Word: tomcat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night was moonless, the kind of darkness that pilots liken to flying into a black hole. On the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lieut. John ("Tuba") Gadzinski inched the F-14 Tomcat forward so a deck crewman could hook it to the catapult that would hurl the fighter skyward at 260 km/h. In the Tomcat's backseat, radar-intercept officer Lieut. (j.g.) Kristin ("Rosie") Dryfuse glanced out the cockpit to another deckhand holding a lighted box that flashed "66,000 lbs.," (30 metric tons) the plane's weight. Dryfuse circled her flashlight to signal that the weight was correct...
Even our nation's armed forces have eschewed the turkey and its image. Sure, we have the F-15 Strike Eagle and the FA-18 Falcon, but what about the F-14A Tomcat and A-10 Warthog? We doubt that any warthog merits more respect and honor than a turkey...
...will want to gross out Mom and Dad with Savage Mondo Blitzer characters that come in four-packs with names like Puke Shooters and Chunk Blowers. While ERTL, a respectable die-cast model-car company, is offering ; Blurp Balls -- hideous softball-size spheres, with names like Retch-A-Rat Tomcat, that shoot out revolting objects from their mouths when squeezed...
...aircraft could also bring a measure of relief to Grumman, a Long Island contractor that has reduced its labor force by more than 11,000 workers, or nearly one-third, since the mid-1980s. The firm's problems stem from government cancellation of such workhorses as the F-14 Tomcat fighter and the A-6 Intruder attack jet. But Grumman president Robert Myers discerns a silver lining. "Grumman could benefit from major reductions in defense spending because the system would have to exist with the equipment in use," he says. That could mean lucrative contracts to service and modernize thousands...
...Initiative are getting under way. Everyone with a favorite weapons program, whether a member of Congress or a general, points to the gulf war as justification. Last week, for example, Democratic and Republican representatives from New York and Pennsylvania joined forces to order continued production of the F-14 Tomcat, a carrier- based interceptor Cheney says the Navy has in sufficient quantity. Price tag for the congressionally ordered continuation: $987 million...