USAF Tells Pilots Who Fly at the Speed of Sound to Slow Down While on a Motorcycle

Perhaps one of the most iconic scenes in cinema is the one showing a young Tom Cruise on the back of a Kawasaki GPz900R racing an F-14 Tomcat fighter jet as it took off. It's a scene from the original Top Gun, obviously, and it helped a lot with linking the image of the country's aviators to that of skilled motorcycle riders. But the tie American pilots and other U.S. Air Force (USAF) personnel have with motorcycles goes much fu... (continue reading...)