http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/an-...imp-1610043625
Sorry if it's already been posted but it was new to me.....
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/an-...imp-1610043625
Sorry if it's already been posted but it was new to me.....
"Hornets by mandate, Tomcats by choice!"
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!
Tomcats were awesome! They just looked badass, just sitting in chocks on the flight line.
Hornets/Superbugs? ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz Lawndarts
NC
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.
I have both "Bye Bye Baby...!" and "Anytime, Baby! Hail and farewell to the US Navy F-14 Tomcat" and love both
You take it easy.. and have a nice day
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.
Fly Navy/Army
USN SAR
DUSTOFF/ARMY PROPS
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!
"Hornets by mandate, Tomcats by choice!"
Odie,
Thanks, didn't have it but do now (ordered), along with just about every title under the "Customers also bought..." banner!
Fly Navy/Army
USN SAR
DUSTOFF/ARMY PROPS
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!
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!
"Hornets by mandate, Tomcats by choice!"
Thanks for the gouge, Odie! Methinks another Kindle purchase is forthcoming!
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