F-14 Tomcat

by Lorraine Baum

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F-14 Tomcat

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Lorraine Baum

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Photograph - Digital Art

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I took my young friend to the Wings Over The Rockies Air And Space Museum, because she wanted to try the flight simulator and I wanted to capture some images of these amazing historical beasts. This is an F-14 Tomcat, captured from above, and superimposed on this cloudy blue sky background. Wikipedia had the following to say about the F-14 Tomcats:

"The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the F-111B project. The F-14 was the first of the American teen-series fighters, which were designed incorporating air combat experience against MiG fighters during the Vietnam War.

The F-14 first flew in December 1970 and made its first deployment in 1974 with the U.S. Navy aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65), replacing the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. The F-14 served as the U.S. Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor, and tactical aerial reconnaissance platform into the 1990s. The Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) pod system were added in the 1990s and the Tomcat began performing precision ground-attack missions.[1]

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July 7th, 2018

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