Let us go a bit Top Gun with this entry in the Haynes expanded universe of workshop manuals. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was an iconic US Navy fighter now retired (though still in service with the Iranian Air Force - to an extent anyway). As with other Haynes manuals this includes a history of the type, it's operational service history and how the Tomcat was built and held together.
The Tomcat is an interesting example of an aircraft that was already a star even before Tom Cruise first climbed into the cockpit of one for the famous film and it is easy to see why. The Tomcat was the last hot US Navy jet fighter. The Hornet, Super Hornet and JSF are worthy and fine of course but they lack the Tomcat's pizzazz.
A very nice book for an undoubted icon.
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