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U.S. Navy Retires 'Top Gun' Jets
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — There will be no more dogfights for the Tomcat.
The last two squadrons of the sleek, Cold War fighter jet returned home from their final deployment Friday, two decades after the warplanes were glamorized in the 1986 Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun."
All 22 Tomcats of fighter squadrons VF-213 and VF-31 arrived in style, flying together in a wedge formation over Oceana Naval Air Station as hundreds of sailors and their family and friends cheered. Some wore T-shirts reading "Tomcats Forever" and a banner proclaimed, "Last Fly-In, Baby!"
"We're putting the premier fighter to sleep," said pilot Lt. Jon Jeck, 32, as he held his 3-year-old son Collin. "It's a staple of Americana."
The Navy plans to replace the F-14, a two-seat fighter with moveable swept-back wings, with the F/A-18 Super Hornets.
The F-14 entered service in the early 1970s to defend aircraft carriers from Soviet bombers carrying long-range cruise missiles.
"If you want to think about airplanes that have defined the air age, this would have to be on the short list," military analyst John Pike said
The F-14 squadrons that returned Friday were from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, which has been on a six-month deployment for the Iraq war. The Roosevelt was to return Saturday to nearby Norfolk Naval Station.
source: FOX NEWS 10 March 2006
(Información tomada de Jeansy, HC515JE, miembro de Hovercontrol.com)
Como dijera mi chole: "Se nos jue... se nos jue!!"
Toda una era, con la que crecimos los fanaticos a los aviones de combate y a las películas del genero de la epoca. De verdad me entristece mucho esta noticia... fan No. 1 del Tomcat.
Un saludo solidario,
P.D. Mensaje sin acentos, para que no vayan a empezar.
U.S. Navy Retires 'Top Gun' Jets
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — There will be no more dogfights for the Tomcat.
The last two squadrons of the sleek, Cold War fighter jet returned home from their final deployment Friday, two decades after the warplanes were glamorized in the 1986 Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun."
All 22 Tomcats of fighter squadrons VF-213 and VF-31 arrived in style, flying together in a wedge formation over Oceana Naval Air Station as hundreds of sailors and their family and friends cheered. Some wore T-shirts reading "Tomcats Forever" and a banner proclaimed, "Last Fly-In, Baby!"
"We're putting the premier fighter to sleep," said pilot Lt. Jon Jeck, 32, as he held his 3-year-old son Collin. "It's a staple of Americana."
The Navy plans to replace the F-14, a two-seat fighter with moveable swept-back wings, with the F/A-18 Super Hornets.
The F-14 entered service in the early 1970s to defend aircraft carriers from Soviet bombers carrying long-range cruise missiles.
"If you want to think about airplanes that have defined the air age, this would have to be on the short list," military analyst John Pike said
The F-14 squadrons that returned Friday were from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, which has been on a six-month deployment for the Iraq war. The Roosevelt was to return Saturday to nearby Norfolk Naval Station.
source: FOX NEWS 10 March 2006
(Información tomada de Jeansy, HC515JE, miembro de Hovercontrol.com)
Como dijera mi chole: "Se nos jue... se nos jue!!"
Toda una era, con la que crecimos los fanaticos a los aviones de combate y a las películas del genero de la epoca. De verdad me entristece mucho esta noticia... fan No. 1 del Tomcat.
Un saludo solidario,
P.D. Mensaje sin acentos, para que no vayan a empezar.
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