Originally Posted by
Less Hair
Top Gun became so popular back then that the USN re-introduced leather flight jackets afterwards. This time it might be a gold coloured "Maverick"-drone controller or similar?
I read somewhere that TopGun was the best thing that ever happened for US Navy recruitment. When the film was in the cinema, recruitment applications went through the roof.
on average for every flight hour it needed 40 hours of fixing, and it wasn't exactly an easy job either.
Sounds just like any other old jet, I wonder if their difficulties were getting spares too? It wouldn't surprise me if ours were close to that flying hour to maintenance man-hours ratio.
But I could imagine having a see-off snag on a busy carrier flight deck would be undesirable when the unserviceable aircraft is blocking every other aircraft movement?