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The F-14 Tomcat of Top Gun fame once made one of the most dangerous carrier landings imaginable. Aviation Geek Club recounts Captain John ‘Hawk’...
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The F-14 Tomcat of Top Gun fame once made one of the most dangerous carrier landings imaginable. Aviation Geek Club recounts Captain John ‘Hawk’...
The Cold War had its races, and one played out 60 nautical miles north of Scotland in 1976. During NATO’s Teamwork exercise an F-14A...
The Pentagon forced the Navy and Air Force to share one jet in the 1960s. The Air Force’s F-111A delivered 25,000 to 30,000 pounds...
Iran is the F-14 Tomcat’s sole operator. The Shah took delivery of 79 to counter Iraq’s MiG-25s, and in the Iran-Iraq War Tehran claimed...
Summary and Key Points: The F-14D Super Tomcat replaced the F-14A’s stall-prone TF30 engines with GE F110s, gained roughly 60 percent more strike range,...
Summary and Key Points: Expert Caleb Larson reports Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet’s earnings-call pitch to keep the F-35 the “most numerous, most important”...
The F-14 Tomcat was designed around a Pratt & Whitney F-401 engine that was not ready in time, so Grumman used the TF-30 from...
In 1972 Grumman painted an F-14 Tomcat in Air Force markings and pitched it to replace the F-106 as North America’s bomber interceptor, with...
Grumman’s answer to the 1990s question of what would replace the F-14 was another Tomcat. The Super Tomcat-21 would have swapped in upgraded GE...
From about 1982 the SR-71 Blackbird flew ‘Tomcat Chase’ sorties against Navy F-14s over the Pacific and ‘Eagle Bait’ against Air Force F-15s in...