Simply put, Top Gun: Maverick is one of the best movies of the last ten years

In 1986 my son wasn’t born yet .. he was only born later.. n we aren’t American citizens… yet today he’s in Pensacola training to be a naval fighter aviator… his ambition was pushed by the ‘86 film … watched it when he was 8/9 years old

My granddad was a balloonist in WWI. My parents both served in the Navy. They flew small engines as a hobby. It's how they met. My uncle was a test pilot just before the Space program got started. I loved the Top Gun movies. I have great admiration for our servicemen and women

The Tomcat might be the single most beautiful jet ever built.

3:34 Top gun + Tom Cruise = Tom Gun

THIS MOVIE WAS THE BEST I HAVE SEEN IN DECADES!!! IT DESERVED AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE....... it was snubbed by Hollywood at no surprise. It has EARNED every penny of $1.5 Billion dollars. I have watched it 3 times in the theatre and it still gives me goosebumps.

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Maverick, TG2 has several cheesy scenes, but anybody who loves flight and aerospace, you have got to love Top Gun and Tom Cruise for using real jets and real pilots. I am so glad this happened, because my dad loved this movie because we built every aircraft model you can think of (except, oddly enough, no F-14, just an F-111, F-16, and F-4). Unfortuantely, he passed away the year it came out, and I had waited two years for this movie to come out. I loved it. THANk you to everyone involved.

My husband did two tours on the Board of Directors of the Marines Memorial Club. I spent the night there at least once every month for a few years. We are both life members. The ship's bell in the lobby is from the USS San Francisco. She was at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 and my uncle (Pearl Harbor survivor) was a crewman onboard ship that morning. The Club allowed me to "borrow" the lobby one year to promote Constitution Day for the Daughters of the American Revolution. The very best USMC Birthday Ball, bar none, is at the Club every year. That said, it was a very pleasant surprise and joy to see this production filmed at the Club as we haven't lived in the Bay Area for 16 years. Brought back some fantastic memories. Thanks for sharing!

It was said that Tom Cruise even at his age because of his physical fitness and his abilities he could actually have passed the fighter pilot school. This was said from a fighter pilot on set. I don't know his name but it can be referenced and verified. That's quite an amazing compliment.

Both movies were beyond amazing!!

Top Gun most definitely inspired me to become a pilot.

Thank you, gentlemen, for your service to America. Long before I was born, my dad was in the military. He wanted to be a pilot, but he could not because of his eyes and had to wear glasses. So in the army he was. Later, when he left the military, he worked for Delta Airlines loading and unloading cargo. I am thankful for his service, too.

I was a crew chief on F4 Phantoms (& got to fly it) when Top Gun came out. It was about time a movie like it had come out. It looks really cool and glamorous, but damn, it's a lot of work to make those machines turn & burn. Most people have no idea how physically demanding it is to fly a jet fighter day in and day out....and not get killed in the process. It's real & very serious stuff, very humbling when folk never come back, you never forget those moments.

Ahh comfort for the soul Top Gun film 1 & 2 . I’m a Brit I think we have the SAS best in the world USA has the best fighter pilots. And the best air craft carrier ships . I’m glad we’re on the same side 👏👏👏👏👏👏

in the 80's I was heavily into all things aviation, astronomy, computers and music. When Top Gun came out (and some other notable films like Iron Eagle), becoming a pilot was the goal. I was that same generation of kids that saw ourselves being heavily influence at becoming a naval pilot mostly due to TopGun. I went to August Martin H.S. in NY, under their aviation curriculum. Joined C.A.P civil air patrol and was actually trained flying cessna 152's and 172's. My instructors were ex naval pilots themselves, call-sign Die Hard and ( I cant remember the other instructors call sign :( As it so happens, i didn't know till years later that our flights over Grumman in long island were the very place that they created and tested the F14 and A4's. You just don't associate the military with NY. But, one of the highlights of my years in CAP, was a meet and greet with an F-18 that took off from Grumman airbase (now called Culverton airpark), and upon it lifting off from the runway, came right beside us in the cessna. An experience so surreal its even hard to believe it actually happened, except for the massive moment of fear i had moments prior. We actually crossed into restricted airspace as we were warned to stay clear, but our instructor seemed like it all was just routine play, and as we were passing over the runways at around 3000 feet, when myself one of my fellow classmates and the instructor witness the F-18 on the tarmac prepping to take off. we were all geeking out over seeing fighter jet on the runway, classmates immediately mistook the plane for an F-14, but as an avid Amiga user, and player of simulators, particularly F-A/18 Interceptor (an amazing sim at the time) i knew exactly what it was, a hornet!. God, talk about geeking out, Then as we slowly crept up the towards the runway length wise, A small truck pulled along side it as we were looking down slowly making our way up the runway. I then saw the jet making its run, down the runway and lifting off as its shadow split away from beneath the aircraft diagonally. Climbing, it slid beneath our cessna and i could no longer see it, but knew it was climbing fast. At that moment, i understood the situation, and i fell into a moment of guttural terror, because i knew at any moment he could collide with us. Talk about ones life flashing before you in seconds. I could see it all unfolding, the moment of impact, the horror, death, the reporting on the evening news, my families grief, the love of aviation cut short in a horrible accident, Its was a truly horrible feeling. But then, out of nowhere, he popped up right in front of us!!! The Hornet pilot had saw us all along, and our instructor knew exactly who he was. He hung around us but for a few seconds which seemed like minutes before hitting his afterburners and rapidly shooting off to higher altitude towards the Atlantic. We could only see his contrail heading off into the distance. And our cessna's over fuselage wings didnt help any. Ironically it was that day and that moment that gave me a jolt of realism over the fantasy of it all. A real wakeup call. The amazing experience made me realize that the job of a naval pilot was serious, and not a movie, that one minute you can be up in the heavens and all is just fine and next minute blown out the skies in the blink of an eye. And it all just coming to and end, one pop, and game over. I still loved aviation but i respected that fear and that life and death reality. And respected those brave enough to also come to that reality and continue with it head on. but for me, my career choice switched to my other love computer animation, of which i figured i could do all which i loved on the safety of being firmly on the ground. Computer animation was all together a new thing barely seen in any film. now i'm a senior animator with years of feature films under my belt. And my Fellow CAP classmates really did become naval pilots, later commercial pilots, and now instructors themselves. And im currently making fighter combat shots for an up and coming film. Turns out, TopGun did make dreams come true for many, though i would say, many would only learn later on, the start reality of what its all truly about. and that takes a ton of guts and sacrifice of the highest order.

Top Gun: Maverick surely made a mark in filming indusrty and on a personal level, loving the first "Top Gun"..

Great flying and watching the film was fantastic. Love so much that it was live action and not CGI....... This is really a plus for the movie industry and Hollywood

At about 35:50 Walleye talks about Google Earth and if you're not familiar Google Earth has a flight simulator available. You have two aircraft to choose from. A small slow flying or a fighter jet. You can control them just with keys or whatever on your device but I'm 69 and grew up with joysticks so finally found one under a shelf at Walmart. It was like perfectly designed for this. In fact it can do more things than needed....set flaps, fuel and controls for like a real plane. Neh, i wanted up, down, turn and throttle. I live in a beautiful valley named Sequatchie in SE Tennessee and i got whereci could fly at bout a 100 feet at over 500mph. I learned more about the valley and surrounding areas than i had ever imagined. In fact i learned that i was wrong about many things. I got to where i was about to ask my wife if she had heard me buzz the house it seemed so real. To do it justice you really need a laptop or desktop with decent size screen and lots of memory. Higher memory the smoother the graphics and earth images. It's addictive to a non gamer like me. Only thing better would be if Google would add sound to the planes.....engines, wind, etc. Maybe radio traffic. Come to think of it if you could talk to other folks flying the simulator, even fly in the same area that woukd be fantastic and probly make money. Hint, hint.... Neway, now I'm inspired to did out my laptop. Fly happy. Visit my valley. The Sequatchie Valley in Tennessee. rick. Dying of cancer as of Sept 16, 2023. The pilot of a Corvette and a Plymouth Prowler and a Harley Badboy Springer Softtail for a bit longer then hopefully, but doubtfully, i get my wings..... Yeah, corny.

I love this video and share this quote with you too, “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -David Brinkley.

Top Gun and Maverick have probably been the two most successful recruiting campaigns for the US Navy.

Just watched Top Gun Maverick yesterday. They did such an outstanding job. I really enjoyed the film. Wish my Dad could’ve seen it with me. Now I know why the scenes looked so authentic. Super how they coordinated all this together. 🇺🇸

And thank you for the Engineers at Boeing, General Electric, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and many others for creating such an amazing aircraft. You guys help pilots make these things looks so damn cool👏👏👏👏👏

Crazy, "Ferg" was my assistant Air Ops Officer on the Constellation. I had no idea he was one of the main dudes behind this film.

Huge respect for ‘em

Fact: Actors did sit in the F-18 but they didn't fly the thing. They were sitting in rear seat while real pilot doing all the maneuvers. They had to go through extreme G. Kudos to real fighter pilots for their skills

Awesome video. Thanks for all that everyone did to make that movie. I totally love it. Thanks so much for your service to America. Tom Cruz and pilots are incredible.

I’m so glad I’ve seen the guys who worked on top gun ❤️

Was lucky enough to have been in the Aviation field of The Navy and on The USS Constellation during the time of the first Top Gun. Love these Beautiful and incredibly powerful jets and @TomCruise 🥰 roaring through the skies and in my heart… 🥰🥰🥰

Thank you for your Service

My bucket list includes to take off on a aircraft carrier. In the opening credits it states MARCH 3 1969 Was the birth of top gun. I knew I was going to like this movie. I was born MARCH 3 1960

That was absolutely awesome!!! Thank for your service as Naval Aviators! You go Walleye! Coming from Pine Mountain Georgia!

This is awesome to hear them talk about the 🎥 ❤

Talking about being inspired by Top Gun to pursue aviation: I graduated high school in 1986. I was fortunate enough to be accepted to both MIT and Air Force Academy (USAFA). Knowing that Hollywood would have an undue influence on my decision, I communicated to my dad upon entering the theatre that I was choosing MIT. Well once we exited at the end of the movie, with the Top Gun theme reverberating in my head, I turned to him and said, I’m going to be Maverick. Fast forward 8 months, I have gone through USAFA boot camp and through most of my first term when I determined that I required glasses, the feedback was taking 21 credit hours and studying late at night was to blame. The Air Force Optomatrist announced to me that I was still navigator qualified. “But”, I responded, “Goose dies” and with that I transferred mid-year to MIT, graduating with a degree in Aeronautics in 1990. Interesting thing is the sharp increase in students in Aero/Astro, course 16 at MIT. Normally between 25 and 50, the 1990 class was 200. They had to build a whole new set of lecture halls to accommodate. Between the Challenger accident and Top Gun there was a lot of interest in going Mach 2 with their hair on fire!

Combat aviators are special people. I was rejected because I couldn’t make my eardrums move - I simply had to drop my jaw to equalize (still to this day). Ended up helping combat aviators in a more secure fashion.

You guys are rockstars. Couldnt be more badass. You couldnt make your families more proud they can always brag on you.

I did. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Thank you for telling the stories and I'm sure there is more detail where that came from.

Thank you all and for being an uber driver and air boss for this movie!!!

It’s not often a sequel betters the first movie, this one didn’t better TG1 it smashed it😂😂😂😂😎

i cried everytime i see goose's tribute and i cried so badly when i saw iceman and also his death. extreme nostalgia.... they were brothers and i'm a grown man.

Thank you. My first time seeing a Star Trek gams like this. Look forward to the continuation

Let's go. Love you guys. Amazing stuff here

Tom, I have two men in my heart, Tom, and Maverick. Muuuaaa

Thanks

great job guys...IT'S SO APPRECIATED!!

I had the HUGE honor of flying the simulator at Miramar. I cannot remember if it was the F-18 or F14? She handled like a dream on take-off and in-flight. I was so looking forward to the landing but that was not to be. I was told to fire my rockets. While locating the button on the stick to fire the rockets I forgot about my airspeed. That plane became an elephant in the sky and I wallowed around trying to regain control of my aircraft. I augered her right into downtown San Diego. I was so mad at myself but what an incredible experience. I immediately called our eldest son (a CH53-echo USMC pilot at the time) to tell him what had just happened. That experience was the thrill of a lifetime!

3:33 He said Tom Gun

The RAF Dambuster Pilots flew their Lancaster four engine heavy bombers to their targets in Germany at NIGHT at 50 feet. Many brought parts of trees home in the airframe. Mosquito pilots routinely flew 50 foot levels to attack targets such as the destruction of the SS prison in France that enabled the escape of hundreds of resistance members who were about to be executed. An American P51 Mustang pilot followed a Luftwaffe BF 109 that he was dogfighting over Paris UNDER the Eiffel Tower. So my point is 450 Knots over dead flat desert sort of pales in comparison. The same can't be said for the awesome lowlevel canyon sequence.

America, you listen to these people talk about briefings and simulators and training of actors. And you have to realize not only have these people been doing these things. But they have been doing it for a long time. Totally amazing. You don't see this kind of thing from other countries. Why. Because its expensive, dangerous, and has the potential to be catastrophic. I salute the greatest air warriors ever known to man. United States Navy... Go navy...

39:43 Thank you sir. Well said.

I am glad I served with honor in us navy. I was deck ape in my two navy ships Afs4 and bb62 my six years total active duty I did 4 years was at sea. I am glad I served under awesome President Reagan during 1 st Lebanon war.

Outstanding!

Thanks you for sharing this video's

Great interview 🎉

Wow - what a great talk. Thank you for this. All of you. Walleye, you can be my wingman anytime! Truth be told I would be honored to be your wingman anytime. You are a cool and accomplished dude. It just so comes out in how you guys relate.

Damn!!! That’s some serious sh-t!! Huge fan of the sequel . Thankful Tom has the courage to make a movie like this ! so interesting to hear the behind the scenes with the real American heroes

Love this doc. How all briefd to TC. Do Salute !

Tom Gun is one of the greatest actors

The original was probably the best NAVY recruitment movie ever made.

Great team wish we could get along in the world

Fantastic. For the love of flying, for the love of fighters and the amazing people who fly them. Also: waht are you EVER gonna do as an actor that will top that?

HOOORRAAAAHHHHHH to all my Sister Squadrons. Former Plane captain at VFA-131

And they just won 1 oscar for sound, lol

Very very good video

Imagine how heartbreaking it was for me when I was young and wanted to be a fighter pilot only to find out that I was disqualified because A history of asthma 😕

I think it's probably true to say that aboard a carrier if it's aviation related then it's the air boss's responsibility.

The F-14 is THE badass fighter. The F-4 Phantom is a close #2.

Foi meu filme favorito 😊

Northrop F5 Price/performance unbeatable

FYI that Air Force F-35 commercial also had a F-22 in it ;)

Agree

The one thing missing from the movie was the music from the original, the fast beat went along with the flying.... Was exhilarating.

How do they Land when not going under 100ft?

I have to say I think some older fighters like the tomcat,eagle, tornado etc are sexier than most newer fighters

What’s up it’s maverick hope your having a great night sorry watching me in my old videos

00:31 Camera between exhaust?

Fabulous..just Fabulous ✈️

Air Boss is the actual director.

Walleye is a top G 😎

Bravo I got a good lock . Firing ( Scratch four )

Being an aircrew member I was a loadmaster on c 5 and c 130

I have watched this movie 3 times

👍 Clear

Yes. Updated!🤭💕🥰 Honor to all!🙏🏾💕🥰

Joseph Benjamin Sladeski is not looking for a voice. He has the voice.

to be honest though, what are your chances to actually land on one of these aircrafts as a recruit?

Fly Navy!

The interviewer just referred to Tom Cruise as "Tom Gun" 😂 at 3:34.

Its amazing thats these guys get to play on our money

This was 1 "bad-ass" video!

No way under the current state of our weak leadership! God bless those lost pulling out of Afghanistan. More like 65% down and only 5% or less are even physically and mentally fit to serve!

Who played the su57 pilots

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Just wait until the Rainbow Alliance gets themselves some of those Tomcats. Old 'Tomcat' Tom Cruise could still lead from the front. Hell John Travolta could be his wingman. Hell yeah lol

Beautiful movie

Sunday finally finished with the new King Jesus Christ Amen 🙏💞🙏

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And the US Navy has a squad of partialy trained pilots they can call up and use in time of need ;)

3.38 - who’s Tom Gun