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Crew Boarding Ladder
The F-14 - as all US carrier aircraft - has a boarding ladder within the fuselage so that the
aircraft can be accessed independent of ground equipment, which eases operations aboard the
hectic and crowded aircraft carriers.
Several F-14As (at least all F-14A-60-GR) were equipped with a rare kind of steps: It had not two seperate pushbuttons but a single lever handle:
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