The videos below show an incident that occurred aboard USS Independence (CV-62) in 1995. On Apr. 18, 1995 a VF-21 F-14 Tomcat was blown off the flight deck of “Indy” by another Tomcat that was ...

The videos below show an incident that occurred aboard USS Independence (CV-62) in 1995. On Apr. 18, 1995 a VF-21 F-14 Tomcat was blown off the flight deck of “Indy” by another Tomcat that was about ...

Kennedy (CV-67) and its battle group were dispatched ... Gillcrist in his book Tomcat! The Grumman F-14 Story. At 11:58:43 the US fighters leveled off at 3,000 feet and 475 knots, while the ...

The shift from the F-14 to the F/A-18 seems now as an early harbinger of the military’s shift from ultra-specialized fighters ...

F-14 Tomcats against A-7 Corsairs. Baranek and Switzer completed their mission and at 5:15 PM were ready to land aboard their aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CV-64), sailing in the Indian Ocean.

The F-14 was a big fighter, and the tighter flight decks on these refitted Midway Class ships were a bit of an issue. But they did operate E-2 Hawkeyes regularly and even A-3 Whale derivatives ...

The photo in this post (see here) shows the remains of VF-51 Screaming Eagles F-14A Tomcat BuNo 162602 after a ramp strike upon landing aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). This F-14 ramp strike and ...

“The left side of the lead Libyan aircraft lit up with a big flame as the missile motor ignited,” recounted Lieutenant Larry “Music” Muczynski, one of the two F-14 Tomcat pilots. That ...