Movies | March 24, 2009 | 4 comments

America's Top Guns taught by the Brits!

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7960000/7960753.stm

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America's elite navy fighter pilots as depicted in stunning, shimmering and shirtless glory by Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer in 1980s film "Top Gun," learned all their tricks by Royal Navy flying instructors. That's according to new book "Phoenix Squadron" by historian Rowland White.

His research has uncovered that there were many British pilots involved in the Top Gun-style programme at Miramar airbase in California - the same academy that inspired the classic film.

This was, he claims partly because it freed up American service-men for the Vietnam war, and because... well the Brits were the best in the business!

So many questions answered .... but one still bugs me; was beach volleyball a mandatory part of the training programme?
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4 comments // America's Top Guns taught by the Brits!

  • shaunandelly
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      shaunandelly  

    • Biggles and Ginger go Stateside. "I say Ginger,Do you fancy taking the crate over the briney to the Colonies to teach those bally cowboys how to fly!" "What ho biggles sounds like a jolly jape! As long as we get back before the rub-a dub closes" "Where's me bleedin pipe !"

    • 3 years ago
  • cyberpixie
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      cyberpixie  

    • If only the Government would invest more money in our already shit-hot military...we have so much potential but fail to meet it by ill equipping our forces. Say what you want about the war, but they decided to sign up whatever the circumstances, and they're sent out with crap equipment and really need more investment.

      *and breathe* :)

    • 3 years ago
  • JcX
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      JcX  

    • LOOOL it's funny i saw goose in a tv drama and was at a friends house and i yelled out "Goose is alive!!!" no one had an idea what i was talking about and i slumped back in my chair in silence...

    • 3 years ago
  • ksimpson
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