ORIGINAL: tomcatman
The thread I saw sometime last year also had a story behind that particular manuever, I believe it wasn't authorized and the pilot caught some heat about it or something to that affect. Any bells ringing yet?
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There have been several such stories going around ... lots of people adding text on top of the pic with bigus claims about the pilot being grounded, and even getting the carrier name wrong - claiming that it was the USS Stennis instead of the USS America. If you do a search for "USS Stennis F14 flyby" (and try variants with F14 vs F-14 etc) then you will probably find some of those pics - but you may have to put up with them having the bogus text added to them.
Gordon