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1a. Grumman Aerospace Corporation, 1b. Grumman F-14A TOMCAT

2a. McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 2b. McDonnell Douglas F-4J PHANTOM.

All US Navy aircraft are built to individual type/mission-specific requirements manuals that specify just about everything about the aircraft, its contents and performance requirements. I have seen/read these comprehensive manuals when I was in Flight Test Division at the Naval Missile Center and subsequent Pacific Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, California.

NAS Patuxent River, Maryland has the US Navy Board of Inspection and Survey (BIS) requirement to first flight test and accept a new production aircraft against its contractual requirements including flight characteristics that also include aircraft carrier catapult launch and shipboard recovery done in the adjacent Atlantic Ocean.

Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four-VX-4 at Point Mugu, California at the time had the mission of USN fighter aircraft combat maneuvering flight characteristics performance testing on the adjacent sea test range. The Quiz #85 maneuvering test described was actually done at altitude by VX-4 aircraft assets and found the exact as described results of the swing-wing F-14A in outperforming turn ability against the following F-4J; both were VX--4 flight test assets. Word of this outstanding air-combat maneuvering capability of the F-14 TOMCAT spread quickly aboard the base.

When fully swept (by automated control) the F-14's variable geometry outer wings' trailing edge is exactly parallel with the aircraft's horizontal stabilizers' leading edges, though above them with a short linear gap as viewed from directly above.

I used some unconventional terminology in the quiz on purpose. If I had used RIO-Radar Intercept Officer, for the backseater-it would have been a giveaway IDing the Tomcat, for example.

I thank all who were perplexed by this quiz.