‘Iowa the Air Traffic Controllers could not believe that they had an F-14 Tomcat under their control and so very… Read More
Pilots will be tested on their offensive and defensive skills in maneuvers against enemy aircraft, and the best group will… Read More
While Top Gun showed off the F-14 Tomcat to its advantage, the F-16 Fighting Falcon had the very questionable Iron… Read More
‘Since we’ve stopped flying rubber dog s**t out of Hong Kong for environmental reasons, you will likely never fly a… Read More
Matt Wirt, a US Coast Guard Charter Captain from Wilmington got a surprise fly-by guest on Aug. 29, 2018 after… Read More
‘He told me he'd debated doing it for about 10 seconds, but being a Marine meant you were compelled to… Read More
If the Navy chooses to accept it, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) could get its big screen debut in Tom… Read More
‘Of course, for safety reasons there wasn’t any aircraft flying inverted one above the other, and that iconic scene was… Read More
Born on Dec. 24, 1955 Clarence Alfred Gilyard Jr. was best known among The Aviation Geeks, as Top Gun’s Radar… Read More
‘The Hornet and Super Hornet would be challenging opponents in an engagement. As a baseline initial move, the F-14 Tomcat… Read More
Capt. Brian Kesselring, a former TOPGUN instructor himself and now flight leader and commanding officer of the Blue Angels had… Read More
Six years before “Top Gun” prominently featured the F-14 Tomcat, “The Final Countdown” proved that Grumman’s twin-tailed fighter had star… Read More
The project will have Cruise and the rest of the film crew take a rocket to the International Space Station… Read More
The photos in this post were taken during the filming of Top Gun: Maverick and feature one of the US… Read More
Learning to fly and fight the Tomcat in combat was the main goal for both the F-14 aircrews and the… Read More
‘We made a video with the Italian voice of Tom Cruise, Roberto Chevalier. He flew in one of our jets… Read More
The sequel to the 1986 classic delivers the goods and none too soon. 36 years after the release of the… Read More