Top Gun tattoo
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That's a "tattoo artist" piece of art for sure. I wonder how much?$?$?$?$
JHZR2
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That’s quite a tattoo…. Not a fan personally of tattoos, but I can see that this work was quite a work of art and tattoo-realism….
and I am looking forward to the top gun movie - and will probably go see it in the theater. The first movie I will have gone to the movies to see because I want to see it since I don’t even know? Gladiator?
and I am looking forward to the top gun movie - and will probably go see it in the theater. The first movie I will have gone to the movies to see because I want to see it since I don’t even know? Gladiator?
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Looks correct to me!
Ha. I used to know a former Marine who watched the filming of a street scene with Cruise and McGillis in San Diego.
A few years before the original movie came out I was stationed at Clark AB and rode GOV full dress, motorcycles. Being a GOV, I could ride on the access road bordering the active runway. Every now and then I would come off the street and line up on that road with the F-4s and F-15s as they prepared for takeoff. The pilots got a kick out of me racing them as they began to roll. I of course, always had the initial jump but it didn’t take long for them to pass me. It was the only Motors unit in the AF so I felt pretty fortunate for those races. When I went into the Marines I was also assigned to their only Motors unit in Okinawa. Don’t think the AF would have been too happy if I tried that on Kadena but would have loved to race one of their SR-71s.
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Drew a lot of attention with the locals who would take pics from the road off base (Hwy 24?) at the end of the runway.
It’s just a tattoo. Wouldn’t be my first choice but to each their own.
I have always loved that airplane. I've got several books on it. Even have a copy of the flight manual, read from cover to cover. When I had a choice, between USAF and USN flight training (I was accepted to both) - I strongly considered the USAF for a chance to fly that airplane. Ultimately, the chance to fly off a carrier determined my decision.Was on the NAVY side at Kadena and every time the the HABU would takeoff it got all our attention.
They are special. Who knows when we may have to take them out of mothballs for service again. I know satellites pretty much replaced them but if they were to get hacked….
I always liked how they would go into an immediate vertical climb after takeoff.
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