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F-14 Tomcat Fighter Had a 'Combat Range' the Navy Can't Match in 2024
What You Need to Know: The Grumman F-14 Tomcat ... The Navy toyed with purchasing a proposed follow-on aircraft to the F-14, the F-21 Super Tomcat. Ultimately, however, the Navy opted to rely ...
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The World’s First Microprocessor: F-14 Central Air Data Computer
When the Grumman F-14 Tomcat first flew in 1970 ... namely its avionics. The Tomcat was the first aircraft to use a microprocessor-driven flight system, as well as the first microprocessor ...
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Super Tomcat 21: How the F-14 Tomcat Could Still Be Flying Today
The Grumman's design won out, and it followed the aircraft maker's tradition of naming its planes after cats – thus the "Tomcat" was born. The F-14, which made its first flight in 1970 ...
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Super Tomcat 21
Despite never having been built, the Grumman Super Tomcat-21 (ST21) remains a point of fascination in aviation circles. ST21 symbolizes what could have been an exceptional evolution of a legendary..