The Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a revered U.S. Navy fighter, famously became one of the few aircraft to shoot itself down. During a test on June 20, 1973, an AIM-7 Sparrow missile launch went awry, causing ...
Manufacturer Northrop Grumman was ultimately awarded the contract to produce its F-14 prototype, a twin-engine, air-to-air fighter that could reach a top speed of Mach 2.2. The first Tomcat took ...
For the past two years, Seattle-area artist Myron Curry has created larger-than-life paintings at Dick Scobee Field featuring local aviation connections.
Rice said his father worked on notable projects, such as the The Grumman F-14 Tomcat and the Apollo Lunar Module, originally called the Lunar Excursion Module. “We had models of those things ...