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Top Gun Days: a book reveals how the best F-14 Tomcat air-to-air scenes were filmed

October 2, 2013 Dario Leone

Developed in the late 1960s to protect US Navy Carrier Battle Groups (CVBG) from the raids conducted by the Soviet bombers armed with long-range cruise missiles, the F-14 was the best fleet defender thanks to […]

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Top Gun’s Maverick turns 51 today. With a huge aviation experience: from F-14s to a WWII P-51 Mustang

July 3, 2013 David Cenciotti

Here below is an interesting Guest Post by film and television blogger Alex Smith. The article focus on Tom Cruise’s experience in Top Gun and the 51-year old today Maverick’s love for aviation. Enjoy! On […]

Aircraft Carriers

Tony Scott, Hank Kleeman, Kara Hultgreen and the F-14 Tomcat: three (tragic) stories and a legendary plane

September 1, 2012 David Cenciotti

Few days ago, Dario Leone, a long time reader and a huge F-14 Tomcat fan, sent me an email to point out what he had noticed about the date Tony Scott, the famous director of “Top […]

Aircraft Carriers

Top Gun director Tony Scott commits suicide. He personally paid 25,000 USD to keep an aircraft carrier on course and shoot the F-14s backlit by the sun

August 20, 2012 David Cenciotti

On Aug. 19, at around 12.30 pm, Tony Scott, film director of Top Gun, committed suicide by jumping from a Los Angeles county bridge. Although he directed and produced many successful movies, his most famous […]

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