Fun Fact it is impossible to Over-G the wings on an F-14! The test pilots found that as G and AOA in
Fun Fact it is impossible to Over-G the wings on an F-14! The test pilots found that as G and AOA increases on the F-14 the body of the aircraft starts acting as the lifting force and takes the G loading off the wings over about 7G and put the loading on the body of the F-14 which can easily take the extra load but did cause some cracking in the tail due to the angular stresses put on it which gave us the "STAPLE" that you may have seen in use on early F-14A's
