Today’s featured aviation tattoo is one of the most iconic and well-known jet fighters in the world — the Grumman F-14 Tomcat.  Thanks mostly to its role in the wildly popular movie “Top Gun” from 1986 starring Tom Cruise, the F-14 was one of the few military aircraft that just about anyone on the street could identify.  For a generation of pilots and military aviators, the F-14 Tomcat and flying just like the character “Maverick” in the movie was the ultimate goal — and it even came true for some tenacious pilots that had what it took and actually flew in the real-life TOPGUN or formally known as the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program.

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