If you were a teenage boy when Top Gun came out in 1986 like I was, you thought how great it would be to be a fighter pilot. Then you could fly cool jets, and get great women like Kelly McGillis.

How long ago was that movie? 24 years? Yikes! (perfectly safe for work)


http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/red-c...kheimer#photo0
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We're getting old!
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Plus she came out of the closet about a year ago.
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I'm getting slower in my old age :-)
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Was that really 24 years ago? Goodness gracious, great balls of fire! (:-)Someone had to say it...)
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Witness.....
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On top of that, the F-14 Tomcats were retired several years ago, and in the interest of national security (read: Iran) they were sent straightaway to Captain Crunch.
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God, I miss that plane!

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Last movie I saw before I joined the Army in '86. :-)
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Ironic that Iran is now the last user of F-14s (assuming they're even capable of anything beyond keeping tarmac from flying off into space).
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...and with that you really dated yourself...that has to go back at least 50 years...:-)

Hmmm...wonder what it means that I recognized it...:-)
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I do too, but spent NO time around it. I have said many times, though, I remember being at Wilber's BBQ in Goldsboro, NC and having one fly over the parking lot and I swear it looked like an aircraft carrier flying over that highway. Or at least a destroyer. GIANT. Biga$$ F-15 is about HALF that size. BUT THIS is what I worked on....
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I thought this was fitting, given the subject....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv6fo...rom=PL&index=7

I prefer this version (without the guitar)...somehow it always sent more of a tingle up my spine.
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Guess which version I prefer?

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:-)
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This is also fitting, especially since we know now that Ms McGillis has come out of the closet. (Rated R. Audio not safe for some places of work.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyN8V...eature=related
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Maybe...but Lt. Mitchell still got the girl at the end of the movie!

Here's another kinda-sorta related (?) clip....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nKuo...eature=related
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