Grumman F-14 Tomcat: Shipborne Superfighter (World Air Power Journal) [Hardcover]

Jon Lake (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Aerospace Publishing Ltd. / AIRtime Publishing; 1st edition (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1880588137
• ISBN-13: 978-1880588130
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,162,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To all Tomcat fans, January 23, 2000

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Jon Lotton (Trail , Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grumman F-14 Tomcat: Shipborne Superfighter (World Air Power Journal) (Hardcover)

For all the people who love the F-14 tomcat , this book is for you . This book tells abou the design history , the Tomcat opperators and who have been disbanded, fine scale drawings of the Tomcat, technical info and lots more. Also a great modelers resorce. Allaround a wonderful book for the Tomcat fan.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Collection of World Air Power Journal Materials plus new Inf, September 7, 2000

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"cobrachen" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grumman F-14 Tomcat: Shipborne Superfighter (World Air Power Journal) (Hardcover)

This book is published by the same published who published World Air Power and Wings of Fame journals. Part of the pages of this book came from the articles printed on World Air Power before.

World Air Power journal is a high quality military journal with excellent photos. This book has all the excellent quality from the journal plus new materials including the 1991 gulf war.

F-14 is a legend not only to Navy, but to all of the fighters current in service. There are some books in this field, but with latest information, this is the book to read.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you wanted out of an F-14 book plus something extra!, June 27, 2005

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CVN-65 (Philippines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grumman F-14 Tomcat: Shipborne Superfighter (World Air Power Journal) (Hardcover)

This is THE book for Grumman's venerable F-14 Tomcat. Sure, some other books like Tomcat Alley by David F. Brown might beat it in the pictorial department, but overall the information in the articles plus the photos it already has beat any other book about the F-14 Tomcat. Everything about the Tomcat until the books date of publication is covered. From the early beginnings of the Navy's need for a Fleet Air Defense F6D Missileer and the VFX competition that Grumman won all the way to the combat record and current strike attack roles. Every F-14 variant is covered, even the ones that were only concept models. Plus great artistic renderings of historic F-14s. A lot of the articles here came from World Air Power Journal's F-14 cover issue back in the early 90s, but the information here is updated such as the squadron deployments, squadron disestablishments and the wars in Eastern Europe. All F-14 Squadrons in the US Navy are covered, and even some stuff about the IIAF/IRIAF F-14s. If all that isn't enough, there's a foreword by F-14 Tomcat pilot D. Stuart Broce, the VF-1 pilot who shot down a Mi-8 helicopter during Desert Storm. It's very interesting and heart warming to read. This book might be hard to find now, but if you get a chance, get it! 5 / 5 STARS!