Interesting article on the F-14 aircraft/crew.....

[Odie]

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/an-...imp-1610043625

Sorry if it's already been posted but it was new to me.....

[ViperPilot2]

Thanks for the Link, Odie!

Just bought the Kindle version of Bye Bye Baby; looks like an interesting read!

BTW I love your Signature; my sentiments exactly!

[Navy Chief]

Tomcats were awesome! They just looked badass, just sitting in chocks on the flight line.

Hornets/Superbugs? ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz Lawndarts

NC

[Anthin]

Tomcats ruled the skies.Loved watching the displays
at the Abbotsford Airshow in BC.

Talking to the crew was always great.Miss that a lot.

Anthin.

[AusWilko]

I have both "Bye Bye Baby...!" and "Anytime, Baby! Hail and farewell to the US Navy F-14 Tomcat" and love both

[Victory103]

I can always re-read that article. I think I have just about every book on the Tomcat, being a fan well before a certain movie came out and went back to watch VF-84 in another movie as a kid splash 2 Zeros.

For the more recent books with the last actions of the F-14 as a Bombcat, Osprey books "F-14 Units of OEF and OIF" are good to read as well.

[Odie]

Victory103, this is one along the same lines of the OSPREY books, good reading and pics:

http://www.amazon.com/Grumman-Tomcat...ds=f-14+tomcat

If you don't already have it. I'm like you, I have to check my list to make sure I don't already have one before buying!

[Victory103]

Odie,
Thanks, didn't have it but do now (ordered), along with just about every title under the "Customers also bought..." banner!

[ViperPilot2]

Bye Bye Baby was so much fun to read, I couldn't put it down last night!

I understand why the USN had to let the Tomcat go, but boy, did she LIVE!

[Odie]

VP2 - Another fun read is TOP GUN DAYS, written by one of the Navy aviators that did the flying sequences for TOPGUN. It's part movie-history and partly bio on his Navy days. I always
thought the Tomcat was cheated when it didn't get a best actor/supporting actor nomination that year!

[ViperPilot2]

Thanks for the gouge, Odie! Methinks another Kindle purchase is forthcoming!