Tomcat Tales

Send us your personal F-14 stories from your time in the Tomcat squadron! Everything is welcome about the first flight, the 100th or 1000th trap, cruise events, accident reports, squadron celebrations - whatever you want to go public (anonymously) with.

Another Tomcat Tale

A special submission from Commander Jerry “KarateJoe” Watson USN (Ret), F-14 Association Member

The day I shot myself down

By Pete Purvis

This article was first published in Flight Journal magazine in April 2001. With kind permission of the author.

A Grumman Christmas Turkey

By Bob Belter

Here is a piece on an ‘interesting’ Tomcat buy which I had previously written for the Flying Midshipman Log.   

Eject on a familiarization hop

Upon viewing the attached images, those of us who have been privileged to fly in the back seat of a tactical jet will marvel at how this could have ever happened. Especially when you consider the fact the back seat passenger was also a member of the US Navy.

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