Tomcat Tales Tribute: Snort in His Own Words

Captain Dale “Snort” Snodgrass, USN (Ret.) was a legendary F-14 pilot and airshow performer who died on July 24, 2021 when his single engine airplane crashed on takeoff in Lewiston, Idaho.

In these excepts from the documentary “Tomcat Tales,” Snort talks about the real story behind the viral photo of his knife-edge pass in an F-14 next to an aircraft carrier, where he first saw the F-14, his famous 1-v-1 against a Marine Corps Hornet pilot, and how he helped get the LANTIRN pod onto the Tomcat during his time as the Fighter Wing Commander.

This is Snort in his own words – a one-of-a-kind fighter pilot talking about the job he loved more than anything else.

Thanks to former Tomcat RIO Mark “Viz” Vizcarra of Speed and Angels Productions for providing these excerpts.