F-14 TOMCAT Full Afterburner Take off back in 1996

When you lay your eyes on a marvel of engineering like the F-14 Tomcat, it’s hard not to appreciate all of the hard work and dedication that has gone into making the fighter jet fly like no other machine in the sky.

This time, we check out a little flashback to 1996 that shows some vintage footage (yeah, 1996 is vintage at this point… scary right?) of a Tomcat going full afterburner!

It’s a sight to see as this thing lights up and takes on the sky and screams up into the air like the amazing machine that it was designed to be.

Check out the video below that shows off the impressive scene at the airbase and tell us what you think of this little Tomcat throwback that is now 20-years-old!