‘The pilot said he never knew it was missing and only used a little trim for the ACM,’ Ian Harrington,… Read More
F-14D BuNo 164603 ‘Felix 101’ had the distinction of making the final flight by a Navy Tomcat on Oct. 4,… Read More
The RF-4C was performing a simulated recce mission on USS Saratoga when the F-14 pilot became confused and launched a… Read More
The Phoenix missile system alone was far more capable than the Eagle’s AIM-7 Sparrow. Studies indicated 170 F-14 Tomcats could… Read More
Using their F-14 Tomcat (much-improved) Link-16 datalink, LCDR Coby 'Coach' Loessberg and his RIO obtained their targeting data from the… Read More
‘The F-14s dropped while the F/A-18s lased. We egressed the target area having achieved absolutely superb results from direct hits,… Read More
‘Iowa the Air Traffic Controllers could not believe that they had an F-14 Tomcat under their control and so very… Read More
On Aug. 18, 1981 no less than 35 pairs of Libyan interceptors, including a total of 70 MiG-23MS’s, MiG-25Ps, Mirage… Read More
Although MiG-25 Foxbats are not particularly manoeuvrable aircraft, their aggressive manoeuvring during approach, ‘painting’ of US Navy aircraft with their… Read More
“It’s not risky at all with practice… it was my opening pass to a Tomcat tactical demonstration at sea,” Dale… Read More
An investigation revealed that EA-6B jamming pods emissions were one of the principal reasons for communication problems experienced by multiple… Read More
Obtaining quite good intel on the F-14 Tomcat – from the USA – proved quite easy for the KGB. No,… Read More
Key explanatory text within the message was encrypted in "aviator acronyms” - "GF," YGTBSM," WTFO,” and "HS," and other coded… Read More
The last living member of the all Grumman Cat driver’s club is Glenn Tierney — a true icon in Naval… Read More
‘I watched the mishap live on the ship’s closed-circuit PLAT TV and will never forget the sound of the scraping… Read More
The Black Lions F-14 Tomcat pilots completed a tactical assessment that found that against a MiG-sized target, the VID range… Read More
‘We started an ACM engagement and as soon as I got a little G on the airplane, that [radar dome]… Read More
