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The squadrons provided F-14s for filming aerial sequences in the movie Top Gun. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was central to the 1986 film Top Gun. [229] [230] [231] The aviation-themed film was such a success in creating interest in naval aviation that the US Navy, which assisted with the film, set up recruitment desks outside some theaters. [232]
[3] [6] [7] The following year, Snodgrass reportedly did a little bit of the flying in the film Top Gun. [1] [3] As the best F-14 pilot in 1986, Grumman Aerospace awarded Snodgrass "Topcat of the Year." [3] [7] He later became a demonstration pilot, a role he kept for 10 years. [10] Snodgrass' famous "banana pass" over the USS America in 1988
The F-14 was piloted by Commander Lawrence "Music" Muczynski and Lieutenant JG James "Luca" Anderson. [1] August 19, 1981 – A Grumman F-14A Tomcat (Bureau Number : 160403) shot down a Sukhoi Su-22 using an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. The F-14 was piloted by Commander Henry "Hank" Kleeman and Lieutenant David "DJ" Venlet. [2]
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat has served with the United States Navy and the Imperial Iranian Air Force, then the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force [1] after 1979. It operated aboard U.S. aircraft carriers from 1974 to 2006 and remains in service with Iran. In-depth knowledge of its service with Iran is relatively limited.
The company's big postwar successes came in the 1960s with the A-6 Intruder and E-2 Hawkeye and in the 1970s with the Grumman EA-6B Prowler and F-14 Tomcat. Grumman products were prominent in several feature movies including The Final Countdown in 1980, [8] Top Gun in 1986, and Flight of the Intruder in 1990. [9]
F-9 (F9F-6/7/9) Cougar: Fighter Grumman 1951 1952 1,988 XF10F Jaguar: Prototype swing-wing fighter aircraft Grumman Although it never entered service, its research paved the way towards the General Dynamics F-111 and Grumman's F-14 Tomcat. 1952 Never 1 F-7 (F2Y) Sea Dart: Seaplane fighter Convair
VFAX was revived in the 1970s when it was realized that although the F-14 was smaller than the F-111B, it was still a very large plane. It was a very expensive to replace all of the attack fighters and USMC F-4 Phantom IIs , which had passed on the Tomcat's cost and initial lack of ground attack capability (which the fighter wouldn't get until ...
Efraim Diveroli (born December 20, 1985) [3] is an American former arms dealer, convicted fraudster, and author. [4] Diveroli controlled AEY, Inc., a company that secured significant contracts as a major weapons contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense.