Wow, somebody f-ed up that AH-64! It looks like they hit the tail boom too hard on landing and ripped it off.
On the US Navy F-14, some accuracy pointers for military artists: - The "Jolly Rogers" livery was used by VF-84 (up till 1995) and VF-103 (1995 onwards), so the squadron number on the ventral strakes should say one of those squadrons. The "AJ" tail code for Carrier Air Wing 8 is usually associated with VF-84. - The "MODEX" or side number on a fleet squadron bird should normally have the last 2 digits no greater than the number of aircraft in the squadron. The first digit generally denotes the squadron: 1XX through 4XX are the fighter/strike squadrons, 5XX is for the electronic warfare squadron, 60X is for the AEW/airborne C2 squadron, 61X for the helicopters, 7XX for the ASW/sea control squadrons (back when they still had those). Usually only the X00 or X01 aircraft have colorful paint schemes, the rest have low visibility gray colors. The two digits on the vertical stabilizer should match the last two digits of the MODEX on the nose. So the jet in the picture should probably have 201 on the nose. - The fins on the AIM-54 Phoenix missiles are in an 'X' orientation when mounted on the pylons instead of the '+' orientation, and the fins should start just a bit more than half way down the length of the missile.
