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The day 70 Libyan Fighters were Scrambled to Intercept US Navy F-4 and F-14 Aircraft that Crossed the Line of Death in the Gulf of Sidra – The Aviation Geek Club

On Aug. 18, 1981 no less than 35 pairs of Libyan interceptors, including a total of 70 MiG-23MS’s, MiG-25Ps, Mirage F.1s, and even Su-22s, Su-22Ms and MiG-25RBs, were sent to intercept US Navy aircraft. Advertise In 1973 Libya’s then-ruler Col. Gaddafi had decided to declare the waters and airspace within almost the entire Gulf of …

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“Splash the Zeros!” F-14 pilot who flew in The Final Countdown shares his personal notes on the movie that introduced the Tomcat to Hollywood – The Aviation Geek Club

Six years before “Top Gun” prominently featured the F-14 Tomcat, “The Final Countdown” proved that Grumman’s twin-tailed fighter had star quality. Designed in 1968 to take the place of the controversial F-111B, then under development for the Navy’s carrier fighter inventory, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat performed its first flight on Dec. 21, 1970. Overall, the …

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We shed light on the Kill scored by Commander Emory Brown against a North Vietnamese MiG-21 (Brown was VF-84 CO when the Jolly Rogers did the flying scenes for the movie “The Final Countdown”) – The Aviation Geek Club

We have been interviewing Commander Emory Brown, USN, Ret. who inspired us since childhood when his squadron VF-84, did the flying scenes for the classic Time Travel film “The Final Countdown.” A 54-Year-Old Mystery: Potentially Solved It is not often that you get to potentially solve a Half Century old Aviation mystery, but sometimes different …

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