Grumman F-14 Tomcat Owners' Workshop Manual: All Models 1970-2006 - Insights Into Operating And Maintaining The Us Navy'S Legendary Variable Geometry Carrier-Based Air Superiority Fighter

Grumman F-14 Tomcat Owners' Workshop Manual: All Models 1970-2006 - Insights Into Operating And Maintaining The Us Navy'S Legendary Variable Geometry Carrier-Based Air Superiority Fighter

Probably best-known for its starring role in the Hollywood blockbusterTop Gun, the US Navy?s Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, variable geometry, two-seat, carrier-based, air superiority fighter. The Tomcat was developed for the US Navy?s Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program following the collapse of the F-111B project. TheGrumman F-14 Tomcat Owners' Workshop Manual covers operating and maintaining this aircraft, and is filled with first-person insights into flying the Tomcat.About the AuthorTony Holmes has worked as Osprey Publishing's aerospace editor since 1989, having previously served as an author/photographer for this publishing house in Australasia.?He is widely acknowledged as a leading expert on all periods of aviation history although his personal love is for the Battle of Britain, on which he has written a number of well received titles.?For this book, he has contributed on his favorite subject - the legendary duels between Spitfires and Messerschmitts over southern England in summer 1940.