#grumman tomcat

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Tomcat Tuesday

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Battle Modern Master Plan No. 15 - The F-14 Tomcat. Started service in 1974, achieved movie stardom in 1986 and retired in 2006. Takes your breath away.

From Battle Picture Weekly No. 72, dated 17 July 1976. Treasury of British Comics.

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The Grumman F-14 Tomcat back page feature from Warlord No. 123, dated 29 January 1977. Later to find movie stardom as the co-star in Top Gun (1986) before being retired in 2006.

DC Thomson.

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Grumman F-14 Tomcat by Mike Badrocke.

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Formation flight Sunday. "Three Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) F-14A Tomcat aircraft fly in formation over the desert during gulf war. VF-32 is based aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67)."

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Formation flight Sunday. "An air-to-air overhead view of 22 Fighter Squadron 142 (VF-142) F-14A Tomcat aircraft flying in formation en route to Naval Air Station, Oceana, Virginia. The aircraft are returning from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)."

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Formation flight Sunday. Tomcats

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Formation flight Sunday. "A right rear overhead view of two F-14B Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron 143 (VF-143) in-flight over the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) during the ship's shakedown cruise near Puerto Rico."