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Top Gun Maverick

What Top Gun 2 Got Right And Wrong About Navy Fighter Culture

By Joe “Smokin” Ruzicka / Published Aug 15, 2022

F-14 Tomcat lost air show demonstration tapes

Behold The Lost F-14 Tomcat Demo Tapes

By Joe “Smokin” Ruzicka / Published May 6, 2022

F-14 Flyer Looks Back At What Made The Soon To Be Scrapped USS Kitty Hawk Special

F-14 Flyer Looks Back At What Made The Soon To Be Scrapped USS Kitty Hawk Special

By Joe “Smokin” Ruzicka / Published Jan 28, 2022

A Hornet Weapon Systems Officer’s View of the Navy’s Suffocating Jet Crews

A Hornet Weapon Systems Officer’s View of the Navy’s Suffocating Jet Crews

By Joe “Smokin” Ruzicka / Published Apr 5, 2017