Grumman F-14 Tomcat: Bye - Bye, Baby.!: Images & Reminiscences from 35 Years of Active Service

Parsons, Dave; Hall, George; Lawson, Bob

ISBN 10: 0760325766 / ISBN 13: 9780760325766

Published by Zenith Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grumman F-14 Tomcat: Bye - Bye, Baby.!: Images & Reminiscences from 35 Years of Active Service
• Publisher: Zenith Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0760325766
• ISBN 13: 9780760325766
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, variable sweep wing, two-place strike fighter manufactured by Grumman Aircraft Corporation. It's primary missions include precision strike against ground targets, air superiority, and fleet air defense. Those are the facts. But, behind the facts are the reality of thirty-five years of active naval service as the foremost air superiority fighter of the cold war with continuing service as a fighter-bomber in the Gulf Wars. It is this service and the over two hundred thousand sailors, officers and enlisted men, pilots and "ground" crew, who served in F-14 squadrons with the Tomcat over the years. Now, as the Tomcat files off into its sunset and the scrapyard-no flyable F-14s will be allowed to survive for fear that Iran, the other operator of the aircraft, might be able to obtain spare parts for their Tomcat fleet - "Grumman F-14 Tomcat: Anytime Baby...!" is a fitting tribute to this still potent old man of the sky.

About the Author

Dave "Hey Joe" Parsons is a long-time tomcat aviator who is currently a top executive of the Titan Corp in Virginia. For many years he was the editor of the Navy's Approach Magazine, and he has authored some 20 books on military aviation. George Hall is America's foremost aviation photographer and has 30 books to his credit, including the first non-fiction title published on Topgun. An authority on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, he lives in California. Bob