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The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy 's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the General Dynamics-Grumman F-111B project.
A plane director guides an F-14 Tomcat aircraft into position over a catapult on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV 60). Camera manufacturer: NIKON: Camera model: Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 8000 ED: Author: PH1 WILLIAM SHAYKA: Orientation: Normal: Horizontal resolution: 300 dpi: Vertical resolution: 300 dpi: Software used: Adobe ...
English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F-14A-95-GR Tomcat (BuNo 160391) of Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) "Jolly Rogers" in flight. VF-84 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) aboard the the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 1 December 1977 to 20 July 1978.
The dogfighting dynamo was designed to win a war that never happened. Several decades—and one star-making turn in Top Gun—later, it’s now an endangered species.
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The F-14 primarily conducted air-to-air and reconnaissance missions with the U.S. Navy until the 1990s, when it was also employed as a long-range strike fighter. [2] It saw considerable action in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf and was used as a strike platform in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq until its final deployment with the United States in 2006.
The Air Force has awarded the Silver Star to a female airman for the first time following her role in the shootdown of more than 80 Iranian drones that were part of Iran's large missile and drone ...
Now it houses many of the larger aircraft in the museum's collection. These aircraft include the Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17, Bell AH-1E Cobra, and Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor. It also includes a replica of the Beecraft Wee Bee and several racing aircraft, and two Ford cars on loan from the San Diego Automotive Museum.