The legendary Grumman F-14 Tomcat is widely considered the best fleet air superiority fighter the U.S. Navy ever put to sea. But the Navy wasn’t the only one to fly F-14s, NASA had two of the formidable fighters too, and together the planes helped provide valuable flight test research that …
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Here is a Topgun DACT video featuring F-16 vs F-14 – Viper vs Tomcat -Dogfight What is DACT? DACT stand for Dissimilar air combat training. The idea of the DACT is to place pilots in simulated aerial combat using different types of aircraft in order to understand the value of knowing …
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Today we will pay a Tribute to Mighty F-14 Tomcat – Tomcat Aircraft Carrier Action. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. Tomcat served more than 34 years during that tenure the F-14 Tomcat transformed from an analog fighter to a digital precision attack …
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On 4 January 1989, Two F-14 fighter jets Destroying two MiG-23 Floggers in combat The engagement took place over the Mediterranean Sea about 40 miles (64 km) north of Tobruk, Libya The USS John F. Kennedy was sailing toward the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Aircraft on the Kennedy included A-6 Intruders, …
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