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The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft.The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the General Dynamics-Grumman F-111B project.
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No. 19 Squadron RAF, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II in UK service, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II non-U.S. operators, F-14 Tomcat operational history FP category for this image Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air Creator Camera Operator: LCDR Dave Parsons, US Navy. Support as nominator--Hammersfan 13:15, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
An electrical umbilical cord connected the pod to the control panel that was positioned on the left side of the rear cockpit. A hose from the ECS from the F-14 cooled/heated the internals of the pod in flight and kept the appropriate humidity levels constant. In 1987 VF-111 was the first squadron to deploy with a KS-153 camera system in bay two.
VF-31 was the last Tomcat squadron, with the last F-14 flight occurring on 4 October 2006, as BuNo.164603 flew from NAS Oceana to Republic Airport. After spending a year at the American Airpower Museum, the aircraft is now on static display outside of the former Grumman Aerospace Corporation headquarters in Bethpage, NY.
An F-14 Tomcat flies over at near supersonic speeds. Articles this image appears in Fighter aircraft, F-14 Tomcat, VFA-31 Creator User:Dual Freq. Support as nominator Cheers,Je t Lover (Report a mistake) 02:55, 20 October 2007 (UTC) Oppose — not very encyclopedic; the article has much better images than this. BTW, the caption you're proposing ...
English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F-14A-95-GR Tomcat (BuNo 160391) of Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) "Jolly Rogers" in flight. VF-84 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) aboard the the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 1 December 1977 to 20 July 1978.
An F-14 from VF-103 provided close air support and suffered a ruptured hydraulic line. The F-14 declared an in flight emergency and landed without incident at Al Asad Air Base. Repairs took a few days on the base as the starboard engine had to be removed and later the crew flew the F-14 back to the John F. Kennedy.