DOC Grumman F-14 Tomcat: Bye - Bye Baby...!: Images Reminiscences From 35 Years of Active Service by Dave Parsons; George Hall; Bob Lawson in History

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The very best Tomcat book ever.By T. UrygaIf you like planes; buy this book.If you like Naval Aviation; buy this book.If you like Tomcats; buy this book.Heck; I flew A-6E Intruders and still thought the Tomcat was the sexiest jet ever built.It's like the combination of every Ferrari; Lamborghini; Maserati; Duntov Vette; and Ford GT-40 but It flew.The stories in this book give a perspective that those who were never Naval Aviators rarely glimpse; and those who were; treasure the memories of. While I'm biased towards the Intruder (Fighter Pilots make movies; but Attack Pilots make History...); this is; without reservation; the best Tomcat book ever written.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Good hardcopy; lousy Kindle.By AnonymousThe Kindle version (Mac reader) is terrible. Given that the hardback is a coffee-table book; this should be a an encapsulated PDF; but it's not. It's a loosely formatted eBook; with thumb-stamp graphics. Just a horrible affront to the reader and the craftsmen who originally used proper typography and layout to communicate.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Will make you cryBy James WooleyReading this book will make you cry at the Pentagon Politics that cost the Navy Grummans magnificent Tomcat! Said to be too expensive to keep operating; the Pentagon was afraid of losing new toys F22 and F35 aircraft. The Cats replacment of the F18 Hornet was a pitiful choice. In fact; the Hornet hasn't got enough legs to run down the street to CircleK to get a gallon of milk without stopping for gas on the way.They are now stuck with F18 Hornets that just can't do the job of the aircraft they replaced. Thank Dick Cheney for the too expensive to produce F22s. And the F35 is a piece of junk that cannot even meet its own criteria for operations unless the standards are dumbed down! I had to put the book down as it kept making me so sad at the demise of the aircraft that could do it all better than anything else; even when matched against todays supposedly superior aircraft. Truly; as the retirement patch said; Hornets by mandate; Tomcats by choice. And these pilots in the book show exactly why.