Ray Ban Aviator

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Tom Cruise wearing Ray Ban Aviators in the movie Top Gun. Top Gun popularized the Aviators in the 1980s.

The Ray Ban Aviator is a type of sunglasses manufactured by the Ray Ban brand of Bausch & Lomb, which was sold in 1999 to the Luxottica Group.

Created in 1936, the glasses were developed specifically for pilots and were used by the military. In 1937, they were made available to the general public. The popularity of the film Top Gun, in which Aviators were used by lead characters, led to their sales increasing by forty percent.^{[citation needed]}

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