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WATCH: When the Last Operational Tomcats Made History
These F-14 Tomcat ‘Sunset’ Cruise Videos Are Both Awesome and the Last of Their Kind On 10 March 2006, US Navy Fighter Squadron TWO ONE THREE (VF-213) Blacklions Lieutenants Ken…
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When VF-103 Flew Their Tomcats Home To Roost For The Last Time
When the Jolly Rogers of VF-103 departed for their 2004 Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment as part of Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17) aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F Kennedy…
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That Time an F-14 Intercepted a Concorde
The legendary Tomcat had quite a career with the U.S. Navy. Stories of the plane and its crews will live on for years to come, and one interesting tale is…
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The Grumman F-14’s Top Speed: How Fast Can the Tomcat Fly?
When the movie TOP GUN was released in 1986, your author was a fourteen-year-old freshman in high school. I’d been a nut for things with wings for right around four…
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Fan’s Reaction To A Final F-14 Flyover Is Fantastic
Shortly before the Navy retired the F-14 Tomcat, the venerable fighter jet made a final appearance in a flyover of PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Flyovers are always a tremendously…
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The Cougar: Grumman’s First Swept-Winged Fighter
This Grumman Cat was Built on A Winner But Its Career as a Fighter Was Short Indeed The straight-winged Grumman F9F Panther was a workhorse for the US Navy and…
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