On the morning the towers fell in New York, 9/11, Mitch had just finished his F-14 Tomcat training ... name on a Hornet as Commander of Fighter Squadron 105, The Gunslingers.

I attended the Miramar Air Show at San Diego’s USMC base in 2002. The airfield was dotted with planes, jets, tanks, helicopters and men in uniform. F-16s screamed overhead and I was in heaven, a ...

Art Wong shared this photo taken aboard the USS Hornet, docked in Alameda. Wong wrote in an email to Patch, "The F-14A is a ...

The Nimitz, now the oldest active aircraft carrier in the world, leads Carrier Strike Group 11 (CSG 11), comprising Destroyer Squadron 9 (DESRON ... in 1981, two F-14 Tomcats from the Nimitz ...

O’Malley is using the trip with his brother-in-law to raise funds for the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which provides mortgage-free homes for the families of fallen first responders, Gold Star ...

Other operational assignments at sea include Fighter Squadron (VF) 14, flying the F-14 Tomcat with USS John F. Kennedy and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Strike Groups, and VFA-15, flying the F/A-18 Hornet ...

Once the approach controller tells the approaching aircraft to "call the ball," Maverick's reply, for example, should have been "Ghostrider 203, Tomcat Ball ... A 1980s US Navy Air Wing had two F-14 ...

After 36 years of service, the U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat was retired in September 2006. 13News Now was there at Naval Air Station Oceana to document the aircraft's final flight, as Hampton Roads bid ...