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@@blueofthelightanddark6273 23:29 Iceman takes hits down the side of his aircraft, shuts down stbd engine. 24:00 Iceman takes even more gun hits

@@Solidboat123 Hollywood rules- no such thing as aviation gunnery above 50 caliber

I was going to comment on this, then saw you already had. I guess this helps explain how the helo got back at the same time they did, though.

@@wildwind4456 Nah, the helo was supersonic lol

This was a quality comment

Oh man I found an on demand source of airwolf. wow that was low quality tip to tail. Fun to watch as a gag though.

Let's get mover to ruin it as a new helo pilot

Thank you for posting AIRWOLF THEME . When supersonic helo was mentioned, I thought, like many, of the show,. I remembered J.M. Vincent and Mr. Borgnine, but could not recall the show's name. I was trying to challenge myself, by not googling for the show's name.

@@ba946x4 I know that feeling😄

Same

So true, I remember when we traveled to NY and while my Friends where taking a Look at the whole Carrier in 2 Hours all I did was looking at the F14 on the Deck 😂

+785 thumbs up

That's what I did when I went to USS Lexington in high school

@@dt7843 Grill me a cheese.

And now it's gonna be 3 to 4 hours because Goose didnt do that very ONE JOB!!

Yeah...every "oops" I just keep waiting to hear: "just extended your debrief by an hour "....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@scarecrow108productions7 ssswwsswsssswss

Lol

Yeah it's a bit over-the-top to say the very least. But then again it is Hollywood.. anything realistic would be more like a documentary. Don't ever expect Hollywood to make it realistic.. and I don't mean Rick "Hollywood" Neven

I'd contribute a few bucks to a good cause in order to see Mover and Gonky attend a Maverick showing dressed in their shortest cutoff short shorts and drenched head to toe in coconut oil.

@@Josway37 Wearing Ray Ban aviator shades

And better yell TOMCATS! at the opening credits

Mover said he was going to do that, meaning a special screening for charity

Answer: red.

You do know that Marine pilots are better trained, right? OpFor: Let's get that guy. Marine: Surprise, MFer. There's 30 more of us.

@@ningen1980 Its just a meme... I have 2 AF friends, about half a dozen Marine friends (grandfather was a Marine and cousin is a Marine), 3-4 Army friends. Its just a meme.

4YA PVE server plays the Top Gun theme when the mission completes by capturing all airbases. :D

A: at least a box, the rest get eaten to help with the taste of the windex.

Thanks man 👍

And I gotta have an anti vent gas can for my lawnmower that does everything right but pour gas to save the environment from my 2oz worth of vapor i may lose in a year. Glug glug glug, pssshhhhh, glug Meanwhile , Hollywood : dump 50gallon cause it looks cool. Lol

I think it helped show movement . It was added to show some speed .

@@Piledriver2235 drill a hole in the top of your gas can and put a screw in it as a release valve. Take the screw out before pouring and you wont have to fight with it anymore.

You are correct, Sir!

Yeah some very childish professionals they make joke about everything jeez

@@JUNIOR_2002 then don't watch the video

@@JUNIOR_2002 can't take a joke? It's a movie.. Not a documentary... 🤣

@@Glee73 no im not saying that or insulting it im just saying i prefer more professionalism like the pilot from 74 gear

Russell_2002 Change your username to Karen_2022

Then how do you explain how every single human in this movie was sweating in every single scene?

Ships built in the 50's / 60's never had AC that worked well anyways, and what AC there was was for the electronics rooms (radio, radar, etc).. Sweating to death was normal.

@@midniteoyl8913 CICs have been air-conditioned since WWII. I've been on warships built in the 50s and the bridge, CIC, mess halls and crew quarters were air-conditioned. That in a Navy that is tiny compared to the US's.

@@Gearparadummies Everyone had better comfort than us. Use to absolutely loved the German Corvettes for the relative comforts. Ours sucked. We technically 'had AC', but it wasnt a priority and didnt work well at all. Use to sleep in one of the radar rooms, as the electronics had priority, or on fantail in the right weather, as the births were way too hot and stinky. CIC could get just as hot and sweaty when fully manned. Indian Ocean was particularly bad.

@@Restorationshopyt California

Neil Ritchie I’m STILL laughing at that one.

@@mactac25 Yeah, the comedy in these videos is underrated :)

That's why they call c.w "mover" he's a professional 🤣

Nine months later and I'm still laughing

oh. my. god. YES.

That would be beautiful

I was just coming to the comments to say this exact thing. HOT SHOTS!

Shoot....Hot Shots was perfect. It was pretty much exactly like being in a Navy fighter squadron!

Especially when the plane spins in mid air 🤣

Mover (From the previous part): Navy! It's what we do in the Navy.

That is an unfortunate name to have XD

Yeah. It can happen because in a flat spin, the aircraft is falling straight down, so the fuselage shields the canopy somewhat from the aerodynamic forces that normally cause it to fall behind, so it doesn't separate sufficiently from the aircraft. Another thing that is worthy of note was that at this point, the F-14A flat spin was thought to be unrecoverable (they later learned that it could be recovered, but you had to do exactly the opposite of what you would do in most aircraft, because of the interaction between the fully-swept wings and the tailplanes prevented normal spin recovery methods from working, but by that time the F-14B was out, and compressor-install-induced flat spins were largely a thing of the past (you could still put a B in a flat spin, but it required mishandling the aircraft pretty badly. Of course, I have put the F-14B in a flat spin in DCS, so that probably says something about *my* virtual piloting skills (granted, it was the first time I ever flew it, and I hadn't adequately read up on its unique handling characteristics at that point). Note to DCS F-14B pilots: High AoA + low speed + lateral stick input = bad. Use your rudders to roll at high AoA or things will get very ugly.

I met an F/A-18 pilot who was injured during an ejection. He was taking off and was about 50 feet off the ground and the plane suffered a catastrophic engine failure. He hit the ejection and got out just as the plane started to roll. His WSO wasn't so lucky. He got ejected when the plane was entirely inverted and was launched straight into the ground. The pilot had compression fractured up and down his spine from the force of the ejection and the angle he was launched at, and from the landing because he was so low to the ground. He also a shattered leg and a broken pelvis from the landing.

@@joshuasill1141 I swear I remember reading about that, one of the first female WSOs to die in the Navy right?

@@maximaldinotrap real unfortunate. No wonder he survived.

John B Thanks for your service! 🤙🏻

@@theegg-viator4707 you are welcome

It's a damn shame that the Tomcat isn't around anymore because the Wolfpack got disbanded and vf-2 is now flying Legacy Hornets on steroids

@@PanzerVII-df8hg oh, thats right! I forgot about that. Art Scholl's mishap during filming background footage for the flat-spin scene. May he rest in peace. However, I was refering to the story of a different real-life mishap that the military advisor explained to the writers when they were writing the screenplay, where the canopy of a jet got stuck in a low pressure zone above the plane during an ejection. and pretty sure it was a fatal mishap too.

A Buddy of mine worked on Ejection Seats, in the Navy, at Miramar, while they filmed this movie. The seats should have pierced through the canopy. It was the only thing he hated about the movie plus his head shouldn't have been sitting higher than the seat. Goose shouldn't have died like he did in the movie

True, but he wouldn't have simply bounced off the canopy and snapped his neck, anyway. Ejecting into a burbled canopy would have resulted in ejecting THROUGH the canopy. He would have had his head driven into his chest, both arms severed, chute pack torn off, etc. They'd have found ol' Goose in several pieces across the desert.

The MiG-28 in Top Gun is actually the F-5. MiG-28 doesn't even exist.

@@maximaldinotrap Pretty sure they know lol

Splash the zeroes.

In the commentary they said they had to lie to I think it was the secretary of the navy, that the tomcat really didn’t get that close to the ocean lol

Real M61 Vulcan sound

Tomcat has 8 of the engines on the SR71. Plus a whole stack of JATOs.

He would have been in combat range at 80 nmi-90 nmi. The F-14 had the "long range" AIM-54 and multi targeting capability. One F-14 could have easily sent 6 of those missiles at 6 different targets. Iran took out 62 Iraqi aircraft with those missiles.

Dude, math? Take your witchcraft and realism else where. This is the interwebz.

@@orlock20 Do you really want to be lobbing a self targeting missile into a furball that one of your teammates is a part of? Roll a 10 sided dice on an 8 or 10 your teammate get's tagged by your missile.

@@linusa2996 That's one of the reason missile types are called out and why there are wizos. Shooting from long range has some risks, but also getting in close and possibly getting shot down also carries risks. Another risk is while closing for shorter ranged missiles, the friendlies get shot down by enemy aircraft.

About the ejection from flat spinning aircraft - shouldn't the canopy get thrown away by centrifugal force? Not remain directly over the plane?

@@jakubdabrowski3846 centrifugal force doesn't exist, so not so much. Its an illusion created by centripetal forces causing lateral acceleration of a point with tangential inertia.

@@jakubdabrowski3846 I suppose you would expect the canopy to exit the circular motion in a straight line tangential to the motion - regardless of what you call the force. The sequence is very quick canopy-rear seat-front seat. I think the designers of the seat understood the predicted path of the canopy relative to the seat sequence under normal conditions. I don't think they quite understood the predicted path in the flat spin and so as a precaution included jettisoning the canopy.

@@kayakutah Doesn't everything happen automatically when you pull the handle or face curtain?

Clay Lacey is the company that films air to air with the Learjet. He has that market cornered for a long time.

CJ "Heater" Heatley III once said : "Let me get my hand on the D model (F-14D) and there won't be a fighter on the planet that can stick with me". Pretty awsome... 😉

What AirWolf???

He did have a ride (several actually) in the Tomcat, but the footage couldn't be used because of the whole visor thing, and since they weren't briefed for every maneuver, they were thrown around so much that the footage was unusable.

Still my fave line he ever said "okay wso, arm your seat. You're our last flare"

That's not enough money.

I heard $20.

I was out there on the Connie from 85-89. You guys were docked right in front of us.

razorbackblood06 dedication !

razorbackblood06 I'm 72, and have an old Honda CB900 Custom with a handlebar mounted windshield. I've have ridden in fog and rain. Super props to you as a rider and to your dedication, riding your sport bike in a rainstorm that far.

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I'm guessing it wasn't McDonald's coffee, because he would start looking like Freddy Kruger at some point if it was.

@@orlock20 Hahahahaha

Charles Ormond Indeed!

It was a Saab commercial. And IMO the other great Tony Scott film (not only, but one of them) is Days of Thunder. I cannot watch a NASCAR race on television without falling asleep in 5 minutes, but I will watch Days of Thunder start to finish no question any time it's put on TV. Days of Thunder is probably one of the bigger reasons I wanted to start getting into track driving and racing. Rather than beat Top Gun into the ground, I hope the next Tom Cruise long-belated sequel is a Days of Thunder sequel, but maybe this time going back to the racing Tom Cruise actually participated in and do it based on GT3 or something similar as NASCAR is a total played out snoozefest nowadays.

70s were my fav era for naval. Loved the squadron colors on the planes and the variety: S-3, A-6/7, F-4/14, A-4/3/5. F-18s coming on the scene ruined everything haha.

Yes it is. The bathroom scene with Maverick and Charley was filmed in a head in the commander's building on the RTC side of base. There was a brass plaque on the door that I got to shine everyday while I was in R&O waiting for my company to form up for boot camp.

Really, I didn’t know that. What flaws of the F-14A (other than the TF30) that eventually fixed in the F-14B?

Someone's a little confused.

There's a lot of miniature/model work mixed in done by Colossal Films, including missile shots. Only two missile shots are real (albeit reused a couple of times).

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But the F-14A also have the TF30 Pratt & Whitney engines.

He did, actually

It’s been done

Ethan Higgins but not the opening scene

@@freespiritaviation6221 yes it is

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