A former Navy Top Gun with decades of flying experience forgot to put his plane's landing gear down during an air show practice run in Tucson in March, the Federal Aviation Administration found.
Retired Capt. Dale "Snort" Snodgrass, a seasoned pro on the military air-show circuit, was piloting a Korean War-era F-86 Sabre that scraped to a stop and caught fire in the March 4 mishap at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
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I'm fairly sure that the demo of the soon-to-be-delivered-to-the-Navy F-14 that knocked my socks at Oshkosh off many years pre-"Top Gun" ago was piloted by one Captain Dale "Snort" Snodgrass.
"We thank Captain Snodgrass for not eating Paul's plane." (They did a carrier abort demo with Paul Poberezny is his P-51 on the runway when the F-14 came in behind.)