LCDR Joe "Smokin" Ruzicka, the last F-14 Radar Intercept Officer to fly the Tomcat Tactical demonstration, is back to walk us through exactly what it took to strap on a 70k pound F-14 Tomcat in ...

You won't believe it but U.S. Navy legendary planes (F-4, F-8 and F-14) could fly with folded wings, asymmetric configurations. To save space aboard the deck of U.S. flattops, aircraft built for ...

Throughout its service history, from 1970 to 2006, the F-14 was involved in 144 accidents, though few involved takeoff and landing from an aircraft carrier. The F-14A was the first model ...

On March 2, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Christopher M. Blaschum, 33, of Virginia Beach, Va., died after ejecting from his F-14. ... Take off from a carrier is harder then shore flights on the landing gear.