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02/28/2024

Calling all Hands!!! Christine needs a bath!!! The F-14 Association will be hosting a Plane Wash at the Ft Worth Abiation Museum during the F-14 Reunion in 12 April 2024. Join us between 8 and noon on Friday. The Blue Angels will be present along with a band and food truck. Please help restore Christine for her close up or just stop by to watch!

02/02/2024

Many many thanks from Mads Bangsø and myself for such feedback on our first collaborative effort!

01/17/2024

Thirty Three years ago: Desert Storm!

12/01/2023

Tomcat BUNO 159610 is one of several F-14A Tomcat that served as A models (analog) but were remanufactured to become D models (digital) with new APG-71 radars, GE 110 engines, NACES ejection seats, upgraded cockpit displays, etc. NASM had requested it for display due to it being one of 2 VF-32 Tomcats to shoot down a Libyan MiG-23 in January 1989 The Navy promised to fly it to Dulles in 2006 as last event in Tomcat Sunset.

That almost did not happen as the SARDP crews started dismantled it in preparation for destruction but an alert Dave Brown who knew of the promise made to NASM was visiting Oceana and raised the alarm thereby stopping the cannilbiilzation. At that point, it was no longer flyable and had to be trucked to Dulles. We tell the whole story in our book

11/27/2023

The book has arrived stateside at last. Mortons/tempest really did a superlative job in producing our work in vivid color on hefty paper stock. The 2D profiles and 3d renderings literally fly off the pages and photography by Robert Lawson (courtesy Matthew Lawson), Dave Baranek, “Fuji” and others is impressive. Special thanks to Peter Chilelli for tweaking my images for publication!

03/01/2022

12/20/2018

Eat mor Chikin!

'Goes beyond McDonald's'

11/06/2018

http://tomcatmonument.org/

Your support for preserving the memory of the last true United States Navy fighter aircraft is crucial! The F-14 Tomcat Monument will be a 12-ft. tall, four-sided, black granite obelisk and will be an integral part of the Naval Aviation Monument Park on 25th St. adjacent to the Boardwalk in Virginia...

08/19/2018

Oct Issue of Flight Journal features lead article on Flight Jackets written in theReadyRoom! Nice layout by Flight Journal Team.

07/27/2018

The much anticipated first edition of Aviation Photographer has hit the streets and includes a column written by myself. Quite honored and humbled to be asked to contribute to this collector’s item.

05/04/2018

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