Navy fighter pilot Matthew "Whiz" Buckley breaks down the fighter jets featured in Top Gun: Maverick. Whiz, in incredible detail, explains everything you need to know about the iconic F-14A Tomcat ...

"Top Gun: Maverick” will hit the big screen in ... There, they find an Iranian F-14A Tomcat in a hangar, manage to start it and takeoff on a taxiway. Maverick and Rooster use the Tomcat ...

“Top Gun” (the movies) may not be real ... The Tomcat’s competitor in the film, however, was not quite as real as the F-14A. The MiG-28 Maverick squared off against, sporting a black ...

I’ve watched Top Gun countless times ... dark silhouettes of men walking through steam as the nose of an F-14A Tomcat moves in from the left. Everything is filmed in slo-mo on a long telephoto ...

May 13 is Top Gun Day. Let’s celebrate it with two unknown ... and he was flying an F-14A. This Hornet pilot went out for his 1v1 flight, ran the intercept, and as he approached the merge ...

“Bullshit. You can be mine.” Much has changed in the three decades since Top Gun was released. Today’s fighter aircraft are generations more advanced than Maverick’s F-14A, and the challenges of ...

At face value, the F-14A in both its standard and Top Gun attire isn't ostensibly that much different compared to the F-14D. Their statistics in speed, mobility, stability, ait-tor-air/air-to ...

“Top Gun is the film that made the F-14 famous all ... 1981,” Leone wrote to me. On that day, two F-14A Tomcats belonging to the VF-41 Black Aces and launched from the aircraft carrier ...