Top Gun 2 Trailer
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I saw one flying around the cr airport circa 1988 from an overpass on a rainy cloudy Saturday. It was magic.
Wouldn’t that be good for LGBT types?
This should answer your question.
I seriously doubt Cruise is actually piloting those F-18's. I'd assume he's in a two seater for filming and they CGI it to make them look like single seaters with him piloting.
I'd say we don't have to worry about the "super secret MiG's" being F-5's this time around, too. Hell, they probably would be able to get some actual still flyable (and deadly) MiG 29's for this one.
Given modern movie making, they can make this look really good with the flying sequences. So, it'll devolve to the story whether it's actually a good movie or not.
Hopefully, they left the cheesiness out of it this time.
Well it looked pretty real to me and according to the crazy one himself.
“Everything you see in this film is real. We're working with the Navy. I wanted to give you an experience of being inside that aircraft," says Cruise.”
And while the military will not allow civilians to fly military owned aircraft, apparently there are a couple former Blue Angel model civilian owned F-18s and allegedly Tom cruise was piloting one of them for certain scenes.
Here’s one for sale for only a mil. Tom Cruise probably has a dozen cars that cost more. And allegedly production was put on hold for a year so Tom Cruise could safely learn to pilot the civilian F-18 just like he did the helicopter for the last Mission Impossible.
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~nmartin/newhome/TheonlyF.html
See my previous post, allegedly he really did pilot a civilian owned F-18. They did say that Tom Cruise is not ALWAYS piloting “his” F-18 and that most of the time it’s a military plane and a military pilot. But some scenes are allegedly him in a real demilitarised F-18. Remember the F-18 isn’t some new bleeding edge aircraft, it’s actually older than me (1974) in its original version.
Apparently Maverick will be piloting some top secret plane at some point as there are set pictures where he’s wearing a high altitude, high g gear like the SR-71 pilots have to wear.
I have no idea where I heard this but for some reason I was under the impression that drone warfare was going to be heavily involved in the movie. There was nothing in the trailer.
Not gonna lie, the prospect of some 50 year old pilot beating a computer with straight up balls would be pretty ****ing great.
This movie might just be what this country needs.
Not gonna lie, the prospect of some 50 year old pilot beating a computer with straight up balls would be pretty ****ing great.
This movie might just be what this country needs.
The horror of loving America is more than some can handle. I get it. It’s not your fault.
“In a May 2019 interview with Collider, actor Jon Hamm had nothing but praise for the high-tech filmmaking techniques intended to give Maverickaudiences an in-the-cockpit experience.
“They’re using some technology on this that has never before seen,” said Hamm. “We’re shooting the movie in, I think, 6K. So it’s incredibly hi-def. The aerial footage is mind-blowing. And it’s mostly practical. There’s not a lot of CG. Those guys are really up in planes and getting thrown around in multiple Gs.””
The drone rumours stem from now dead director Tony Scott saying that what was what he wanted to do. The current director has said (whether true or not) that the idea was nixed.
Besides there’s already a movie about pilots topping a stealth drone in the movie Stealth.
Lulz, the stupid thing isn't even in theaters and people in this thread are already going to their 'who loves America more' corners.
I've had plenty of experience in mig21s and 29ks. My relatives in the Indian airforce fly them. There was a 21 at the SAC museum and on the USS Intrepid. In Russia, helicopters, usually prefixed by Mi or Mil have even number designations like the Hind Mi24. Migs usually have odd numbers, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31 and 35. Top Gun called them Mig 28s and used F5 Tigersharks to represent them. Admittedly, back in 1986, getting real Migs was difficult but at least come up with a fake odd number.
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I so badly wanted to become a navigator (my eyesight was always far too bad to become a pilot) when the original came out. Then the wall came down when I was in college and by the time I joined the Air Force there was such a reduction in force that it was nearly impossible to get a slot; I would have needed a waiver for my eyesight to even be a navigator. Ended up with a desk job for 5 years; oh, well. A more accurate portrayal of my military experience would be Office Space.
Is it really finally coming out in May? It's been pushed back so many times I'm losing interest in it.
My question...he was a LT (O3) in 1986 and he's a Capt (O6) in 2022... how the hell is he still in the Navy? He got 3 promotions in 36 years? And they let him stay in?
Hollywood don’t play by the same rules bro.
Pete Mitchell's kid doesn't have that kid of pull, even with COMPACFLT
