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An F-14A Tomcat at the New England Air Museum Windsor Locks CT. This plane came from the Pukin Dogs Squadron.

The world Famous Pukin’ Dogs were originally commissioned in 1949 as VF-871, a reserve squadron, and were known as the “Griffins.” From their home at NAS Alameda, the Griffins were called to active duty on 20 July, 1950. The squadron took the F4U-4 Corsair to war in Korea from the decks of the USS PRINCETON (CV 37) in early 1951 and the USS ESSEX (CVA 9) in 1952. During the next eleven years, the squadron changed aircraft and designations twice; designated as VF-123, flying both the F9F-2 Panther and F9F-8 Cougar, and then as VF-53, flying the F3H-2 Demon. On 20 June, 1962, the squadron was redesignated VF-143 and transitioned to the F4H-1 Phantom II ( later redesignated the F-4B). VF-143 first went to sea aboard USS CONSTELLATION in February 1963, for a WESTPAC cruise. Operating as part of CVW-14, the following year, the squadron became involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident and flew in the Pierce Arrow attacks on North Vietnamese naval facilities on 5 August 1964. In the succeeding years, the Pukin’ Dogs moved on to the F-4J and recorded seven combat deployments to Vietnam. The squadron, stationed at NAS Mirimar, CA, flew massive air strikes and Combat Air Patrol (CAP) missions before trading in their Phantoms for Tomcats.
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~b3nny-j Mar 31, 2008
A pair of engines, a bunch of missles that just happens to have a bit of plane holding them together.
Awesome peice of gear that.

:-)
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~bigsteve7743 Mar 31, 2008
Next to the P51 Mustang this is my Favorite plane! Thanks for the comment.
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~SRT202 Nov 27, 2006   Photographer
Wonderful plane! Did you guys know Iran has a some F-14 but cant fly them because we sabotaged them when we pulled out of Iran
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~bigsteve7743 Nov 27, 2006
Did we sabotage them or just stop selling them parts?
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~SRT202 Nov 29, 2006   Photographer
From what I have read we had guys in Iran working on them way back in the day, when Iran got all bitchy our guys sabotaged them before they left Iran.
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~bigsteve7743 Nov 29, 2006
That's awesome!
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~UnLeashed210 Nov 21, 2006  Hobbyist Photographer
very nice shot! looks like a kool plane :D
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~2112AWG Nov 19, 2006
Nice shot bro. If I only had one of these in my garage.
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~bigsteve7743 Nov 19, 2006
Christmas is coming :)
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*painting-with-light Nov 19, 2006
Nice shot Steve
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