Ever since Tom Cruise appeared in the movie Top Gun, the United States Navy has received more applications for flight contracts each year then just about any time in history. But this comes as no surprise to Hollywood or even the booksellers of aircraft fighter plane books. Young or old, all boys and men loved that movie and it has become one of the classics of all time.
Personally, my dad was a US Naval Aviator and flew 250 Combat missions in Vietnam off several carriers in an A-4 Skyhawk, and later was CO of an A-7 squadron. He did fly and train at Top Gun, which has now moved to Northern Nevada from San Diego. If you would like to learn more about the history of the jet age in Naval Aviation then perhaps, I might recommend an excellent pictorial book for your coffee table at home. The books is called;
"Top Gun Fighters and American Jet Power" by George Hall; Publications International LTD, Lincolnwood, Il 1988.
This book is fully illustrated and large, the pictures are life like and all the famous fighter jets of both the US Air Force and Navy are listed. Each aircraft has specifications, speeds and armament capabilities, with an explanation of its role in the battle space. There are also electronic surveillance aircraft, spy planes, trainers, and attack aircraft, not just fighter planes.
Every young man interested in aircraft ought to have a book like this and every aviation enthusiast ought to have one of these pictorial books on his coffee table. Move the women's artsy books out of the way and make room for the Top Gun Book.
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