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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...
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...
While it might seem strange, the F-14 that flies in Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick still flies for Iran – a strange fact...
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...
The U.S. Navy Loved the Grumman F-14 Tomcat – Developed for the United States Navy’s Naval Flight Experimental (VFX) program in the late 1960s,...
Super Tomcat 21: The History of a Very Special F-14 Tomcat – Not long ago, we explored the reasons the legendary F-14 Tomcat found...
The F-14 Tomcat: A Great Fighter with Horrible Engines? When the F-14 Tomcat first entered service, it was powered by a pair of Pratt &...
Why Iran Loves the F-14: In its heyday in the late 1970s, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was considered one of the most capable fighters in the sky,...
F-14 Tomcat, a 3 Minute History: During its three decades in service with the United States Navy the Grumman F-14 Tomcat more than lived up to the...
Not long ago, we explored the reasons the legendary F-14 Tomcat found itself sent out to pasture decades before its fighter classmates from the 1970s, but there’s...