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Top Gun is enjoying a cultural renaissance. Top Gun:Maverick, the sequel to Tony Scott and Tom Cruise’s 1986 classic, seems poised to finish 2022...
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Top Gun is enjoying a cultural renaissance. Top Gun:Maverick, the sequel to Tony Scott and Tom Cruise’s 1986 classic, seems poised to finish 2022...
The F-14 is one of the U.S. Navy’s most iconic and recognizable airplanes. It zoomed into public consciousness after the first Top Gun movie in 1986....
The F-14 Tomcat might just be the most popular U.S. Navy plane of all time thanks to Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick. While...
F-14 Tomcat is loved by many but had a nearly fatal flaw: some really touchy engines that needed a lot of help over the...
The F-14 Tomcat is clearly a fighter based on Cold War needs and designs. It is also clearly not stealth like the F-22, F-35,...
While it might seem strange, the F-14 that flies in Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick still flies for Iran – a strange fact...
Spoiler alert: The new Top Gun movie has a scene in which Tom Cruise’s Maverick character flies an old F-14 Tomcat. I won’t divulge...
While audiences all over the world are watching Top Gun: Maverick – and no doubt the F-14 Tomcat – the legendary fighter plane surely...
Author’s Note: Before you read this, note that I will be going into some of the plot details of the new Top Gun: Maverick...
In my article on the SR-72 spy plane, I started off by mentioning the mysterious plane’s Hollywood-embellished appearance in Top Gun: Maverick, the long-awaited...