Jester: “That was some of the best flying I’ve seen to date – right up to the part where you got killed.”
With the latest Top Gun sequel, I felt these striking images would be well-timed.
Official caption: “Showing off their camouflage versatility, a flight of TA-4J Skyhawks from the ‘Cylons’ of Attack Squadron One Twenty-Seven (VA 127) fly in formation with a Squadron A-4F Skyhawk. VA-127 has the mission of training aircrews in a realistic air combat maneuvering (ACM) adversary training environment.”
Although undated, they are from the early 1980s, before the unit was rebooted as VFA-127 flying F-5s and T-38s, and was a regular at NAS Miramar (“Fightertown USA”), about the time the original Top Gun was filmed.
Photographed by Bruce R. Trombecky. NHHC Photographic Section, Navy Subject Files, Aviation.
Photographed by Bruce R. Trombecky. NHHC Photographic Section, Navy Subject Files, Aviation.
You just have to love Heinemann’s Hot-Rod…