William P. Driscoll
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William Patrick "Willy Irish" Driscoll is a retired commander in the United States Navy and a highly decorated flying ace.
Driscoll in 2005
Driscoll (right) and Duke Cunningham in a ceremony honoring them in June 1972
The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program, more popularly known as Top Gun, is a United States Navy training program that teaches air combat maneuvering tactics and techniques t
William P. Driscoll
…accumulated over 3,300 flying hours in jet aircraft and 500 carrier landings. Driscoll later became an instructor at the U.S. Naval Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). He then shifted to the F-14 Tomcat and became an instructor at Fighter Squadron 124 (VF-124), the F-14 Fleet Replacement Squadron for the Pacific…
"TOP GUN" text at the line shack of NAS Miramar, 1984
U.S. Navy Fleet Air Gunnery Unit Pacific aircraft from NAAS El Centro in the late 1950s
An F-16 Fighting Falcon and an F-14 Tomcat engaged in a mock dogfight as part of Top Gun training in 1989
Mechanics at the flight line of NAS Miramar, 1984