Tomcat’s First Ride
Mid-September 1974 would see yet another WESTPAC combat deployment for the already-battle hardened USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in [read more...]
Tomcat
Tigers, Dives and 20 mm Cannons
On Friday the 21st, 1956, one of Grumman’s in-house test pilots, Thomas W. Attridge Jr. climed into a borrowed Navy Grumman F11F-1 Tiger (BuNo 138620), taxied out, [read more...]
Spinning Tomcats
Early F-14 Tomcats had serious issues with maneuverability, especially during close-in engagements or dogfights. When the aircraft was positioned at a high angle of attack, [read more...]
303B
This is a post from a while ago that somehow never made it onto the website for our FoldingWing Friday theme, which is generally dedicated to Lambo, Shooter’s and my [read more...]
The Vought V-507
I recently came across a number of pictures of a “Vought Vagabond”, an aircraft bearing a striking resemblance to the Grumman F-14 Tomcat and General Dynamics [read more...]
TOPGUN
Top Gun has been enshrined in the military aviation community as the official movie of fighter pilots. The film, pretty much functioning as one large recruitment commercial, [read more...]
