Talk:Top Gun: Maverick

Painting

Near the admiral's office, this 2011 painting (artwork -sold out!- by Stan Stokes) shows some of the most emblematic aircraft of a century of American naval aviation.

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Of the 56 past and present aircraft carriers of the US Navy, those six symbolise nearly 90 years of ship borne airbase :

• N1 : CV-1 USS Langley
• N2 : Yorktown class
• N3 : CV-9 USS Essex
• N4 : CV-41 USS Midway (after the 1955 Ship Characteristics Board modernization)
• N5 : CV-59 USS Forrestal
• N6 : CVN-68 USS Nimitz

The 52 aircrafts of the flypast are directly identified on the painting; only these twelve ones are captioned here due to small avaiable space to write and ... some questionable identification :

• A1 : ?
• A2 : Curtiss BF2C Goshawk
• A3 : Grumman F3F-2
• A4 : Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator
• A5 : Boeing F4B-4
• A6 : Curtiss F6C-2 Model 34D
• A7 : Curtiss BFC-2 Hawk
• A8 : Martin T4M-1 (or licenced-built Great Lakes TG-2)
• A9 : Curtiss F8C-5 Helldiver (later designated O2C-1)
• A10 : ?
• A11 : ?
• A12 : Curtiss F6C-3 Model 34D

(first issue based on a poor quality still by LVCDC (talk) 16:34, 23 August 2022 (MDT))

This complete rewrite by LVCDC (talk) 10:56, 30 August 2023 (UTC)