Author: Lert, Frederic
Publisher: Histoire & Collection
Year: 2008
ISBN: 9782352500735
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: As New
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Description:
New book, 82 pages. This new collection is devoted to the planes used during the five last decades by the USN and USAF. With this first volume, Frédéric Lert presents the career of the one of the US Navy’s most legendary planes, the F-14 Tomcat, Tom Cruise’s mount in the very famous film, Top Gun. From its appearance in 1972 to its withdrawal from service in 2006, this formidable fighter has flown through thirty years of history in the air. All the models - including those sold to the Iranians before the 1978 Revolution - as well as all the carrier-borne units which used them are shown, described and analysed in this book. Foreign operations, weapons, anecdotes, nothing is left in the shadows. More than 200 often unpublished photos and more than 40 colour profiles illustrate this tribute paid to Grumann’s last Cat.