More than 50 years on from its first flight, the iconic fighter jet remains one of the most iconic aircraft in the world.

The Smithsonian National Air and Spece Museum describes the F-14 thusly: "The F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, variable sweep-wing, two-place strike fighter manufactured by Grumman ...

If you were lucky, you could catch a glimpse of the supersonic F-14 Tomcat during the more than three decades it flew out of Naval Air Station Oceana. Judge bars Musk's DOGE team from Social ...

The F-14 was the only aircraft in NATO that ... resulting in excessive trim drag at transonic and supersonic conditions. Tomcat designers were not going to repeat that mistake.

Before the U.S. Navy retired the F-14 Tomcat, it was the premier bomber hunter. Its after-burning turbofan engines –whether General Electric or Pratt & Whitney's power plants– let it exceed ...