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View from F-14 Tomcat cockpit during aerial refuelling in Desert Storm. Photo by HJ

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HJ

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Area of interest: Military Aviation

• Fighter and Strike aircraft
• Aerial Combat
• Aerial Refuelling
• Air-to-Air Missiles
• Dissimilar Air Combat Training
• Ejection Seats
• Human Factors

Bona Fides

over 2000 hours in F-14 Tomcat, published author/editor/photographer Retired Marine/Naval Officer

Current Activity

Writing, Editing, Publishing, Shooting (cameras and occasional firearms)

Author/Coauthor/Editor selected titles

• Air Warfare in the Missile Age contributor/editor
• Hell-bent for Leather - G-1 and A-2 Flight Jackets
• USN-USMC Patches and Insignia
• Danger - Best of Approach Magazine
• Fighter Country - F-14 Tomcats of NAS Oceana
• Bandits - US Adversary/Aggressor aircraft
• Naval Aviation (flight clothing chapter)
• Bye, Bye Baby! Hail and Farewell to F-14 Tomcat (contributed backstory for Hildebrandt)
• Editor, Approach magazine 1986-89
• F-14 Tomcat - Anytime, Baby! (with Hall and Lawson)[1]

Published photography and text

An F-14A Tomcat from VF-32 during Desert Storm. Photo by HJ

Partial list of published images* and images/articles**

• All Hands** (cover)
• Viewfinder** (cover)
• Proceedings** (cover)
• Wings of Gold** (cover)
• Approach** (cover)
• Seapower*(cover)
• AvWeek* (cover)
• Armed Forces Journal*(cover)
• Mech* (cover)
• Flight Journal**
• Air&Space**
• Hook**
• Airpower**
• Naval Aviation News*
• Combat Aircraft*

An F-14A Tomcat from VF-32 returning to USS John F Kennedy. Photo by HJ

Books

• Tomcats Forever* (by Dorr/Brown) (cover)
• Gulf Air War Debrief**
• Desert Shield (by Dorr) (back cover)*
• Desert Storm*
• Tomcat - The Grumman F-14 Story (by Glichrist)*
• U.S. Naval Aviation**[2]

This user is interested in aviation.