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Short Stories: F-14 Tomcats and Topgun
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  • Bounty Hunter Tomcats prep for carrier landing

    Bounty Hunter Tomcats prep for carrier landing

    Two F-14A Tomcats from the VF-2 Bounty Hunters dump fuel in preparation for a carrier landing. Indian Ocean, 1987.

     
  • Cockpit selfie

    Cockpit selfie

    Selfie in a VF-2 F-14 cockpit on the fly-off at the end of deployment in 1987. 

     
  • Hawkeye and Tomcat

    Hawkeye and Tomcat

    A VF-2 Tomcat flies in formation with an E-2C Hawkeye from VAW-116. Taken near the USS Ranger in the Indian Ocean, May 1989.

     
  • VF-2 F-14A Tomcat

    VF-2 F-14A Tomcat

    Just a nice side view of a VF-2 Bounty Hunters F-14A Tomcat from June 1987.

     
  • Two VF-2 Tomcats above Southern California

    Two VF-2 Tomcats above Southern California

    Two F-14A Tomcats from VF-2 fly above Southern California during a training mission in 1988. Notice how the tail design changed from the 1987 photo.

     
  • Camo F-14 with F-16Ns

    Camo F-14 with F-16Ns

    VF-2 Tomcat wearing temporary water color camouflage flies with two F-16N adversaries from VF-126 near El Centro, California in 1988.

     
  • F-14 descends toward NAS Miramar

    F-14 descends toward NAS Miramar

    A VF-2 F-14A Tomcat dewcends toward NAS Miramar, visible in the distance, at the completion of a training mission.

     
  • VF-211 F-14A Tomcat above USS Nimitz

    VF-211 F-14A Tomcat above USS Nimitz

    An F-14A Tomcat from the VF-2111 Fighting Checkmates above the USS Nimitz, returning from a training mission. Pacific Ocean near California, 1997.

     
  • VF-211 Tomcat with practice bombs

    VF-211 Tomcat with practice bombs

    An F-14A Tomcat from VF-211 caaries two small Mk 76 practice bombs (look closely) on a training flight from the USS Nimitz, off the coast of Southern California in 1997. It's also carrying an AIM-9 missile simulator, the blue tube on the left wing station.

     
  • Tomcat top view from TARPS camera

    Tomcat top view from TARPS camera

    This photo of a VF-211 F-14A Tomcat was taken using one of the cameras in a TARPS pod.

     
  • VF-211 F-14A Tomcat in Zone 5 afterburner

    VF-211 F-14A Tomcat in Zone 5 afterburner

    A VF-211 F-14A Tomcat lights the afterburners furing an evening training mission above California in 1997.

     
  • VF-211 F-14A Tomcat showing OSW weapons load

    VF-211 F-14A Tomcat showing OSW weapons load

    Taken during Operation Southern Watch, a VF-211 F-14A Tomcat returns to USS Nimitz after a mission above Iraq in 1997.

     
 
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