If you've seen the movie “Top Gun: Maverick,” there are so many references and jokes to be made here. This is, after all, an air museum built near a former active air base. There are four loosely worded references to quotes from “Top Gun: Maverick” contained within this report. Can you find them all?
The Grissom Air Museum opened in 1991 and is primarily focused on military aviation during the Cold War era, 1947–1991. The aircraft on display are on loan from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and U.S. Navy. The museum does not receive any financial support from the U.S. Department of Defense, so turn in and burn if you would like to make a donation.
Originally, the Navy opened the base in 1942 as the Naval Air Reserve Base Peru. This lasted until 1954, when the U.S. Air Force made it an active base named Bunker Hill Air Force Base. In 1968, the base was renamed after Indiana astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom as Grissom Air Force Base.…