U.S. Navy Photo of the Day: Goodbye, F-14 Tomcat. We miss you. Thank you for defending the U.S.A.

United States Navy -- Eye on the Fleet ^ | January 15, 2006 | Lithographer's Mate 3rd Class Jonathan Snyder

[Knitebane]

Is that not the most beautiful aircraft ever devised by man?

Obviously spoken by someone that's never pulled an engine. Or crawled under an overwing panel to pull a phase A inspection.

Truth be told, Tomcat's are heavily maintenance intensive. My squadron gave up 12 twenty year old Phantoms for 12 brand-new Tomcats. We racked up more hours keeping the Cats flying.

Like a girl in a darkend bar room, she looks better from a distance than she does up close.

[John Carey]

Great aircraft. I recall when it was "new." Those were the days.

[SandRat]

bttt

[tubebender]

Ping...

[EnjoyingLife]

Towing "Nickel 114", a decomissioned USN F-14A Tomcat fighter jet purchased for $20,000 U.S. Dollars, from
San Angelo Regional Airport, Texas to Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas
13 August 2004

"Tomcat Reports to Goodfellow AFB for Duty at DOD Fire Academy" by U.S. Navy Cryptologic Technician Interpretive 1st Class (SS) Paul Ogg, 4 August 2004: http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=14568

Photo gallery: http://www.navy.mil/list_all.asp?id=14568

Photo 1, USN Image ID: 040813-F-0017M-001, http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/040813-F-0017M-001.jpg , http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=17255

Photo 2, USN Image ID: 040813-F-0017M-002, http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/040813-F-0017M-002.jpg , http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=17256

Photo 3, USN Image ID: 040813-F-0017M-003, http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/040813-F-0017M-003.jpg , http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=17257

Photo 4, USN Image ID: 040813-F-0017M-004, http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/040813-F-0017M-004.jpg , http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=17258

[EnjoyingLife]

F-14 Tomcat History

1. http://www.georgespangenberg.com/dadsbio.htm

2. http://www.georgespangenberg.com/history3.htm (http://www.georgespangenberg.com/gasoralhistory.htm)

3. http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/f014.html

[TexasTransplant]

Great Stuff!

Thank you so much for the links.

TT