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safariguy
05-19-2010, 04:40 PM
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-carpet/gallery/2625/a-cinematic-celebration-of-jerry-bruckheimer#photo0
Steve
05-19-2010, 04:47 PM
We're getting old!
forgop
05-19-2010, 04:49 PM
Plus she came out of the closet about a year ago.
Steve
05-19-2010, 04:49 PM
I'm getting slower in my old age :D
mariogolbee
05-19-2010, 04:57 PM
Was that really 24 years ago? Goodness gracious, great balls of fire! (;sSomeone had to say it...)
hotreds
05-19-2010, 06:27 PM
Witness.....
M1903A1
05-19-2010, 07:42 PM
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.
hotreds
05-19-2010, 07:50 PM
God, I miss that plane!

http://www.montgomeryaviationphotography.com/nasoceana2006/resizedf14100b.jpg
kelmac07
05-19-2010, 08:02 PM
Last movie I saw before I joined the Army in '86. :tu
M1903A1
05-19-2010, 09:49 PM
God, I miss that plane!

http://www.montgomeryaviationphotography.com/nasoceana2006/resizedf14100b.jpg

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).
Neuromancer
05-20-2010, 10:30 PM
Was that really 24 years ago? Goodness gracious, great balls of fire! (;sSomeone had to say it...)

...and with that you really dated yourself...that has to go back at least 50 years...:banger

Hmmm...wonder what it means that I recognized it...:D
OLS
05-21-2010, 07:20 AM
God, I miss that plane!

http://www.montgomeryaviationphotography.com/nasoceana2006/resizedf14100b.jpg

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....
M1903A1
05-21-2010, 06:11 PM
I thought this was fitting, given the subject....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv6foKX5BQY&feature=PlayList&p=EB97C58293333692&playnext_from=PL&index=7

I prefer this version (without the guitar)...somehow it always sent more of a tingle up my spine.
Eleven
05-21-2010, 07:57 PM
Guess which version I prefer?

http://www.gossipboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/top-gun-kelly-mcgillis.jpg
JE3146
05-21-2010, 08:10 PM
Guess which version I prefer?

http://www.gossipboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/top-gun-kelly-mcgillis.jpg

:eek:
safariguy
05-21-2010, 08:20 PM
I thought this was fitting, given the subject....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv6foKX5BQY&feature=PlayList&p=EB97C58293333692&playnext_from=PL&index=7

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

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=vyN8VN4BSzM&feature=related
M1903A1
05-21-2010, 09:07 PM
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=vyN8VN4BSzM&feature=related

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=2nKuoNhihh4&feature=related