-14B convert (started as an F-14A) and was unlikely to have suffered a compressor stall with the F110s.  Also, 161429 was AD102 when she went in the drink.  You can see a "36" on the rudder of the vert stab, so it's more likely the tail from 162594, a late-build F-14A (block 135) that crashed in 2001, carrying the modex AD136.