Puck, C/O VF-31 prepares to launch off CVN71 for the last time in July 2006
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You got the eye Kev, focusing on the people around and in those jets. Lovely shots there.
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Cheers, although i messed up getting a good launch shot of the last tomcat, was just too crowded along the catapult safety line. Still cant belive the amount of freedom they gave us on the TR!
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It was an amazing trip. Loved the fact that we had all angles covered. I don’t have a good shot of all the shooters lined up either. Not with a Tomcat in the same frame anyway. Need to publish a photo report about that trip, I know…
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Looking fast while sitting still… what a plane… seems the last couple of flying Iranians will soon be history as well, being replaced by Sukhois…
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Great angle, yeah would have loved to shoot the Iranians.
Photographed back on September 21, 1995, during one of my many trips to NAS Oceana, is F-14B, AD-101, VF-101, 162923. Pic was taken with my phone of one of my Kodachrome 25 slides.
“TOMCATS FOREVER, BABY …!”
Steve
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Oooh, that’s sweet!
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“RIPPER TWO-ONE”, F-14D(R), NK-106, VF-11, 159613, was photographed on the t-line at NAS Willow Grove, Pa., back on March 7, 1993. Sorry for the quality, another pic with my phone of my slide.
Steve
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F-14D, AJ-100, VF-31, 164342 poses on the ramp at NAS Oceana on September 20, 2006. “FELIX RULES” It was hard to believe that these last few 31 jets I was shooting would be the last Tomcats I’d ever shoot at Oceana after 19 years.
“TOMCATS FOREVER, BABY…!”
Steve
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That was a great time. So glad we got to witness those last years of US Navy Tomcat Ops. Need to dig up some shots from those days.
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