A VF-24 Fighting Renegades Tomcat descends at the end of a training mission, heading for a carrier landing during a deployment to the Indian Ocean. It's carrying one AIM-54A, as well as AIM-7 and AIM-9.
A VF-2 Bounty Hunters Tomcat descends toward NAS Miramar, which can be seen in the distance. The pilot has manually swept the wings back, normal procedures for Tomcats coming into the break.
Look closely and you can see vapes above the wings as this Tomcat pulls g. Photo taken above the Pacific Ocean near San Clemente Island. VF-2 Bounty Hunters.
An F-14A Tomcat of the VF-211 Fighting Checkmates pauses alongside an S-3 of VS-33 Screwbirds after aerial refueling. This was above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California during workups with CVW-9 aboard USS Nimitz (CVN-68).
With the afterburner lit, this VFP-63 RF-8G pilot salutes the catapult officer seconds before being launched from JFK. Photographer was a Navy ROTC midshipman at the time.
VF-2 F-14A Tomcat wearing temporary water-color camouflage applied by aircrews returns to NAS Miramar following a Fighter Derby competition flight on the Yuma TACTS range (R2301W).
VF-211 F-14A Tomcat rests on Nimitz flight deck crossing the Atlantic at the end of a round-the-world deployment. (Photographer's name on rear cockpit rail.)