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Aircraft, Weapons and Their Battlefield Might. Evans. This photo-essay covers the cutting edge of America's aircraft and weaponry, including some of the most familiar names in operation today: the F-14 Tomcat, the F-15 Eagle and other aircraft as well as a selection of the massive air-to-air weapons available to them such as the Sidewinder and the AMRAAM. 72 pgs., 110 photos with 16 pgs. in color, 7"x 10", sfbd.
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"Tomcat Alley" contains over seven-hundred images depicting the venerable F-14 Tomcat, bureau number by bureau number. Each U.S.  Navy Tomcat is traced from date of delivery through February 1998. After a brief introduction, informative captions provide details  concerning every Tomcat model, modification, and the fate of each aircraft including those stricken due to operational accidents, retired  to the "bone-yard", or resting as "gate guards" at military installations around the country. The majority of Tomcats are shown in full-color  with images displaying every paint scheme worn by the F-14, including many water-based schemes applied during various tactical exercises and deployments. Images also include every squadron commander's aircraft, nose art, tail colors, over 150 patches and  insignia, bicentennial schemes, and Tomcats which participated in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Additionally, the Su-22, MiG-23, and Hi-8 killers are depicted along with "movie star" Tomcats from "Final Countdown," "Topgun," and "Executive Decision.",  over 875 color photographs, 9" x 12", appendices 
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Book Description 
Regardless of fatigue, equipment trouble, low fuel, poor weather conditions, or time of day, when a U.S. Navy pilot is on BLUE WATER OPS, the carrier is his only place to land. In catapult and recovery operations, stress on pilots, deck crew, and machinery  reaches incredible levels. The sights, smells, and sounds of carrier aviation come alive in this book of spectacular photographs. 120 color  photos.

TOMCAT! The Grumman F-14 Story is an exciting oral history of the most versatile air supremacy fighter in the world . . . much of it  written from the vantage point of the airplane's cockpit! Told in an anecdotal format, this new book is richly marbled with the salt air of  fleet experience. Perhaps the F-14 program's greatest success is its overwhelming acceptance by the youngsters in the fleet. Anecdotes  about the Tomcat legend abound . . . especially in the chapters devoted to its employment by the fleet in the oceans of the world. Of particular interest are the chapters dealing with the sale of Tomcats to Iran and the subsequent integration of the airplane into Iran's armed  forces. On-the-scene eye witness accounts provide a unique perspective of this fascinating aspect of the Tomcat story. TOMCAT!  contains over 150 photographs, most in color and never before published, and most of them taken by Tomcat aircrews with hand-held cameras. These provide a fascinating backdrop for the oral history contained in the book. This is not a garden variety history about an airplane. It is a sometimes heart-stopping story of how a controversial airplane finally made it into the hearts and minds of the fleet . . .  after stumbling at the starting gates of an outmoded defense acquisition system. It is the story of the best air supremacy fighter in the world! Rear Admiral Paul Gillcrist, USN (Retired), commanded a fleet fighter squadron on three carrier combat deployments to the  Tonkin Gulf during which he flew 167 combat missions over Vietnam. For these he was awarded seventeen combat decorations. In his  thirty-three year flying career as a fleet pilot and Navy test pilot as well, he flew 71 different U.S. and foreign tactical airplanes including  the U.S. Air Force's F-104, F-105, F-106, F-15, F-16, YF-17 and F-20. He flew the Navy's F-4, F-5, F-8, F-11, F-14 and F/A-18  as well as several key foreign tactical airplanes. During his carrier flying career, which spanned an amazing twenty-seven years, he commanded a fighter squadron, a carrier air wing and was the wing commander for all Pacific Fleet fighter squadrons. He flew from  sixteen carriers, and in his last flying assignment accumulated over four hundred flight hours in the Tomcat culminating, at age 51, in  becoming the first flag officer to land the Tomcat on an aircraft carrier - the U.S.S. KITTYHAWK on 21 October 1980. The author of  FEET WET, Reflections of a Carrier Pilot, Admiral Gillcrist is eminently qualified to write the F-14 story!, over 150 color & b/w photographs, 8 1/2" x 11" 
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Born out of political turmoil as a replacement for the F-4 Phantom, Grumman’s  F-14 Tomcat is today an extremely capable and effective carrier-based air  superiority fighter. Describes the Tomcat’s origins, design, development, and operational use, and details the continuing improvements to its avionics, engines,  and weapons systems. 200 B&W illustrations and 8 color, 200 pgs., 8½"x 11", hdbd

Book Description 
Jane's At the Controls reveals what it is like to fly and fight in the F-14 Tomcat. Tasked with the long range defense of the US Navy's carrier task forces, the F-14 is now taking on new roles. On the hypothetical mission, set in the near future, you follow a flight of F-14s  through all phases of an operation. 

About the Author 
David C. Isby is a Washington-based attorney and defense consultant. A special correspondent for Jane's Intelligence Review, he has  contributed to many military and aviation publications and written extensively on the Russian armed forces. He lives in Washington D.C.

A Great Reference for the Model Airplane builder

See the East Coast Fighter Squadrons and Aggressors in full color catapulting from the flight deck and in spectacular air-to-air photography. Experience a day in the life of a Tomcat pilot in training and on blue-water operations. 100 color illustrations, 160 pgs., 10”x 10”, hdbd.

Feet Wet
Gillcrist. 
hardbound Book

The author flew the F-8, F-4 and F-14 among others. Hair-raising true adventure including his first night 'trap', dodging SAMs in Vietnam, and jousting with MiGs over Hanoi. All written to put the reader in the pilot’s seat. 368 pgs., illustrated,  6"x 9", hdbd.
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F-14 Tomcat Walk Around
Drendel. 
Softbound Book

This photo essay takes you on a visual tour of the plane and its systems  including the cockpit, landing gear, wing structures, cameras, missile wells, engines,  and a whole lot more. With incredible detail, this is absolutely the next best thing to  being there. 80 pgs., 250 color and B&W photos, and several detailed diagrams. 11"x  8¼", sfbd.
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Price: $16.95
 

This advanced air superiority fighter has been a pioneer in many ways; it  was even the first aircraft to use production components made of advanced  composites (almost 30 years ago). Here is a look at the development and deployment  of this great carrier-based, naval aircraft. 49 pgs., 100 B&W photos, 3-view drawings of each variant, and 10 color profiles. 11"x 8¼", sfbd.

This collection of over 200 photographs brings the fascinating history of  Grumman to life. From the famed Wildcats, Hellcats, and Avengers of WWII, to the "Cats" of the '40s and '50s, the F-14s of the modern era, and even the Lunar Modules of the Apollo space program, Grumman has been an innovator. Here is a  lasting record of the company, the vision of Roy Grumman and the history of developments in U.S. Navy aircraft. 128 pgs., 6½"x 9¼", sfbd.

Here is a comprehensive history of the Grumman Corporation and its many aircraft that have been in every  major conflict from WWII through Korea and Vietnam to the Gulf and Bosnia. Their  factory in New York, known as the Ironworks, produced some of the best  carrier-borne aircraft ever made including the TBM Avenger, the Hellcat, the Wildcat,  the F-14 Tomcat and the A-6 Intruder. 254 pgs., 120 photos, 7"x 10", hdbd.

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