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'I used to have to fly the engines; now I fly the airplane,' one Tomcat pilot told museum docent Orrin Messinger, and a Grumman...
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'I used to have to fly the engines; now I fly the airplane,' one Tomcat pilot told museum docent Orrin Messinger, and a Grumman...
The F-14D added the AN/APG-71 radar, LANTIRN, JTIDS, IRST and four JDAMs. The last Tomcat combat mission launched from USS Theodore Roosevelt on February...
No new parts may be built under the bill, so F-14D Tomcat restorers must work from Navy stocks. The F110 engines are the easy...
The Navy walked out of the joint program with the Air Force because it did not believe a shared design could survive carrier operations,...
Grumman pitched the ST-21 in the early 1990s as either a new-build jet or a remanufactured F-14, as the Navy looked for a way...
The TF30 wanted smooth, straight airflow, which it got on the F-111 but not on a fighter pulling hard turns at high angles of...
The F-14 was built to stop Soviet bombers and cruise missiles before they reached the carrier. A pilot and a radar intercept officer could...
The Pratt & Whitney TF30 began in 1958 as a proposal for a short-haul jet airliner. It ended up in the F-14 Tomcat because...
After the US Navy retired the F-14 in 2006, investigators found sensitive Tomcat components were still entering public surplus sales. Iran remained the only...
The F-14D left the Navy while it was still fighting — a final combat sortie over Iraq in February 2006, the retirement ceremony seven...