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Flight Test Files: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
NASA Dryden played a key role in advancing the Grumman F-14 Tomcat's capabilities through two major research programs. From ...
If you’re asked to picture a fighter jet, the images conjured in most people’s minds will look very similar to the iconic Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a formidable combat aircraft and star of the ...
The F-106 performed well, with Mach 2.3 speed, a 57,000-foot service ceiling, and a 29,000-foot per minute climbing rate. Yet ...
Spring cleaning is happening at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum. Williams employees volunteered to do different projects there ...
"I thought it was just something other people do." Vincent Aiello, then 8 years old, peers into an F-14A Tomcat cockpit at the Naval Air Station Point Mugu Airshow in California in 1978.
Lockheed executives have refuted the existence of a remote F-35 “kill-switch” by which leaders in Washington, soured on Europe, could turn the aircraft into expensive chunks of metal.
No injuries were reported. The wing tip of an aircraft heading to Charleston, South Carolina, struck a plane en route to New York City about shortly before 1 p.m., according to a statement from ...
The planned July delivery of the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the John F. Kennedy, is likely to be missed because of long-unresolved “critical challenges” with elevators used to move ...
It wasn’t stage blood that filled a street in Ontario’s Festival City. In Stratford, a city known for its elaborate and sometimes-gruesome productions of Shakespeare, it was a near accident ...