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The tail hook is to grab the trap in case they have a major malfunction...such as losing your right wing. And, I don't remember seeing any F15s in Top Gun. They had F14s, A4s and F5s as far as I can remember.
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things
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