The Key West wood frame structure is now Kelly's Caribbean Bar Grill and Brewery, owned by Top Gun star Kelly McGillis, with its wing-shaped bar nodding to the spot's place in aviation history.
She listened quietly as I fumed and sobbed, not saying anything while one of our favourite movies — Dirty Dancing. Less Than Zero, or Top Gun — played in the background.
In the newscast, the way a target was hit by the air-to-air missile fired by a J-10 fighter aircraft and exploded looks almost identical to a cinema scene from the Hollywood film Top Gun.