Grumman F-14 Tomcat (1970)

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An F-14A of Fighter Squadron (VF) 111 ‘Sundowners’, assigned to the carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet, in the mid-1980s. The unit’s ‘sharkmouth’ motif is worn on the nose and the external fuel tanks, albeit in a toned-down format. The early days of U.S. Navy Tomcat operations saw units wear flamboyant markings. Typical was this F-14A…

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