A plane director guides a Navy Fighter Weapons School F-5E Tiger II adversary aircraft onto the runway for takeoff on a training mission. Referred to as "Top Gun," the school provides air combat maneuvering (ACM) training for Navy and Marine Corps pilots

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A plane director guides a Navy Fighter Weapons School F-5E Tiger II adversary aircraft onto the runway for takeoff on a training mission. Referred to as "Top Gun," the school provides air combat maneuvering (ACM) training for Navy and Marine Corps pilots

description

Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Naval Air Station, Miramar

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: JOC Kirby Harrison

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Jets!

Fighter planes and military aircrafts.

Collection - Jets!
Fighter planes and military aircrafts.

date_range

Date

15/08/1982

place

Location

32.87446, -117.13787

Google Map of 32.87446389999999, -117.1378713

create

Source

The U.S. National Archives

link

Link

https://catalog.archives.gov/

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