Summary and Key Points: In 1991, an F-14 Tomcat from the U.S. Navy’s Ghost Riders squadron experienced a critical in-flight malfunction when its nose cone detached due to a landing mechanism ...

Graphic footage shows the massive ramp strike of a Tomcat in 1993. The footage below was filmed by the Pilot's Landing Aid Television (PLAT) camera aboard Nimitz-class USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72 ...

At min. 2:12 you can see an F-14 recoverying to the flight deck with the basket and part of the cable still plugged to the aircraft’s IFR (In Flight Refueling) probe in 2002, whereas at min. 2: ...

LCDR Joe "Smokin" Ruzicka, the last F-14 Radar Intercept Officer to fly the Tomcat Tactical demonstration, is back to walk us through exactly what it took to strap on a 70k pound F-14 Tomcat in ...

What You Need to Know: The retirement of the F-14 Tomcat has left a significant capabilities gap in the U.S. Navy's ability to counter long-range anti-ship threats, particularly in the face of ...

Development of the F-14 Tomcat began in the 1950s, when the US Navy was looking for a durable interceptor capable of travelling long distances to defend carrier battle ships.

At just shy of 63 feet long and boasting a 64-foot wingspan, the F-14 Tomcat could attain speeds in excess of Mach 1 at sea level and surpass Mach 2.34 at altitude thanks to two General Electric ...

The US Navy has begun the official retirement plan of the last Grumman F-14 Tomcat aircraft carrier squadron, with a final sortie from USS Theodore Roosevelt.. At an as-yet unidentified location ...

People seem to have an infatuation with America’s last non-super carriers, the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) and the USS Midway (CV-41). Both ships soldiered on into the last decade of the 20th century ...

The Navy has temporarily stopped flying F-14 Tomcat fighters off its aircraft carriers because of suspicions a problem with a wheel assembly contributed to a fatal crash of one of the jets in March.