Grumman F-14 TOMCAT
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Grumman F-14 TOMCAT – By Keith Ferris
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Canvas Print Size: 24″ X 19″
The artist can choose a moment in time or a vantage point from which to view his subject that a photographer would find almost impossible to duplicate.
The F-14A production fighter had yet to fly and the test aircraft had not landed aboard an aircraft carrier when this painting appeared in an ad for the manufacturer of the F-14’s engines’ main fuel pumps. I chose to show both the aircraft carrier and the F-14 from the point in time and space where the aircraft intercepts the glideslope for its approach to land on the ship. This would be the last position where the Tomcat’s wings could be seen at an angle to the horizon, with the added advantage of placing the ship adjacent to the aircraft canopy from our viewing point.
Grumman estimated this point to be 8,300 feet out at an altitude of 600 feet on a glideslope of 3° with the F-14 in a 42° nose-high attitude. Flaps would be down at 35° and speed brakes would be open at 60°. Accurate three-view drawings were provided for the production F-14 and I obtained drawings of the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise.
The viewer sees the F-14A and the carrier as developed by descriptive geometry from a position 23 feet above and slightly right of centerline from 76 feet behind the aircraft. The artist has the added advantage of choice in weather, heading and time of day, placing the sun exactly where it will be working for him.
Chandler Evans Control Systems Div., Colt Industries
Original painting: 27″ x 40″ Oil (1972)
