Jennifer Connolly plays Penny Benjamin, the admiral's daughter mentioned when Maverick and Goose are being chewed out for saving Cougar in the first movie. Stinger: Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. You've been busted, you lost your qualification for section leader THREE TIMES, put in hack twice... by me... with a history of high-speed passes over five air control towers and one admiral's daughter! Goose: Penny Benjamin? Maverick: (shrugs)
@@jindas4217. It was about 20 years since I last saw TG before Maverick came out and I got it right away. But then again, I watched the first movie about 10 times too. So I can’t really be like “How do you not know who she is? You just watched the first movie not too long ago at all.” It’s inconsequential in TG and they slip it in there offhandedly. It’s an easy miss.
Her name is mentioned twice in the first movie. And there is no on screen appearance. Most people don't catch it unless they've seen the original several times...
So, there’s a small detail that F14 enthusiasts would notice about the ejection handles not working at the end of the movie. The F14 had a lock pin that would prevent the ejection straps/handles from being pulled while the aircraft is parked or being maintained. When you’d get in the plane to fly, the RIO would have to remove the pin to arm the ejection seat. Since Maverick wasn’t responsible for this, he wouldn’t necessarily remember it given the situation stealing the aircraft. And Rooster wouldn’t have necessarily known about it since he would never have been trained on it. It’s a neat little detail IMO.
F23 s are US Air Force. I wish the Navy could have adapted them. Yep I believe the Navy looked at them for use but yep, no carrier landing compatibility. And we all know toilet seats and wrenches in the military cost $40,000. IMHO the F22 is a great plane but yhe F 35 Mafia got the USAF to hate the F22, allegedly due to high maintenance costs. As far as the movie and the Navy "s F35s, Maverick says in the beginning that the target jamming takes the F35 put of the picture. In real life, NO Marine Corp or Navy Jet IMHO operating off a regular carrier or an amphibious assault carrier should EVER, EVER, be single engine like the F 35. Crayola big time. The USMC, and USN 6th gen fighters had better be twin engine or they better invest heavily in to invisible Search and Rescue/ SAR Helicopters.
F22 also has no STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) capability. The F35B has a STOVL capability though. But, the F22 is arguably a better fighter, and stealthier than the F35. But the F35 is certainly more versatile.
@@kenny240 Not arguable in the slightest, the F22 is the best fighter in the world. Unfortunately, even though they’ve received some tech updates, they’re aging and Russia and China have caught up with the Su57 and J20. Hell China has even surpassed us in the number of J20s compared to the number of F22s.
This is a movie that really is meant for the movie theater experience. If I had to pick one movie to see in the theater out of everything I've seen in my entire life, it would be this movie. It was different, it was worth it.
I saw it in theaters on the 4th of July, 2022. To this day, I haven't seen the original Top Gun all the way through, but I do know the basics of the story.
2 facts. penny is the Admirals daughter talked about in first one and the 33 rounds left in last dogfight is an image to the 33 years between movies at time of filming
Wow your guy's video quality has drastically improved and you guys are so underrated. Your camera quality is much better, Mic quality, production, and even your intro is so amazing. I don't regret watching a single video from you guys. Love yall, yall are so underated
Tom Cruise may be an actual pilot but the military is not letting him actually fly. It is a blue angel pilot actually flying. Tom Cruise is a passenger
For the scene where Maverick proves the mission can be done. Cruise also flew with at least one or two other fleet pilots during filming. But the ex-Blue Angel guy did the ultra low level scene.
I watched this in the cinema with my son and at certain points the whole theater was cheering it was such a great atmosphere and in the cinema it was mind blowing with all the noise and action, it was so good I went back to watch it again a few days later ❤
The love interest “Penny Benjamin” was only mentioned in the first movie as Mavericks first love. She was the Admirals Daughter that was referenced early on when Mav and Goose are getting chewed out, and later on the double date with goose and his wife, goose’s wife tells the Military Adviser “Charlie” all about the time Mav went ballistic with Penny Benjamin.
People were bummed out by Charile being replaced, but it’s easily explained without onscreen exposition… Charlie was career driven and got the job in Washington that she was going for. Maverick is a Naval Aviator, his place is in a cockpit, taking off and landing on boats. He also was briefly a Top Gun instructor. Their respective career paths caused them to separate, and as Mav stayed in the Navy on the West Coast, he regularly rekindled his on/off relationship with Penny.
@@CoffeeMatt10 And have you seen what the actress who played her looks like now in real life? The way Hollywood works, Tom Cruise would never be caught in a romance scene with her these days.. She even admits some of that in an interview. Even she knows.. Age has been kind to Tom Cruise, but not Kelly Mcgillis
The thing about Hangman’s attitude during training is: He was absolutely right. He was doing precisely what Maverick should’ve been doing. Rooster was clearly on a slow burn, so Hangman put a stick of dynamite under it. Bringing up someone’s dead parent wasn’t gonna earn him points with the group but, if you’re gonna explode emotionally, better to do it in the classroom than on the actual mission.
I watched this in a theater, twice. The sound design was just amazing. In the intro when the F-18 goes full afterburner on the carrier deck, I had a full body eargasm. o.O
The aircraft you described at the beginning, is not the F-22 Raptor. The F-22 is an "Air Force only" asset. The aircraft that has the three configurations you described is the F-35 Lightning II. It is in the inventories of the Air Force (F-35A), Navy (F-35C), and Marines (F-35B and F-35C). The F-22 and the F-35 are the only 5th-Gen fighters in the United States inventory .... At the moment.
What a lot of people miss is that Rooster isn’t mad at Maverick all movie because of his dad’s death but rather because Maverick set him back in the academy.
@@apmaxson83 Yes. I’ve seen several reactors say “ah Rooster blames him for his Dads death.” JV says in this reaction “do you think he blames him for getting his Dad killed or that he left him.” They don’t clearly explain this multiple times. It’s mentioned that he interfered with academy but it’s not evidently clear that rooster and goose did have a relationship before that. It’s obvious when you’ve watched the film a couple of times but it’s not spelled out for the audience.. otherwise every reactor wouldn’t have these same questions.
Rooster to Phoenix: "He pulled my application to the Naval Academy. Set me back 4 years." Maverick to Penny: "I pulled his papers from the Naval Academy, took years off his career..... He'll always resent me for what I did." These both happen in the first half of the movie as well as an implied reference while talking to Ice. If people are truly missing this it's because they aren't paying attention, not because the movie doesn't make it clear.
Just FYI, Tom cruise was not actually flying. He was sitting in the back seat of a 2 seat configuration F-18. Similar to how Bob is sitting behind Phoenix. They just made it look like he was in one of the single seat variations.
That roof lifting was not part of the plan, it was what actually happened during the fly by and how could you not keep it in the film, it was one of those unplanned, unexpected awesome moments in the making of a movie❤️
Great reaction! What's amazing is that all the actors, including Tom Cruise did flight training with the Navy to handle being in the cockpit. That's why all the footage you see looks so good because it's all real, albeit the actors are just passengers for obvious reasons lol.
As a little kid; my 3 favorite on-screen machines were the Starship Enterprise (1701-D), the DeLorean, and the F-14 Tomcat. That 3rd Act reveal and subsequent dogfight was one of the most satisfying theater experiences of my life. It may have been a giant dose of fan service ... but it was fan service done right.
You're right, he shouldn't be able to eject at Mach 10. There's a theory that he died and the rest of the movie was a dream of redemption he had during his death. Makes sense.
I saw the original in the theater when it was released in 86’ ( the year I graduated HS) this movie was worth the wait . I cried like a baby at the nostalgia callbacks . It’s couldn’t be any better . ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☑️
Bruh, you are literally the FIRST reactors I have seen react to this movie who actually know what Mach means and therefore understand the significance of the DarkStar program.
Justin you are a brave man for letting your wife slide it in and goose you. 😉 love you guys. Also Hangman hits 86 on the juke box. That is the year TopGun came out, and David Bowies "Labyrinth" also David Bowie is playing on the Jukebox.
Answer to many of your questions, as a few have stated before. 1- those are not F22 Raptors, the Raptor is an Air Force jet like the Viper (F16) and Eagle (F15). They are actually F35’s or affectionately called Fat Amy and the Navy, Air Force and Marines all fly their particular version. The main reason they did not showcase the F35’s in the film is because it is only a single seat air craft. The Super Hornet (F18) comes in both single seat and family model (2 seat). They wanted to put the actors into the jet and have them fly (not pilot), so all the scenes you get of the actors they are actually in the back seat of the jet. What is really great though is the fact that Tom Cruise was able to do a Cat-Shot, so it is actually him in the back seat of the Super Hornet when they are launched from the carrier, which is really cool. Tom is an actual pilot and that is actually him flying his personal P51 Mustang at the end of the film. He took Jennifer Connelly up in that plane and from what I hear she enjoyed it. This is a near perfect film, seeing the original back in the day in the theater was amazing and this film got everyone my age feeling full of nostalgia. Only complaint is the sound of the gun in the Tomcat, that is not how that cannon sounds, not even close. And that is truly not a huge deal. I bought a new theater set up in my house because of this film, the opening to this film and the original Top Gun are 100% testosterone fueled happiness. Thanks for the great reaction- love watching these films with new people, brings me back to the theater.
Also, in the original film the actual star is not Tom Cruise, he was known but not that well known. The actual star was the F14 Tomcat. It is 100% why they brought it back in this film, no other jet is as iconic on film as the Tomcat. Fast, swept wing design and super powerful. It has a screen presence larger than life and the US Navy retired them about 18 years ago, they are very expensive to maintain but the folks in Iran still fly a few of them.
Top tier intro, amazing, I could literally feel myself in the cockpit with you guys, the g's are incredible, and the ejection sequence, you guys should make movies
F/A 18s have 1 seat and 2 seat versions. Mav and Rooster are in the 1 seat version and their laser crews are in 2 seaters. The flight scenes for 1 seaters were flown in 2 seaters with Tom and Miles in the backseat.
54:22 some real Navy/Air Force legit pilots reviewed this movie on their YT channel (MoverRuinsMovies, or something like that) and they said that move is possible in these new aircrafts, but not recommended in fighting. The reason being is that missles have a prox trigger. When the missle has a lock like here and then the target suddenly moves like that but is still close, the missle instantly explodes. So the move wouldnt work IRL. another thing, when they are going "what...the..." and "WTF was THAT???" All Maverick had to do, was move slightly to the left and he could turn the Su57 there into swiss cheese.
Great reaction to an incredible movie! From what I remember a friend of mine telling me years ago (and he was an aerospace engineer who had worked on high speed test flight programs for a couple of decades or so) a lot of the more advanced high speed test planes under development at the time were being designed with what he called a canister ejection system, where the plan was the sealed cockpit would be jettisoned by the ejection system with the pilot inside and a series of high tensile parachutes would deploy one at a time and slow the canister down before being torn away until it had slowed enough that the pilot would be ejected from the canister and parachute to earth as normal. I suppose that this futuristic plane would be equipped with a similar sort of system. Cyclone absolutely does care if they come back. But he knows that this is basically a suicide mission, so he's just thinking about getting the mission completed successfully and not thinking about the cost the mission will extract. And Warlock is absolutely a member of Team Maverick. 😀 It's cool to see Bob in an F-18, since we saw the actor's, Lewis Pullman's, real life dad Bill Pullman in a movie where he was a former F-18 pilot who gets back in the cockpit again. The relationship with Charlie was going to be a short lived one with Maverick's propensity for getting in trouble with an admiral and being shipped off to be another admiral's problem. Charlie was a dedicated career woman who would have been happy to stay on as an advisor for the Top Gun program as it was a prestigious posting. But once Mav was booted as an instructor, Charlie wasn't going to drop her career to follow him around. I'm not even sure that their relationship would have survived the couple of months Mav was at Top Gun because his tendency to get into trouble would have had her in the middle of a serious crapstorm, stuck between the man that she was interested in and the superior officers that she worked for, and who wants to be in that? The amusing thing for me that almost no one seems to get is that Hangman is not Iceman but is Maverick as he would have been if he had been flying one of the single-seat modern fighters instead of the two-seat F-14s used in the original Top Gun. The main thing that kept Maverick from being what Hangman was is that Mav always had Goose, who was his conscience in some ways, riding brakes on Mav's worst impulses and making them not so bad. Mav was responsible to and for Goose, and since Goose was his only family Mav usually held himself in check so he wouldn't let Goose down. Hangman didn't have a back seater to be responsible to and for, so he could go all out to prove he was the best he could be and better than everyone else, which justly earned him his callsign: because he'd always hang you out to dry to prove you weren't as good as he was. Luckily, and thankfully, Hangman learned the important lesson about teamwork through Mav, who uniquely understood Hangman's driven personality. Hangman's character development was a very well done part of the movie too. In an early script, Hangman was to be Ice's son. I'm glad they scrapped that. Val Kilmer, of course, had been fighting throat cancer in real life, but it was important to have him in this movie and he wanted to be there. His voice in the scenes was a programmed synthesized voice, but it was perfectly his voice as it might be. It was so good to see them as such close friends, and to know that Ice had constantly been Mav's guardian angel, keeping him in the service no matter what Mav did to get himself dismissed. And it showed a lot of how well Ice really understood Mav, and explains a lot of Mav's behaviors in the early movie. Mav is basically suicidally depressed when the movie starts, but he's not the suicidal type, so he looks for situations where he can go out doing what he does best, but he fights to survive anyway because that is his nature. Ignoring how he feels he focuses on something else that he can control: flying. All Mav has is the service. He has no family. Even Goose's family he's not close to, though we only learn why as the movie advances. The Navy and the people he works with, best shown in Hondo, are the only family he has. So he pushes beyond Mach 10 because he's going to be booted from the poject and he'll lose the team/family he's been working with and, knowing as he does that Ice has been fighting cancer, he is aware that his long-term guardian angel might not be able to keep him where he wants and needs to be. His time is running out, and he's well aware of that, so if he stays in pure Maverick mode and pushes juuust a bit more, and a bit more again, then maybe he can go out doing what he loves before that is taken away from him too. So he does. But he survives. And his guardian angel is still able to shift him back to someplace he needs to be. And, whether this was Ice's grand plan knowing who all from Pete's history was there or not, Mav ends up where he needs to be to reestablish a will to live beyond the military. Reestablishment of his old family with Rooster. Rediscovery and, much more importantly, a new appreciation of an old flame. And suddenly Mav has every reason to not die in the cockpit. So, of course, he must go and do something that could very easily make him die in the cockpit. In a Hollyweird full of shallow and dull movies and shows with shallow, poorly done scripts and no actual thought behind them and shallow, unrealistic characters who only change in shallow ways if at all, a movie of this great depth made me so happy to see. I can watch it again and again and love it still. So very well done.
In junior high our classmate's dad was a fighter jet pilot and came in on career day to talk to us. If you eject you blood vessels in your eyes are going to pop and he said if don't brace yourself your limbs will get ripped off.
2:31 incorrect, that’s not a Raptor. That’s the F-35C Lightning II. The F-22 Raptor is an Air Force jet only. The F-35 has 3 variants, F-35A (Air Force), F-35B (Marines), and F-35C (Navy) 😊
He was able to stay alive because I was told by test pilots that experimental planes like that have an enclosed cockpit that stays intact when the plane breaks up keeping the pilot safe inside the capsule. Then it parachutes down.
9:39 Flight in aircraft of extreme speed capabilities are often considered with ejection capsules in mind, so the pilots don't die instantly upon contact (at this point we could consider it a "collision") with the outside air. The ejection capsule concept came to be as early as on the experimental Bell X-2, capable of mach 3. For reference, the X-1 was the very first craft to successfully break the sound barrier.
In real life he would’ve died instantly ejecting at Mach 10, because of the 7,672mph winds hitting him and tearing his body to shreds. Supersonic wind is enough to kill you, so imagine what high-hypersonic would do. Unless he ejected inside of a protected capsule connected to the plane. Which I’m assuming he did :)
When everything goes wrong he’s obviously not going that fast lol, the engines probably gives out and then it keeps slowing down and he probably ejected at a safe pace
It’s actually not clear if it would be totally unsurvivable. An SR71 pilot survived the breakup of his plane at mach3+ at 80,000+ft. While the speed is massive the atmosphere is very thin so aerodynamic forces on the pilot weren’t enough to kill him. An ejection system (cockpit ejects with pilot) that protects the pilot at speed and altitude would have likely been one of the requirements of the prototype plane he was flying. So I put his survival as plausible.
The footage here was real -- the close-up cockpit shots were taken during real in-flight sequences. This meant that most of the cast of pilots had to actually undergo extensive G-force training sessions to withstand the physical demands of G-force pressures during flights. They also had to film themselves from the cockpits (and adjust their own lighting, makeup, and sound!). Cruise himself designed an aviation course for those playing the pilots that took place over 3 months so they could handle their time in the F-18s. Miles Teller is probably most famous for playing the drummer in the movie "Whiplash." Val Kilmer's speech was dubbed by another actor for him. The movie is dedicated to director Tony Scott, who was the director of the first Top Gun. Tony sadly died by suicide in 2012. His brother is Ridley Scott, who still survives and directs films.
F22 is Air Force. The Navy flies F35’s. Technically the F35 is the joint strike fighter so the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps all fly the F35. Tom Cruise is 60
Tom Cruise didn’t actually fly the F18. They were in real F18s for the cockpit shots but none of the cast actually got to fly them. He did however fly the plane at the end which is his own plane. And yes this movie was insane in DBox 😂
SR72 is Mach 6+. Orbit is Mach 20. Gen 5 planes have software-controlled emergency maneuvers. Gen 6 has a manned mother ship, the rest of the flight are AI drones in wireless network.
22:50 it’s not so much that it’s not a priority, it’s that it’s those few pilots’ lives vs millions of lives (sacrifice the few to save the many), mission success is the top priority, getting home is the bonus. Cyclone is the one who has to task those men and women to do these types of missions, he almost has to detach and desensitise himself from the mission and the man in order to make these decisions. So as callous as he sounds here, he does care and wants them to come home, it’s just that he has accepted that some of them, maybe none of them, may come back. As he says “every mission has its risks.” 53:44 Easter egg to the original Top Gun: when he’s in the classroom and Charlie makes a suggestion to him, he makes a counter - “if I reverse on a hard cross, I can immediately go to guns on him” - here he is, reversing on a hard cross and immediately going to guns on him. Just to clarify, it’s the F-35 Lightning, not the F-22 Raptor, and the reason they didn’t use it is because they couldn’t film the cast in it, so they came up with an excuse (GPS jamming) to rule it out as an option and use the F-18 instead. The F-18 has a 2 seat version, which allowed them to film the cast in the backseat… they couldn’t fly the planes themselves, Cruise even asked if he could be trained and was told no, as civilians are not permitted to fly military aircraft, so they had Navy pilots in the front seat while the cast sat in the backseat. Cruise wanted as much authenticity as they could get, and that was the compromise… they still got to “fly” in the jets and experience G forces for real while acting. The final act where Mav and Rooster steal an F-14 - when Rooster says “how are we gonna get this museum piece in the air?”, it’s very appropriate as the ground scenes were filmed using an actual F-14 that they shipped out to location from San Diego Air and Space Museum, so it is in fact a museum piece. All the aerial footage is CGI. The US no longer has active F-14s (only Iran has, amazingly), nor do they have access to the “5th Gen fighter” (aka the Russian Su-57), so the whole sequence is CGI. They did get former F-14 pilots and mechanics in as advisors to help portray the most accurate performance of the F-14… and boy did they do a great job, showing the big girl has some tricks up her sleeve. In reality those wouldn’t be enough against a 5th gen fighter, but this movie is “a love letter to aviation”, and they made sure to show that “it’s not the plane, it’s the pilot”. Easter eggs in the bar scene - when we are introduced to Penny, the song in the background is “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie, who starred opposite Jennifer Connolly (Penny) in Labyrinth. - When Hangman selects a song from the jukebox, he presses 86… the original Top Gun released in 1986. Also, song 86 is “Slow Ride” by Foghat, and while it plays, Hangman teases Rooster about his slow flying style (ie Rooster is a slow rider). - Miles Teller (Rooster) learned to play “Great Balls Of Fire” on the piano for the scene. The scene was shot as a live take. His version was put on the OST, and there is an edited music video for it, so Teller has an official cover of “Great Balls…” to his credit.
21:20 Can't have "eyes guy" since he is sitting in that seat 😋 (Also I believe you can fly F18 only with right hand joystick so he can't touch the canopy with right hand while turning, but he does it, maybe he is so good)
Air density at the altitude where the hypersonic jets would fly is significantly thinner than down low where modern fighters typically fly. With such a significant decrease in air density, flying mach 10 at that altitude and ejecting is basically the same as ejecting at much lower speeds down lower where the air density is thicker.
More that luckily the cockpit ejects. There are several planes that eject the cockpit. F-111 Aardvark, B-1 Lancer , and the Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III. FYI, Val Kilmer's son doubt in ICE-Man's voice for the movie.
There are some good youtube videos with the actors talking about making this movie. They are pretty good. A few of them ended up getting their pilots license. The other funny conversation was when they talked about making the football scene.
I was thinking the same. But the capsule would have to be able to survive in Mach 10 for a split second and then it would decelerate quite fast. Not sure if that sudden deceleration would be survivable either.
Val Kilmer had throat cancer, which was so sad. He was one of the best actors of my generation. You should see him as Doc Holliday in "Tombstone," Jim Morrison in "The Doors," or Chris Knight in "Real Genius." He is a phenomenal method actor who attended the prestigious "Julliard School of Arts."
This actress is Jennifer Connelly her character's name is Penny Benjamin. Penny Benjamin is the daughter of an Admiral and in the original Top Gun she was not in. She was only mentioned in passing and not by name as the Admiral's daughter that Maverick got in trouble for when he did a flyby of her.
Can we just acknowledge that it wasn't just tom that did the plane stunts. They all had to go through rigorous training & were actually flying as well.
12:10 There are multiple states in the U.S that doesn't require a helmet to ride a motorcycle. Each state has different ways to qualify to ride without a helmet. In my home state you need to be at least 21 years old and have a minimum of 1 year driving experience with a license. Anyone under 21 and just has a permit must wear the helmet.
I was 11 years old when I saw the first Top Gun in theaters. Then in 2022 I took my kids to see this movie. It was amazing in theaters with the surround sound and the visuals that have greatly improved since the first film
39:49 Tom Cruise was never flying alone in an F-18. They use the two seat F-18 to film all the actual flying scenes so the pilot in the front seat is doing all the flying and the actors are riding in the back with the cameras.
They mentioned Penny In the first movie . U were talking to each other and missed it. Penny was the admirals daughter who Maverick took on a joyride in a F14 from what I recall .. he spoke about it quickly in Too Gun . The actress who plays Charlie in the first film is about 70 yrs old right now . They didn’t even consider her in the script and didn’t write I. Her character . Created Penny ( who was mentioned in the first film) I adore you two . ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The reason they didn't use F-35s is because they only have one seat and they needed 2-seaters to film. The actors were in the back seat with Navy pilots flying the planes.
About the age of the son: My guess is, the years passed are not a one-to-one with real life. There's no specific reference to what year we're in here, and there's no reference to a specific foreign enemy... I would guess we're just meant to know quite a few years have passed.
The MAch 10 plane is basically 2nd gen SR-72 Blackbird (SR-71 was the original with estimated top speed of Mach 7.2 (classified so this is educated guess)
Opening aircraft carrier sequence were F-35 Lightning II's and F/A-18 Superhornets. Not F-22 Raptors. The F-22 Rapter is Air force, not Navy. Also, neither Tom Cruise nor any of the other actors were actually flying the jets. The actors were in the back seat of the F model Superhornets with an HD wide angle camera mounted on the dash and facing them. So it only looked like they were flying the jets. Real Navy Superhornet fighter pilots were in the front seat flying the planes. That's why it looks so real. Because, in a way, it was real. The actors were up there, with Navy pilots "yankin and bankin" the jets. But in the closing sequence the older propeller driven plane that Rooster and Maverick are working on together is actually one of Tom Cruise's personally owned aircraft. It's a P-51D Mustang. A very old fighter aircraft, left over from World War 2. The best bomber escort of World War 2. And Tom Cruise (Maverick) is actually flying that and taking Jennifer Connelly (Penny Benjamen) for a ride.
Those high velocity jets have ejection capsules similar to the cockpits on Grand Prix race cars that break away and protect a driver in a crash. This plane uses a version of that tech.
The plan at the end of the movie is a P-51 mustang arguably one of the greatest planes ever made for its time period and is one of the reasons why we won World War 2, it’s also Tom Cruises personal plane
Ok, so real quick… it is possible to eject at high speeds, it’s high altitudes that can get you killed easily because of the lack of oxygen. People survived the SR-71 disintegrating around them at ~ Mach 3.2 or so. It’s well know they can go faster, but the real number is not disclosed. The speed of sound, aka Mach, varies. It is not a set number. It depends on the altitude, barometric pressure, humidity, basically the weather in general. That’s because the density of the air determines how fast a sound wave can travel through it. The F-22 is not the aircraft at the beginning on the carrier. The F-22 is an Air Force only aircraft. It couldn’t handle the abuse of repeated carrier landings and/or launching by catapult. This was by design to be lighter, more agile, and carry more ordnance. The planes on the carrier were the F/A-18, which comes in many variants, but is almost exclusively used by the Navy. It replaced the F-14 from the first movie right around the time the movie was made. That’s because the role for the aircraft changed. The F-14 was meant to intercept enemy bombers and planes at a long distance. They were supposed to go fast and far, then lock on to those aircraft, and fire phoenix missiles at them and which also had serious speed and legs for the day. The F/A-18 has many rolls, from signals intelligence (sigint), aerial refueling in some instances, bomber, and fighter. I believe there’s others but I can’t recall them right now. It is a way slower, less powerful, but more able aircraft than the F-14. The radar is better, and the AIM-9 AMRAAM missile is more capable than the Phoenix in many ways, but the warhead is smaller and does way less damage. This is the current primary long range “stick” they have, but they are developing some that ~double the range and warhead capabilities. These will all working in the next aircraft too. The F-35 is the other aircraft on the carrier. It wasn’t used in the movie to help protect the technology, abilities, and tactics. The F-35 is unique in that it is being used by all branches on the military. There are currently three variants. The F-35A goes to the Air Force, the wings are a bit smaller and sleeker as it doesn’t need the additional lift to get off a carrier deck at slower speeds. It is the fastest of the three. The F-35B goes to the Marines. Because they have smaller carriers, they historically used either helicopters and V/STOL (vertical/short take off and landing) aircraft. This was traditionally the roll filled by the Harrier Jump Jet AV-8 (A, B, and C variants). The AV-8 redirected its thrust to take off and land this way, but was very difficult to master. The F-35B also redirects thrust, but also has a little party trick. Just behind the canopy a door opens on the top and bottom of the aircraft’s fuselage. Inside that space is a “fan” that is ran by the main engine. The rear nozzle, which normally directs its thrust straight out the back swivels down and now directs it downward. So, you’ve got upward thrust in the front and rear of the aircraft. The computer handles a bit part of the balancing roll that pilots use to do themselves, making it way more stable and safer to use. Then, once airborne, the nozzle starts to rotate back to the normal position which makes the aircraft start to move faster and faster forward. Eventually theirs enough forward movement to generate enough lift to no longer need the fan up front. So, it closes and the pilot flys the aircraft as usual. All that extra weight makes the “B” variant slower, less efficient, more expensive, and unable to lift the same payload. But, man does it look cool doing it! The F-35C is the Navy version. It has a larger wing area for more lift at lower speeds to help take off from a carrier deck. This makes the “C” also a bit slower, less efficient, but capable of lifting more. I believe we export all three variants to our allies, whereas the F-22 was actually made illegal to export to anyone, regardless of their relationship to us. The military tried this “jack of all trades” technique before, but you usually end up with the “jack of all trades, master of none” situation, and nobody wants that. The F-4 was flown by the Navy and Air Force. Arguably one of the sexiest looking aircraft ever by the way. Both branches made drastic changes to it to fit their requirements. The F-15 was considered to be used like this, but the Navy rejected it and went with the F-14 instead. The F-111 also was going to have this approach as well, but the Navy wasn’t sold on “swing wing” at that point, only to ironically go with the F-14 a bit later. The F-14A was notorious for being bad about “flame outs”. The “A’s” engines were a decent amount faster at top speed, but slower to accelerate. Those reasons forced an engine change that showed up in the “B” variant. The engines in that version were more reliable, had better acceleration, but less top speed. This was considered acceptable as the accuracy and range of the missiles has increased. So, what the planes lacked the legs to do, the missiles had. Sorry for the rant. I’m no expert of these things by a long shot, so don’t think I’m claiming to be. I did have an uncle that was a “Naval Aviator”, and as a kid he knew I wanted to fly. So, probably breaking a lot of rules in the process, he would send me manuals and documentation on the aircraft used by all US branches. Being born in 72, I to read about a lot of the historic aircraft. He sent me that stuff until he retired in the mid 80’s. I used to do book reports on them in school. I even had teachers give me bad grades saying my information was wrong or unverifiable. Imagine their surprise when I’d bring the book in to show them! A history teacher of mine in the 8th grade was shocked to see what I had a copy of (it was about the SR-71, originally called the RS-71 by the way, but President Johnson said it wrong during an address on TV so they changed the name instead of correcting him). He was ex-Air Force and was super pissed that I had that. I explained to him how I got it, but did not mention a name. Two days later I got an A+ on my paper. Anyway, I knew from the age of ~ 5 I was going to be in the Air Force, I never considered anything else. Then at 18, just before graduation, I became a type 1 diabetic. That screwed me out of any military service and any chance of ever having a pilots license. But, because I’ve always loved the subject, it’s something I still read about on at least a weekly basis.
I saw this movie with my whole family in theaters, my father has and still builds the F4-14 engine which is the engine that in the FA-18 super hornet, which means that these planes have the engines that my father most likely built and inspected
Jennifer Connelly is a well known actress and she is married to Paul Bettany from the Marvel movies and he was in my favorite HEATH LEDGER movie "A knights tale". Another must watch movie.
The plane used at end and in first movie are F14 Tomcats. The F16 Viper is used in IRON EAGLE movies which you should also Check out at least 1 and 2 also from 86
A great movie with a great cast is STEALTH. It deals with what happens with an AI drone fighter. Awesome special effects. Including the biggest explosion ever caught on film and can be seen from space.
@10:17 I am not an expert in this at all, however, I've read commentary by some military pilots which stated that ejection approaching Mach 3 would result in all your extremities being broken if not even being ripped off. Apparently some ejection seats had straps that would automatically cinch in your arms and legs to prevent them from flailing around and being injured at high speeds. The SR-71 Blackbird (which I think could get up somewhere around Mach 5 or 6??) supposedly had a little titanium bathtub-like capsule around the pilot that would eject with the pilot to help protect them. I don't believe anyone ever actually ejected from one though. I still find it hard to imagine anyone could eject from anything at Mach 10 and survive let alone avoid severe injuries. @27:55 is butt fingering gonna be a thing on this channel now?? 🤣
Jennifer Connolly plays Penny Benjamin, the admiral's daughter mentioned when Maverick and Goose are being chewed out for saving Cougar in the first movie.
Stinger: Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. You've been busted, you lost your qualification for section leader THREE TIMES, put in hack twice... by me... with a history of high-speed passes over five air control towers and one admiral's daughter!
Goose: Penny Benjamin?
Maverick: (shrugs)
So many people/reactions don't get this referral/reference from the first movie.
@@jindas4217. It was about 20 years since I last saw TG before Maverick came out and I got it right away. But then again, I watched the first movie about 10 times too. So I can’t really be like “How do you not know who she is? You just watched the first movie not too long ago at all.” It’s inconsequential in TG and they slip it in there offhandedly. It’s an easy miss.
Her name is mentioned twice in the first movie. And there is no on screen appearance. Most people don't catch it unless they've seen the original several times...
@blackeychan1970 Maverick shrugging translation: "I don't give a sh!+. It was worth it. Will do it all over again."😒😒😏😏😈😈😈😈🤣🤣🤣🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
This is one of those rare perfect sequels in movie history. It just turned out very well and worked as a great compliment to the first.
So, there’s a small detail that F14 enthusiasts would notice about the ejection handles not working at the end of the movie. The F14 had a lock pin that would prevent the ejection straps/handles from being pulled while the aircraft is parked or being maintained. When you’d get in the plane to fly, the RIO would have to remove the pin to arm the ejection seat. Since Maverick wasn’t responsible for this, he wouldn’t necessarily remember it given the situation stealing the aircraft. And Rooster wouldn’t have necessarily known about it since he would never have been trained on it. It’s a neat little detail IMO.
great point. I missed that
Awesome info. Thanks for that detail.
F-22's were not equipped for carrier operations. The navy now flies F-35's for that role.
F23 s are US Air Force. I wish the Navy could have adapted them. Yep I believe the Navy looked at them for use but yep, no carrier landing compatibility. And we all know toilet seats and wrenches in the military cost $40,000. IMHO the F22 is a great plane but yhe F 35 Mafia got the USAF to hate the F22, allegedly due to high maintenance costs. As far as the movie and the Navy "s F35s, Maverick says in the beginning that the target jamming takes the F35 put of the picture. In real life, NO Marine Corp or Navy Jet IMHO operating off a regular carrier or an amphibious assault carrier should EVER, EVER, be single engine like the F 35. Crayola big time. The USMC, and USN 6th gen fighters had better be twin engine or they better invest heavily in to invisible Search and Rescue/ SAR Helicopters.
@@lukeleia7616No F-23 either, though you corrected yourself later. 😂
@@lukeleia7616f35's are on carriers
F22 also has no STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) capability. The F35B has a STOVL capability though.
But, the F22 is arguably a better fighter, and stealthier than the F35. But the F35 is certainly more versatile.
@@kenny240 Not arguable in the slightest, the F22 is the best fighter in the world. Unfortunately, even though they’ve received some tech updates, they’re aging and Russia and China have caught up with the Su57 and J20. Hell China has even surpassed us in the number of J20s compared to the number of F22s.
This is a movie that really is meant for the movie theater experience. If I had to pick one movie to see in the theater out of everything I've seen in my entire life, it would be this movie. It was different, it was worth it.
Paid the extra for IMAX. Worth every cent.
That end of movie message was cool too
Facts! 💯🙌 seeing it in theaters was a whole experience! Those jet scenes were crazy!
I saw it in theaters on the 4th of July, 2022. To this day, I haven't seen the original Top Gun all the way through, but I do know the basics of the story.
One of the most underrated part of the movie is when Rooster says 'talk to me Dad' and Maverick answers
Yep
“I was trying to be the father he lost”
You are correct. I had never noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out.
@@RogerThatImages you're welcome. I love that moment so much
Yup. I wish that when, at the end, when rooster says "it's what my dad would've done," that he added, "both of them."
2 facts. penny is the Admirals daughter talked about in first one and the 33 rounds left in last dogfight is an image to the 33 years between movies at time of filming
I think you mean homage not image...
“It’s what my dad would’ve done.” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Real men cried in the third act. One of the greatest films ever made
I got misty-eyed when the first note of the Top Gun anthem hit at the beginning of the movie and when Danger Zone kicked in.
The old plane Maverick is flying at the end is Tom Cruise’s actual plane
The P-51 Mustang, a WW2 specialty ❤
Wow your guy's video quality has drastically improved and you guys are so underrated. Your camera quality is much better, Mic quality, production, and even your intro is so amazing. I don't regret watching a single video from you guys. Love yall, yall are so underated
Tom Cruise may be an actual pilot but the military is not letting him actually fly. It is a blue angel pilot actually flying. Tom Cruise is a passenger
For the scene where Maverick proves the mission can be done. Cruise also flew with at least one or two other fleet pilots during filming. But the ex-Blue Angel guy did the ultra low level scene.
I watched this in the cinema with my son and at certain points the whole theater was cheering it was such a great atmosphere and in the cinema it was mind blowing with all the noise and action, it was so good I went back to watch it again a few days later ❤
The love interest “Penny Benjamin” was only mentioned in the first movie as Mavericks first love. She was the Admirals Daughter that was referenced early on when Mav and Goose are getting chewed out, and later on the double date with goose and his wife, goose’s wife tells the Military Adviser “Charlie” all about the time Mav went ballistic with Penny Benjamin.
People were bummed out by Charile being replaced, but it’s easily explained without onscreen exposition… Charlie was career driven and got the job in Washington that she was going for. Maverick is a Naval Aviator, his place is in a cockpit, taking off and landing on boats. He also was briefly a Top Gun instructor. Their respective career paths caused them to separate, and as Mav stayed in the Navy on the West Coast, he regularly rekindled his on/off relationship with Penny.
@@CoffeeMatt10 And have you seen what the actress who played her looks like now in real life? The way Hollywood works, Tom Cruise would never be caught in a romance scene with her these days.. She even admits some of that in an interview. Even she knows.. Age has been kind to Tom Cruise, but not Kelly Mcgillis
The thing about Hangman’s attitude during training is: He was absolutely right. He was doing precisely what Maverick should’ve been doing. Rooster was clearly on a slow burn, so Hangman put a stick of dynamite under it. Bringing up someone’s dead parent wasn’t gonna earn him points with the group but, if you’re gonna explode emotionally, better to do it in the classroom than on the actual mission.
I watched this in a theater, twice. The sound design was just amazing. In the intro when the F-18 goes full afterburner on the carrier deck, I had a full body eargasm. o.O
The aircraft you described at the beginning, is not the F-22 Raptor. The F-22 is an "Air Force only" asset. The aircraft that has the three configurations you described is the F-35 Lightning II. It is in the inventories of the Air Force (F-35A), Navy (F-35C), and Marines (F-35B and F-35C). The F-22 and the F-35 are the only 5th-Gen fighters in the United States inventory .... At the moment.
Thank you! I didn't feel like writing it all out.😁
What a lot of people miss is that Rooster isn’t mad at Maverick all movie because of his dad’s death but rather because Maverick set him back in the academy.
A lot of people miss this? It's clearly explained in the movie. More than once.
@@apmaxson83 Yes. I’ve seen several reactors say “ah Rooster blames him for his Dads death.” JV says in this reaction “do you think he blames him for getting his Dad killed or that he left him.”
They don’t clearly explain this multiple times. It’s mentioned that he interfered with academy but it’s not evidently clear that rooster and goose did have a relationship before that. It’s obvious when you’ve watched the film a couple of times but it’s not spelled out for the audience.. otherwise every reactor wouldn’t have these same questions.
Rooster to Phoenix: "He pulled my application to the Naval Academy. Set me back 4 years."
Maverick to Penny: "I pulled his papers from the Naval Academy, took years off his career..... He'll always resent me for what I did."
These both happen in the first half of the movie as well as an implied reference while talking to Ice. If people are truly missing this it's because they aren't paying attention, not because the movie doesn't make it clear.
@@ShaneOuellette I dunno, it's pretty explicitly explained in the movie why Rooster's mad at Maverick, and it has nothing to do with Goose's death...
@@thedefinitionisthis I agree. I’m just saying I watch alot of reactions and everyone questions this. This reaction included.
I got to be a background actor in this and I cannot believe how great this turned out! Such a fantastic continuation of the story.
Top Gun 3 is in “early development” at Paramount. Both Glen Powell and Tom Cruise confirmed that there is another one coming! 🎉🎉
Just FYI, Tom cruise was not actually flying. He was sitting in the back seat of a 2 seat configuration F-18. Similar to how Bob is sitting behind Phoenix. They just made it look like he was in one of the single seat variations.
That roof lifting was not part of the plan, it was what actually happened during the fly by and how could you not keep it in the film, it was one of those unplanned, unexpected awesome moments in the making of a movie❤️
Great reaction! What's amazing is that all the actors, including Tom Cruise did flight training with the Navy to handle being in the cockpit. That's why all the footage you see looks so good because it's all real, albeit the actors are just passengers for obvious reasons lol.
As a little kid; my 3 favorite on-screen machines were the Starship Enterprise (1701-D), the DeLorean, and the F-14 Tomcat. That 3rd Act reveal and subsequent dogfight was one of the most satisfying theater experiences of my life. It may have been a giant dose of fan service ... but it was fan service done right.
You're right, he shouldn't be able to eject at Mach 10. There's a theory that he died and the rest of the movie was a dream of redemption he had during his death. Makes sense.
I saw the original in the theater when it was released in 86’ ( the year I graduated HS) this movie was worth the wait . I cried like a baby at the nostalgia callbacks . It’s couldn’t be any better . ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☑️
Right there with ya brotha
Bruh, you are literally the FIRST reactors I have seen react to this movie who actually know what Mach means and therefore understand the significance of the DarkStar program.
actually, they used Mach and G force interchangeably later on. lol
@@orangeandblackattack Damn.
It is definitely "Highway" to the danger zone lol
He also says "ride into the danger zone" and "take you right into the danger zone"
Usually love your reactions. But way too much conversation about other things in this one.
Justin you are a brave man for letting your wife slide it in and goose you. 😉 love you guys. Also Hangman hits 86 on the juke box. That is the year TopGun came out, and David Bowies "Labyrinth" also David Bowie is playing on the Jukebox.
Answer to many of your questions, as a few have stated before. 1- those are not F22 Raptors, the Raptor is an Air Force jet like the Viper (F16) and Eagle (F15). They are actually F35’s or affectionately called Fat Amy and the Navy, Air Force and Marines all fly their particular version. The main reason they did not showcase the F35’s in the film is because it is only a single seat air craft. The Super Hornet (F18) comes in both single seat and family model (2 seat). They wanted to put the actors into the jet and have them fly (not pilot), so all the scenes you get of the actors they are actually in the back seat of the jet. What is really great though is the fact that Tom Cruise was able to do a Cat-Shot, so it is actually him in the back seat of the Super Hornet when they are launched from the carrier, which is really cool. Tom is an actual pilot and that is actually him flying his personal P51 Mustang at the end of the film. He took Jennifer Connelly up in that plane and from what I hear she enjoyed it. This is a near perfect film, seeing the original back in the day in the theater was amazing and this film got everyone my age feeling full of nostalgia. Only complaint is the sound of the gun in the Tomcat, that is not how that cannon sounds, not even close. And that is truly not a huge deal. I bought a new theater set up in my house because of this film, the opening to this film and the original Top Gun are 100% testosterone fueled happiness. Thanks for the great reaction- love watching these films with new people, brings me back to the theater.
Also, in the original film the actual star is not Tom Cruise, he was known but not that well known. The actual star was the F14 Tomcat. It is 100% why they brought it back in this film, no other jet is as iconic on film as the Tomcat. Fast, swept wing design and super powerful. It has a screen presence larger than life and the US Navy retired them about 18 years ago, they are very expensive to maintain but the folks in Iran still fly a few of them.
The actor who plays Bob is Lewis Pullman. His father Bill Pullman played the President in Independence Day.
I was wondering why he looked slightly familiar haha.
😂😂😂 I said nearly the exact same thing.
Top tier intro, amazing, I could literally feel myself in the cockpit with you guys, the g's are incredible, and the ejection sequence, you guys should make movies
F/A 18s have 1 seat and 2 seat versions. Mav and Rooster are in the 1 seat version and their laser crews are in 2 seaters. The flight scenes for 1 seaters were flown in 2 seaters with Tom and Miles in the backseat.
54:22 some real Navy/Air Force legit pilots reviewed this movie on their YT channel (MoverRuinsMovies, or something like that) and they said that move is possible in these new aircrafts, but not recommended in fighting. The reason being is that missles have a prox trigger. When the missle has a lock like here and then the target suddenly moves like that but is still close, the missle instantly explodes. So the move wouldnt work IRL. another thing, when they are going "what...the..." and "WTF was THAT???" All Maverick had to do, was move slightly to the left and he could turn the Su57 there into swiss cheese.
Great reaction to an incredible movie!
From what I remember a friend of mine telling me years ago (and he was an aerospace engineer who had worked on high speed test flight programs for a couple of decades or so) a lot of the more advanced high speed test planes under development at the time were being designed with what he called a canister ejection system, where the plan was the sealed cockpit would be jettisoned by the ejection system with the pilot inside and a series of high tensile parachutes would deploy one at a time and slow the canister down before being torn away until it had slowed enough that the pilot would be ejected from the canister and parachute to earth as normal. I suppose that this futuristic plane would be equipped with a similar sort of system.
Cyclone absolutely does care if they come back. But he knows that this is basically a suicide mission, so he's just thinking about getting the mission completed successfully and not thinking about the cost the mission will extract. And Warlock is absolutely a member of Team Maverick. 😀
It's cool to see Bob in an F-18, since we saw the actor's, Lewis Pullman's, real life dad Bill Pullman in a movie where he was a former F-18 pilot who gets back in the cockpit again.
The relationship with Charlie was going to be a short lived one with Maverick's propensity for getting in trouble with an admiral and being shipped off to be another admiral's problem. Charlie was a dedicated career woman who would have been happy to stay on as an advisor for the Top Gun program as it was a prestigious posting. But once Mav was booted as an instructor, Charlie wasn't going to drop her career to follow him around. I'm not even sure that their relationship would have survived the couple of months Mav was at Top Gun because his tendency to get into trouble would have had her in the middle of a serious crapstorm, stuck between the man that she was interested in and the superior officers that she worked for, and who wants to be in that?
The amusing thing for me that almost no one seems to get is that Hangman is not Iceman but is Maverick as he would have been if he had been flying one of the single-seat modern fighters instead of the two-seat F-14s used in the original Top Gun. The main thing that kept Maverick from being what Hangman was is that Mav always had Goose, who was his conscience in some ways, riding brakes on Mav's worst impulses and making them not so bad. Mav was responsible to and for Goose, and since Goose was his only family Mav usually held himself in check so he wouldn't let Goose down. Hangman didn't have a back seater to be responsible to and for, so he could go all out to prove he was the best he could be and better than everyone else, which justly earned him his callsign: because he'd always hang you out to dry to prove you weren't as good as he was. Luckily, and thankfully, Hangman learned the important lesson about teamwork through Mav, who uniquely understood Hangman's driven personality. Hangman's character development was a very well done part of the movie too.
In an early script, Hangman was to be Ice's son. I'm glad they scrapped that.
Val Kilmer, of course, had been fighting throat cancer in real life, but it was important to have him in this movie and he wanted to be there. His voice in the scenes was a programmed synthesized voice, but it was perfectly his voice as it might be. It was so good to see them as such close friends, and to know that Ice had constantly been Mav's guardian angel, keeping him in the service no matter what Mav did to get himself dismissed. And it showed a lot of how well Ice really understood Mav, and explains a lot of Mav's behaviors in the early movie.
Mav is basically suicidally depressed when the movie starts, but he's not the suicidal type, so he looks for situations where he can go out doing what he does best, but he fights to survive anyway because that is his nature. Ignoring how he feels he focuses on something else that he can control: flying. All Mav has is the service. He has no family. Even Goose's family he's not close to, though we only learn why as the movie advances. The Navy and the people he works with, best shown in Hondo, are the only family he has. So he pushes beyond Mach 10 because he's going to be booted from the poject and he'll lose the team/family he's been working with and, knowing as he does that Ice has been fighting cancer, he is aware that his long-term guardian angel might not be able to keep him where he wants and needs to be. His time is running out, and he's well aware of that, so if he stays in pure Maverick mode and pushes juuust a bit more, and a bit more again, then maybe he can go out doing what he loves before that is taken away from him too. So he does. But he survives. And his guardian angel is still able to shift him back to someplace he needs to be. And, whether this was Ice's grand plan knowing who all from Pete's history was there or not, Mav ends up where he needs to be to reestablish a will to live beyond the military. Reestablishment of his old family with Rooster. Rediscovery and, much more importantly, a new appreciation of an old flame. And suddenly Mav has every reason to not die in the cockpit. So, of course, he must go and do something that could very easily make him die in the cockpit.
In a Hollyweird full of shallow and dull movies and shows with shallow, poorly done scripts and no actual thought behind them and shallow, unrealistic characters who only change in shallow ways if at all, a movie of this great depth made me so happy to see. I can watch it again and again and love it still. So very well done.
In junior high our classmate's dad was a fighter jet pilot and came in on career day to talk to us. If you eject you blood vessels in your eyes are going to pop and he said if don't brace yourself your limbs will get ripped off.
2:31 incorrect, that’s not a Raptor. That’s the F-35C Lightning II. The F-22 Raptor is an Air Force jet only. The F-35 has 3 variants, F-35A (Air Force), F-35B (Marines), and F-35C (Navy) 😊
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Those aren’t either F-22’s F-16’s or F-35’s. They are F/A-18 Super Hornets.
He was able to stay alive because I was told by test pilots that experimental planes like that have an enclosed cockpit that stays intact when the plane breaks up keeping the pilot safe inside the capsule. Then it parachutes down.
Val Kilmer does have throat cancer. His son helped dub his speech for the movie
9:39 Flight in aircraft of extreme speed capabilities are often considered with ejection capsules in mind, so the pilots don't die instantly upon contact (at this point we could consider it a "collision") with the outside air.
The ejection capsule concept came to be as early as on the experimental Bell X-2, capable of mach 3. For reference, the X-1 was the very first craft to successfully break the sound barrier.
If you watch Mav's last movement before it blew up, he did a snap role to get inverted so he could eject
In real life he would’ve died instantly ejecting at Mach 10, because of the 7,672mph winds hitting him and tearing his body to shreds. Supersonic wind is enough to kill you, so imagine what high-hypersonic would do. Unless he ejected inside of a protected capsule connected to the plane. Which I’m assuming he did :)
When everything goes wrong he’s obviously not going that fast lol, the engines probably gives out and then it keeps slowing down and he probably ejected at a safe pace
@@novaclan8542 but it doesn’t show him slowing down. It only shows him ejecting immediately at Mach 10.2
@@Soundtracks92 does he eject? We don’t see it
In this hypothetical reality it would definitely be a pod style cockpit ejection,
It’s actually not clear if it would be totally unsurvivable. An SR71 pilot survived the breakup of his plane at mach3+ at 80,000+ft. While the speed is massive the atmosphere is very thin so aerodynamic forces on the pilot weren’t enough to kill him.
An ejection system (cockpit ejects with pilot) that protects the pilot at speed and altitude would have likely been one of the requirements of the prototype plane he was flying.
So I put his survival as plausible.
Add "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" for fun😂😂😂
The footage here was real -- the close-up cockpit shots were taken during real in-flight sequences. This meant that most of the cast of pilots had to actually undergo extensive G-force training sessions to withstand the physical demands of G-force pressures during flights. They also had to film themselves from the cockpits (and adjust their own lighting, makeup, and sound!). Cruise himself designed an aviation course for those playing the pilots that took place over 3 months so they could handle their time in the F-18s.
Miles Teller is probably most famous for playing the drummer in the movie "Whiplash." Val Kilmer's speech was dubbed by another actor for him.
The movie is dedicated to director Tony Scott, who was the director of the first Top Gun. Tony sadly died by suicide in 2012. His brother is Ridley Scott, who still survives and directs films.
Correction - Val Kilmer speech was dubbed by his own son
@@CoffeeMatt10 Thank you, I didn't know it was his son! That's incredibly moving.
F22 is Air Force. The Navy flies F35’s. Technically the F35 is the joint strike fighter so the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps all fly the F35. Tom Cruise is 60
The "5th Generation Fighter" is based off of the Su-57 "Felon" Russia's attempt at an answer to the F-22A Raptor.
The joystick and the snapping, so entertaining. I could totally tell you were really into it. I have to look up some of your other content.
Penny Benjamin was mentioned in the first movie. She’s the Admirals daughter
i see this movie around 30 times and every time .... puts me in the emocional mode
Tom Cruise didn’t actually fly the F18. They were in real F18s for the cockpit shots but none of the cast actually got to fly them. He did however fly the plane at the end which is his own plane. And yes this movie was insane in DBox 😂
Justin’s noises when he hears shooting/flying is my absolute favorite part of this whole video 😂❤
SR72 is Mach 6+. Orbit is Mach 20. Gen 5 planes have software-controlled emergency maneuvers. Gen 6 has a manned mother ship, the rest of the flight are AI drones in wireless network.
The plane in the end is Tom's plane. All the actors had to take flying lessons.
Absolutely dying laughing at you guys defining “goosing”!!! 😂😂
22:50 it’s not so much that it’s not a priority, it’s that it’s those few pilots’ lives vs millions of lives (sacrifice the few to save the many), mission success is the top priority, getting home is the bonus. Cyclone is the one who has to task those men and women to do these types of missions, he almost has to detach and desensitise himself from the mission and the man in order to make these decisions. So as callous as he sounds here, he does care and wants them to come home, it’s just that he has accepted that some of them, maybe none of them, may come back. As he says “every mission has its risks.”
53:44 Easter egg to the original Top Gun: when he’s in the classroom and Charlie makes a suggestion to him, he makes a counter - “if I reverse on a hard cross, I can immediately go to guns on him” - here he is, reversing on a hard cross and immediately going to guns on him.
Just to clarify, it’s the F-35 Lightning, not the F-22 Raptor, and the reason they didn’t use it is because they couldn’t film the cast in it, so they came up with an excuse (GPS jamming) to rule it out as an option and use the F-18 instead. The F-18 has a 2 seat version, which allowed them to film the cast in the backseat… they couldn’t fly the planes themselves, Cruise even asked if he could be trained and was told no, as civilians are not permitted to fly military aircraft, so they had Navy pilots in the front seat while the cast sat in the backseat. Cruise wanted as much authenticity as they could get, and that was the compromise… they still got to “fly” in the jets and experience G forces for real while acting.
The final act where Mav and Rooster steal an F-14 - when Rooster says “how are we gonna get this museum piece in the air?”, it’s very appropriate as the ground scenes were filmed using an actual F-14 that they shipped out to location from San Diego Air and Space Museum, so it is in fact a museum piece.
All the aerial footage is CGI. The US no longer has active F-14s (only Iran has, amazingly), nor do they have access to the “5th Gen fighter” (aka the Russian Su-57), so the whole sequence is CGI. They did get former F-14 pilots and mechanics in as advisors to help portray the most accurate performance of the F-14… and boy did they do a great job, showing the big girl has some tricks up her sleeve. In reality those wouldn’t be enough against a 5th gen fighter, but this movie is “a love letter to aviation”, and they made sure to show that “it’s not the plane, it’s the pilot”.
Easter eggs in the bar scene - when we are introduced to Penny, the song in the background is “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie, who starred opposite Jennifer Connolly (Penny) in Labyrinth.
- When Hangman selects a song from the jukebox, he presses 86… the original Top Gun released in 1986. Also, song 86 is “Slow Ride” by Foghat, and while it plays, Hangman teases Rooster about his slow flying style (ie Rooster is a slow rider).
- Miles Teller (Rooster) learned to play “Great Balls Of Fire” on the piano for the scene. The scene was shot as a live take. His version was put on the OST, and there is an edited music video for it, so Teller has an official cover of “Great Balls…” to his credit.
21:20 Can't have "eyes guy" since he is sitting in that seat 😋 (Also I believe you can fly F18 only with right hand joystick so he can't touch the canopy with right hand while turning, but he does it, maybe he is so good)
Yup worth the wait :). Please think about adding a Justin!!! counter :D Best wishes to you both
This blew my mind in IMAX 3D. Peak Cinema!😙👌🏿
Agreed
After the movie... Everyone stayed and talked about the movie for a few minutes
That propeller plane at the end is a P51 Mustang which was used in World War II.
Air density at the altitude where the hypersonic jets would fly is significantly thinner than down low where modern fighters typically fly. With such a significant decrease in air density, flying mach 10 at that altitude and ejecting is basically the same as ejecting at much lower speeds down lower where the air density is thicker.
More that luckily the cockpit ejects. There are several planes that eject the cockpit. F-111 Aardvark, B-1 Lancer , and the Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III. FYI, Val Kilmer's son doubt in ICE-Man's voice for the movie.
The reason why they didn’t do the F22 Raptors is because those planes are under the US Air Force. The Navy has no right to access them.
That and they're absolutely not configured to be stored, take off from, or land on carriers. Professor Jerome Rigg has little jurisdiction here.
Kind of surprised with your knowledge you missed the Skunk Works logo on the tail and stick of the plane Maverick was testing.
There are some good youtube videos with the actors talking about making this movie. They are pretty good. A few of them ended up getting their pilots license. The other funny conversation was when they talked about making the football scene.
He can eject at Mach 10 inside an ejection capsule, just like the B-58
I was thinking the same. But the capsule would have to be able to survive in Mach 10 for a split second and then it would decelerate quite fast. Not sure if that sudden deceleration would be survivable either.
That rope thingy is called an arresting cable. The deck of a carrier is short. You need the arresting cable to bring the aircraft to a quick stop.
Val Kilmer had throat cancer, which was so sad. He was one of the best actors of my generation. You should see him as Doc Holliday in "Tombstone," Jim Morrison in "The Doors," or Chris Knight in "Real Genius." He is a phenomenal method actor who attended the prestigious "Julliard School of Arts."
This actress is Jennifer Connelly her character's name is Penny Benjamin. Penny Benjamin is the daughter of an Admiral and in the original Top Gun she was not in. She was only mentioned in passing and not by name as the Admiral's daughter that Maverick got in trouble for when he did a flyby of her.
Can we just acknowledge that it wasn't just tom that did the plane stunts. They all had to go through rigorous training & were actually flying as well.
12:10 There are multiple states in the U.S that doesn't require a helmet to ride a motorcycle. Each state has different ways to qualify to ride without a helmet. In my home state you need to be at least 21 years old and have a minimum of 1 year driving experience with a license. Anyone under 21 and just has a permit must wear the helmet.
None of them flew the jets they were in 2 seaters.
Tom Cruise did fly a fighter in this movie...
@sinenomis the prop plane at the end was his an him flying however the fighter jets he was not flying
@@willhoppe600 exactly, and that plane is a P51 mustang wich is(was) a Fighter
@sinenomis right sorry. My brain put jet in there for some reason. Lol
F-16 is an Air Force planes. F-14 is what he flew in original movie.
I was 11 years old when I saw the first Top Gun in theaters. Then in 2022 I took my kids to see this movie. It was amazing in theaters with the surround sound and the visuals that have greatly improved since the first film
39:49 Tom Cruise was never flying alone in an F-18. They use the two seat F-18 to film all the actual flying scenes so the pilot in the front seat is doing all the flying and the actors are riding in the back with the cameras.
A modified Albatros L-39 airplane from Aero Vodochody, Czech Republic 🇨🇿 was used during the filming of the air battles ...
They mentioned Penny In the first movie . U were talking to each other and missed it. Penny was the admirals daughter who Maverick took on a joyride in a F14 from what I recall .. he spoke about it quickly in Too Gun . The actress who plays Charlie in the first film is about 70 yrs old right now . They didn’t even consider her in the script and didn’t write I. Her character . Created Penny ( who was mentioned in the first film) I adore you two . ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bro said "madm'n" when jon hamm showed up 😂
If I'm not mistaken, the P51 Mav and Penny fly off in is actually Tom Cruises actual plane that he owns and flies
The reason they didn't use F-35s is because they only have one seat and they needed 2-seaters to film. The actors were in the back seat with Navy pilots flying the planes.
About the age of the son:
My guess is, the years passed are not a one-to-one with real life. There's no specific reference to what year we're in here, and there's no reference to a specific foreign enemy...
I would guess we're just meant to know quite a few years have passed.
F-35 is what you're thinking about.. not F-22
The MAch 10 plane is basically 2nd gen SR-72 Blackbird (SR-71 was the original with estimated top speed of Mach 7.2 (classified so this is educated guess)
Opening aircraft carrier sequence were F-35 Lightning II's and F/A-18 Superhornets. Not F-22 Raptors. The F-22 Rapter is Air force, not Navy. Also, neither Tom Cruise nor any of the other actors were actually flying the jets. The actors were in the back seat of the F model Superhornets with an HD wide angle camera mounted on the dash and facing them. So it only looked like they were flying the jets. Real Navy Superhornet fighter pilots were in the front seat flying the planes. That's why it looks so real. Because, in a way, it was real. The actors were up there, with Navy pilots "yankin and bankin" the jets. But in the closing sequence the older propeller driven plane that Rooster and Maverick are working on together is actually one of Tom Cruise's personally owned aircraft. It's a P-51D Mustang. A very old fighter aircraft, left over from World War 2. The best bomber escort of World War 2. And Tom Cruise (Maverick) is actually flying that and taking Jennifer Connelly (Penny Benjamen) for a ride.
Those high velocity jets have ejection capsules similar to the cockpits on Grand Prix race cars that break away and protect a driver in a crash. This plane uses a version of that tech.
The plan at the end of the movie is a P-51 mustang arguably one of the greatest planes ever made for its time period and is one of the reasons why we won World War 2, it’s also Tom Cruises personal plane
Bob is played by Lewis Pullman, son of actor Bill Pullman, think the president in “Independence Day”
We didn't SEE Penny in the original Top Gun, we heard the reference to Penny Benjimen - the Admiral's daughter he was busted for.............
Ok, so real quick… it is possible to eject at high speeds, it’s high altitudes that can get you killed easily because of the lack of oxygen. People survived the SR-71 disintegrating around them at ~ Mach 3.2 or so. It’s well know they can go faster, but the real number is not disclosed.
The speed of sound, aka Mach, varies. It is not a set number. It depends on the altitude, barometric pressure, humidity, basically the weather in general. That’s because the density of the air determines how fast a sound wave can travel through it.
The F-22 is not the aircraft at the beginning on the carrier. The F-22 is an Air Force only aircraft. It couldn’t handle the abuse of repeated carrier landings and/or launching by catapult. This was by design to be lighter, more agile, and carry more ordnance.
The planes on the carrier were the F/A-18, which comes in many variants, but is almost exclusively used by the Navy. It replaced the F-14 from the first movie right around the time the movie was made. That’s because the role for the aircraft changed. The F-14 was meant to intercept enemy bombers and planes at a long distance. They were supposed to go fast and far, then lock on to those aircraft, and fire phoenix missiles at them and which also had serious speed and legs for the day. The F/A-18 has many rolls, from signals intelligence (sigint), aerial refueling in some instances, bomber, and fighter. I believe there’s others but I can’t recall them right now. It is a way slower, less powerful, but more able aircraft than the F-14. The radar is better, and the AIM-9 AMRAAM missile is more capable than the Phoenix in many ways, but the warhead is smaller and does way less damage. This is the current primary long range “stick” they have, but they are developing some that ~double the range and warhead capabilities. These will all working in the next aircraft too.
The F-35 is the other aircraft on the carrier. It wasn’t used in the movie to help protect the technology, abilities, and tactics. The F-35 is unique in that it is being used by all branches on the military. There are currently three variants. The F-35A goes to the Air Force, the wings are a bit smaller and sleeker as it doesn’t need the additional lift to get off a carrier deck at slower speeds. It is the fastest of the three. The F-35B goes to the Marines. Because they have smaller carriers, they historically used either helicopters and V/STOL (vertical/short take off and landing) aircraft. This was traditionally the roll filled by the Harrier Jump Jet AV-8 (A, B, and C variants). The AV-8 redirected its thrust to take off and land this way, but was very difficult to master. The F-35B also redirects thrust, but also has a little party trick. Just behind the canopy a door opens on the top and bottom of the aircraft’s fuselage. Inside that space is a “fan” that is ran by the main engine. The rear nozzle, which normally directs its thrust straight out the back swivels down and now directs it downward. So, you’ve got upward thrust in the front and rear of the aircraft. The computer handles a bit part of the balancing roll that pilots use to do themselves, making it way more stable and safer to use. Then, once airborne, the nozzle starts to rotate back to the normal position which makes the aircraft start to move faster and faster forward. Eventually theirs enough forward movement to generate enough lift to no longer need the fan up front. So, it closes and the pilot flys the aircraft as usual. All that extra weight makes the “B” variant slower, less efficient, more expensive, and unable to lift the same payload. But, man does it look cool doing it!
The F-35C is the Navy version. It has a larger wing area for more lift at lower speeds to help take off from a carrier deck. This makes the “C” also a bit slower, less efficient, but capable of lifting more.
I believe we export all three variants to our allies, whereas the F-22 was actually made illegal to export to anyone, regardless of their relationship to us.
The military tried this “jack of all trades” technique before, but you usually end up with the “jack of all trades, master of none” situation, and nobody wants that. The F-4 was flown by the Navy and Air Force. Arguably one of the sexiest looking aircraft ever by the way. Both branches made drastic changes to it to fit their requirements. The F-15 was considered to be used like this, but the Navy rejected it and went with the F-14 instead. The F-111 also was going to have this approach as well, but the Navy wasn’t sold on “swing wing” at that point, only to ironically go with the F-14 a bit later. The F-14A was notorious for being bad about “flame outs”. The “A’s” engines were a decent amount faster at top speed, but slower to accelerate. Those reasons forced an engine change that showed up in the “B” variant. The engines in that version were more reliable, had better acceleration, but less top speed. This was considered acceptable as the accuracy and range of the missiles has increased. So, what the planes lacked the legs to do, the missiles had.
Sorry for the rant. I’m no expert of these things by a long shot, so don’t think I’m claiming to be. I did have an uncle that was a “Naval Aviator”, and as a kid he knew I wanted to fly. So, probably breaking a lot of rules in the process, he would send me manuals and documentation on the aircraft used by all US branches. Being born in 72, I to read about a lot of the historic aircraft. He sent me that stuff until he retired in the mid 80’s. I used to do book reports on them in school. I even had teachers give me bad grades saying my information was wrong or unverifiable. Imagine their surprise when I’d bring the book in to show them! A history teacher of mine in the 8th grade was shocked to see what I had a copy of (it was about the SR-71, originally called the RS-71 by the way, but President Johnson said it wrong during an address on TV so they changed the name instead of correcting him). He was ex-Air Force and was super pissed that I had that. I explained to him how I got it, but did not mention a name. Two days later I got an A+ on my paper. Anyway, I knew from the age of ~ 5 I was going to be in the Air Force, I never considered anything else. Then at 18, just before graduation, I became a type 1 diabetic. That screwed me out of any military service and any chance of ever having a pilots license. But, because I’ve always loved the subject, it’s something I still read about on at least a weekly basis.
I saw this movie with my whole family in theaters, my father has and still builds the F4-14 engine which is the engine that in the FA-18 super hornet, which means that these planes have the engines that my father most likely built and inspected
Jennifer Connelly is a well known actress and she is married to Paul Bettany from the Marvel movies and he was in my favorite HEATH LEDGER movie "A knights tale". Another must watch movie.
They don’t lose the contract. They net the contract
Awesome reaction! For the record, Mach 10 is equal to 7672.691 MPH. Just noticed your guess was 700 something MPH.
Not the same woman, , the Admiral's, daughter, 6 fly bus on towers and on one on the Admiral's daughter, got Maverick demoted again..😂❤
The plane used at end and in first movie are F14 Tomcats. The F16 Viper is used in IRON EAGLE movies which you should also Check out at least 1 and 2 also from 86
A great movie with a great cast is STEALTH. It deals with what happens with an AI drone fighter. Awesome special effects. Including the biggest explosion ever caught on film and can be seen from space.
GPS jamming prevented Raptors from being used. They are dependent on GPS//another indicator why drones will never be the only aircraft we have.
@10:00 yes you're correct the movie should end here lol
@10:17 I am not an expert in this at all, however, I've read commentary by some military pilots which stated that ejection approaching Mach 3 would result in all your extremities being broken if not even being ripped off. Apparently some ejection seats had straps that would automatically cinch in your arms and legs to prevent them from flailing around and being injured at high speeds. The SR-71 Blackbird (which I think could get up somewhere around Mach 5 or 6??) supposedly had a little titanium bathtub-like capsule around the pilot that would eject with the pilot to help protect them. I don't believe anyone ever actually ejected from one though. I still find it hard to imagine anyone could eject from anything at Mach 10 and survive let alone avoid severe injuries.
@27:55 is butt fingering gonna be a thing on this channel now??
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