Summary and Key Points: In 1991, an F-14 Tomcat from the U.S. Navy’s Ghost Riders squadron experienced a critical in-flight malfunction when its nose cone detached due to a landing mechanism ...

Graphic footage shows the massive ramp strike of a Tomcat in 1993. The footage below was filmed by the Pilot’s Landing Aid Television ... communications. The F-14 has started the final approach ...

Aircraft Carrier pattern and landing of the now retired F-14 Tomcat.” What makes it really cool is not only the fact that it features the mighty F-14 Tomcat, but also that the narration is word ...

And just like that, the Navy’s carrier-based bomber hunter, the F-14 Tomcat, had scored its first ... that could couple the short takeoff and landing capabilities needed for a carrier-based ...

Nicknamed the “Turkey” by the sailors who worked around these warplanes for its “awkward” appearance when landing on a carrier’s flight deck, the F-14 Tomcat was designed by the Grumman ...

The same thing happens with the remaining fuel in the F-14's fuel tanks ... such as in the landing configuration. In the Tomcat, the AIM-9 Sidewinder was placed on Station 1 or 8, which was ...

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is probably the most recognizable ... design--swept back for speed and pushed forward for cruising ...

It is clear that the F-4 Phantom, and later F/A-18 Hornet, fulfilled the Carrier Air Wing's air-to-air mission during the ships post Vietnam lives. Yet, the truth is that the Tomcat did indeed ...

The historic Navy F-14 Tomcat jet fighter in front of a vacant ... and the Grumman-built Lunar Module from the Apollo moon-landing program. Northrop will pay the cost of transporting and ...