Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
Bucking Bar
You post great stuff but I gotta call shenanigans on a DL captain being the high time F-14 pilot. Dale Snodgrass with 4,800 hours in the Turkey is widely recognized as the high time guy and retired after 26 years in the USN.
No less a source than our Smithsonian says you are correct.
This gentleman (who's name I am not going to post) flew USN, then went to Grumman where he did production test work on the aircraft coming off the line. I do not recall what he said his TT in T was, but in production test work, flying profiles in every single new airplane as it is built a guy can get a lot of time if the program is moving along. Maybe he was the highest time in some variant and I missed the distinction, maybe the D since that would fit the timeline.