Ex-prosecutor, Navy aviator named as top securities regulator http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2005/08/17/ex_prosecutor_navy_aviator_named_as_top_securities_regulator {EXCERPT} Boston Globe, United States - 1 hour ago AUGUSTA, Maine --Michael Colleran, a former state prosecutor and...

Excellent 'Fine Print' broadcast about coming war with Iran on Press TV at 10:06 PM tonight on the east coast of the USA and at 7:06 PM on the west coast of the USA via the streaming video link at the top of www.presstv.com as it airs at 2:06 AM Sunday morning...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: SURVIVOR OF ISRAELI USS LIBERTY ATTACK REVEALS SECRETS OF 1967 HIGH SEAS MASSACRE and MCCAIN, BACHMANN CONFRONTED OVER "INCIDENT"" ] http://americanfreepress.net/?p=2309 Michele Bachmann Called Out (following referenced in above article):

Exclusive: Iran, Syria, Lebanon on military alert over US Gulf movements and Israel's home defense drill http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5168 According to British media, the US is set to attack Iranian military facilities. DEBKAfile's military sources add that the USS Abraham Lincoln Strike...

A: The Navy intends to reduce it's purchase of F-35Cs by deploying more Marine Corps strike fighter squadrons on board big deck carriers. B: The USMC plans to buy zero F-35Cs. Does A + B mean that the next USN big deck carrier will have a ski ramp? ;-) -HJC

With the increased sophistication of online technologies, industry transition to Internet-style solutions is inevitable. Business-to-business innovations based on the use of the public Internet have expanded horizons, slashed transaction costs and led to spectacular innovation. However, in spite...

As everybody here probably knows, USAF F-105 Thunderchiefs and USN A-4 Skyhawks bore the brunt of the Rolling Thunder campaign from 1965 to 1968 and suffered accordingly. The F-105 and A-4 losses over North Vietnam were 282 and 173 respectively. Now the harder part. What were their loss rates...

Elsewhere I've read that the Tomcat flies "units" of AoA, not degrees, with its AoA range of -10 to +40 degrees being converted to units in the 0 to +30 range. That would mean the formula for converting units to degrees in that plane is . I've also read that approach AoA for the F-14 is 15 units,...

Everyone's seen the infamous photo of the F-14 at the carrier. Here's a link to an interview with the pilot. The pic's there if you haven't seen it. http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/interviews/snodgrass/

In George Hall's "Top Gun", the author refers to a fatal mishap involving aviators deplaning from an F-14 that had just landed when the ejector seats suddenly went off. According to Hall, both pilots were killed, but he had no explanation for why the seats fired. I'm guessing that they were...

I know F-14s required a lot of maintenance - but what sort of man-hours per flight hour are we talking about? Having looked at Cooper's book on Iranian F-14s, I think I'm beginning to understand how they kept some of the planes flying. They did have some US-trained people, although not very many,...

Yahoo! News F-14 Tomcat makes ceremonial last flight By SONJA BARISIC, Associated Press Writer2 hours, 18 minutes ago The F-14 Tomcat, the dogfighting Cold War fighter jet immortalized in the movie "Top Gun," made its ceremonial final flight Friday in a display that suggested the timing was...

I saw a video on YouTube of an F-14 exploding in midair in 1995 when it flew past a destroyer. What happened? I cannot find an explanation on the web. D

A couple of night ago the History Channel aired a program about the F-14. During the promo it was stated that the Tomcat is the world's fastest fighter. I dunno, every aviation book in my house puts it clearly behind the F-15 and the MiG 25. Also, the program stated that the Shah of Iran ordered...

F-14 saved my life In july 1987, our tactical airbase in Bushehr decided to bomb an iraqi radar near persian gulf coast, this radar troubled us a lot during war with Iraq, our design team planned a mission in which I had been chosen for bombing the radar with F-4E phantom and my air support was...

Images from AMARC, VF-11 El Centro farewell, Pt Mugu, Miramar, March Field, etc........email for info.

I was told a story once by someone who worked at Grumman concerning the F-14. It seems that one day a crew took up an F-14 and shortly after take off found that the pitch controls (elevons?) were stuck causing the aircraft to pitch up uncontrollably. By increasing power the crew was able to keep...

I have a friend (golfing buddy) who was a engineer back in the beginning phase of the F-14. I mentioned that I had notice on this NG that it was referred to as the Turkey. He wasn't happy with that a said it was no Turkey, great plane. What is the origin of the nick name? I believe it is an...

Can anyone address this: Defense News on 28 June had this snip: "With F-14s as the only other carrier-based aircraft flying tanker duties, ..." It was in reference to the S-3 being retired and the F/A-18F having the ability to act as a tanker. Anyone know of the Tomcat being used in the role of...

Trying to locate a video I may have seen mentioned in this newsgroup. An F-14 was making a high speed flyby at sea, experienced either dual flameout or other total failure. Crew ejected safely. Might someone recall this and have the link?