Originally Posted by
Widger
Thank you for sharing that. I have his book, The Cutting Edge, full of wonderful photographs of the carrier air group. I saw Top Gun in Dec 1986, one month before I joined HMS Ark Royal, which had the likes of Moggie and Soapy all serving in at the time.
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Why didn't the UK need a 'Top Gun' or was it enough to set it up for the US? Did the Brit pilots get trained properly on the way to the front line?
When you get to the end on YouTube - 4 5 8 9 hours in the air over Kuwait - serious flying!
Drift - but Ward Carroll is moving into 'news' - well worth the watch
And this lecture about the development of the F-14