When this came out, I was in high school, and obssessed with fighter jets. My family lived in Virginia Beach, and both my parents were in the Navy. The day after we all went to see the movie, Dad woke me up before dawn, and took me to work with him, at NAS Oceana, the Navy's East Coast Master Jet Base. He sat me down on the back porch of the Air Ops building, (right on the flight line, where the tower is), with a cheap picket camera, 3 rolls of film, and some change for the snack and drink machines. I'm 52 years old now, and to this day, that's one of my favorite memories.
Part of that rivalry between Cruise and Kilmer was the blue ring that Kilmer's character flashes at the initial briefing (the ring, not the pen, is the point of Kilmer's gesture). Cruise's character doesn't have one of those rings. It's from the US Naval Academy.
In the initial flight scene, Jester cheats by going below the "hard deck" (presumably because he's working to spoil Maverick's chances because of the family reputation). Jester is pissy after Maverick defeats him because the cheating attempt failed (kind of)
You guys are great, love your reactions, I love you as people, truly smart & emotional and good people, and I am sure your channel with explode, continue great work. I watched all this movies like 20 times, but with you, it was a pleasure... greets from Croatia
Good thing no one told Hoser Satrapa about that, or Snort Snodgrass. Hoser had a habit of going up and down the california coast while supersonic, and Snort flew more hours in the F-14 than any other pilot alive outside the Iranian F-14's including flying even after he was no longer in a flying job
To explain what happened. The F 14 Tomcat's issue was extra airflow entering the engine ports thar cause a engine stall or jet wash. Maverick and Iceman were flying way to close and when Iceman flew left instead of right caused Maverick to enter a jet wash. The G force pushed Maverick forward to the point he couldn't reach back to pull the ejection cord. The canopy should have blown clear but what stuck hovering above due to thr flat spin. Unfortunately for Goose he ejected straight up and the force broke his neck killing him instantly. The jets today the FA 18 hornet featured in Top gun Maverick the ejection cord is next to the seat. Pilots and RIO will eject sideways to avoid this type of accident. Great reaction
Not quite accurate. The Jetwash cause there to be not enough air in the starboard engine. This caused the engine to stall. And with so much thrust coming from the other engine it cause the plane to enter a flat spin. The rest is pretty accurate. The accident that took Goose's life is actually based on a REAL accident that happened in the F-14 Tomcat.
Another film from this same time era of F-14 is "The Final Countdown". Kurt Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Katherine Ross, Charles Durning. It has a science-fiction, time-travel element to the story but the star(s) of the movie are the ship USS Nimitz, the squadrons & pilots, and crew. All the flying scenes are the actual pilots and crews. I was a crew member on Nimitz during the filming of the movie and to us sailors it seemed more of a recruitment tool for the Navy. Enlistments did go up significantly after it was shown. Great reaction !!!
Like that movie to this day. In fact, when I joined the Navy years ago I got stationed on an aircraft carrier. The US Constellation CV-64. I miss the old girl. She was decommissioned on August 7, 2003 and broken up for scrap in 2015. 😓
This was filmed largely in my hometown. I remember seeing this in middle school. Every single boy wanted to become a fighter pilot after seeing this. Everybody wanted to got to the Top Gun school at NAS Miramar (now MCAS Miramar, Top Gun school no longer here).
When watching top gun. Maverick, remember the comment in this one when he talks about the general's daughter. Plays a role in the next one that a lot of people Miss.
I went to Washington D.C. on school trip when I was little. We were in a line waiting to get into one of the places there (I don't remember which), and a group of 5-6 guys ahead of us in the line started singing that "lost the loving feeling " song to a female police officer that was walking nearby. It was great.
The F-14 jet has two turbofan engines, each with a compressor fan that can stall due to disturbed airflow, leading to engine flameouts. Early F-14 models were prone to these stalls due to design flaws. Maverick's F-14 experiences a believable engine flameout and subsequent flat spin due to differential thrust and disturbed airflow caused by the jet wash of Iceman's F-14, resulting in an unrecoverable spin. This scenario reflects real-life concerns of F-14 pilots.
@@Reactsandgamesto piggyback off of George it was one of the reasons for the F-14s retirement as a service plane, that, the fall of soviet union, and the dropped expensive upgrade package to the dubbed “Super Tomcat” in favor of the upgrades from the parallel serving “Legacy Hornet” to the F/A-18 Super Hornet. Were the nails in the coffin for the F-14.
Great reaction! This was a hit in '86. Watched it several times at the theatre. I remember it came back again, playing on two screens at some movie houses. Now you know about Naval Aviation! Cheers!😊
NOT U.S. Soldiers, they are U.S. SAILORS! and yes, in 1985, there was no such thing as green screens, all the flying scenes were filmed IN THE PLANES. YES when a Naval Aviator realizes that he has become a danger to himself or others, they can most certainly turn in his wings and stop flying, BUT he/she still owes the Navy time on their contract, they just wont be flying anymore, fling from the deck of aircraft carriers is a very dangerous business, so if someone decides that he/she can not do it as safely as possible, it is better for the aviator to turn in their wings rather than to have them stripped from them or worse! I spent 8 years of my Navy career on NAS Miramar and I have never once seen an elevator ANYWHERE on the entire base!
Top Gun is one of Cinemas all time greatest movies. I really e joyed watching you both watch this for the first time. Keep up the great work you guys. Confession... Seeing you gus say I love how happy the film is and knowing you were about to watch Goose die, I smiled a little, wager to see your reaction to THAT loss.
They skipped the famous Top Gun intro which is a classic, there with the planes taking off, the Kenny Loggins theme, etc. When you do the Top Gun Maverick reaction, please don't skip the intro and comment what you think.
I remember when this film hit the theaters back in the day. Was not crazy about you saying you didn't want to watch it because you had no interest in planes. However, as you saw, there is MUCH more to this story than the airplanes. Great reaction and was enjoyable to watch you getting very invested in the movie. (As far as them killing Goose. Who could possibly take his place? That is the one thing you will NEVER FORGET. It made the movie work no matter how much we hated it.) 👍
Yeah I have to admit, I can’t believe I slept on this one! Looking forward to watching the sequel! Hated goose dying but I suppose as a plot point it was needed. Would have been nice to see him at the end though with everyone after victory!
With the F-14s they flew at that time, every pilot was paired with what they call a RIO (radar intercept officer). His job was to take care of radar and navigation for the pilot.
You guys are great - I loved your reactions. We ALL mourned Goose - and it's absolutely up there with the saddest movie death ever. Top Gun Maverick is a must. You'll both love it. Cheers from Ontario, Canada! :)
A story: at little brother's wedding reception, glass tinkling was replaced by 'sing a love song.' The ushers, of which I was one, did 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling.'
Trivia time: The 'older guy' that Charlie meets in the bar at the beginning of the movie is the real-life Top Gun 'Viper'. It's Rear Admiral Pete 'Viper' Pettigrew.
Just an FYI in case it hasn't been mentioned yet (and you still read these)... the song "Take My Breath Away" was actually written for this movie and is why you heard its theme through the film. It is a killer soundtrack.
The "hard deck" is an imaginary ground. When in practice they say everything below a certain elevation is off limits. Maverick broke the rules by following Jester below the hard deck in order to get the lock on and "kill" him. Maverick felt like Jester knew Maverick had him beat and so he "ran out of bounds" to keep Maverick from getting the kill on him so he followed him anyhow and THAT is why he got in trouble.
"I wouldn't get him back in a plane that fast" This probably was like a week or so, or even after talking to Navy Mental Health. Also in the American Military, even as we recover mentally and physically from setbacks, we always have to try to improve and press forward. We are monitored along the way, of course, but we have to always be prepared for hardships and how to overcome them.
The "hard deck" is the training analogue for the ground meaning that going below the hard deck counts as crashing into the ground. Also, yeah. The enemies are not any specific country. Bonus fact: They were only allowed to fire one actual missile for filming. So, kudos to the editors and special effects department for making it look like more. The making of content says that they were actually questioned on how many they'd fired, but that it was in fact only one.
Im a Navy Brat. My dad was in the Navy, I was born on a Marine Corp air base. The Marines and the Navy are related. Jet noise is in my blood. Military life isnt for everyone. I loved my childhood, but I had friends and siblings who couldnt handle the stress sometimes. You either become a strong person with thick skin, or you have a psychotic episode. Why? Because you just dont have a choice. Suck it up, Mary Alice!
If you liked this one, you will love the second one. The Navy was very restrictive with the amount of footage they could shoot. Things were very different with Top Gun Maverick, they had much, much more cooperation and involvement from the Navy. With some aircraft like the F-14, they had a pilot and a Radar Intercept Officer who handled the electronics and weapons systems. The real Viper was a tech advisor on the movie and also made an appearance. He was Perry, the date Charlie met at the bar. The F-14 with the original engines had an unfortunate sensitivity to compressor stall. This was fixed with different engines later. Pilots were trained to delay their ejection a moment to allow the canopy to clear. In a flat spin, there was no real slipstream to blow the canopy away, and Goose ejected into it. The mythical Mig 28 was a nod to Russia. (Migs are designated in odd numbers, not even), but Migs are a Russian product, sooooo.....
F14s had a pilot and a Radar Intercept Officer, who managed the sensors. Flying is completely voluntary. However, given the $1-2M spent on his selection and training he would most likely go to an administrative separation board, and be booted out. If he's lucky maybe made a maintenance officer. Top Gun, the USAF equivalent is Weapons School is not competitive in nature. They are intensive enough that most students just want to graduate.
You don't see this in the movie, because the Tomcat's mission largely changed, but the F-14 Tomcat was originally designed to shoot down enemy bombers from very far away to prevent them from getting close enough to the fleet at sea (i.e., the carrier air groups) to launch long-range anti-ship missiles. The Soviets had "Naval Aviation" squadrons that were only "naval" in that their job was to take out naval assets - they launched from and returned to ground bases just like a regular air force. The idea was to send up large numbers of bombers carrying big, long-range missiles and volley-fire them all at a carrier air group, in hopes of taking out as many ships as possible. The Tomcat was conceived to counter this threat, and it did so with its big, long-range radar that could target and track 24 enemy planes simultaneously and fire at 6 of them at a time with the huge AIM-54 Phoenix missile at ranges out to 125 miles. Of course, at these ranges, the Phoenix was only effective against slow-moving, minimally-maneuvering bombers, which is what it was designed for, making the F-14 primarily an Interceptor. This is why the RIO was so important - running that radar and tracking all those targets was a big job and was very manual rather than computerized, so you needed a dedicated operator for it to keep that burden off the pilot. RIOs had no control over the airplane, though - they were passengers who ran the radar and communications as a tight team with the pilot. As the Soviet mass naval bomber threat diminished into the 1980s, the Tomcat's role was modified to be more of an air-to-air fighter, though the radar-guided medium-range missiles it carried (the AIM-7 Sparrow) were not all that great early on and only got somewhat better over the years. The short-range IR "dogfight" missiles (the AIM-9 Sidewinder) was better, and got even better with upgrades, but was limited to short ranges. Today's radar missiles, the AIM-120 AMRAAM is far better than the Sparrow, but the F14 was never upgraded for them before it was retired. The "flat spin" seen in the movie was actually almost exactly what happened in a real incident. Early F14s had problematic engines that stalled easily, and because the engines were so widely spaced on an F-14, if one flamed out, the asymmetric thrust from the other made it very easy to go into a flat spin. This problem was mostly solved between newer models having better engines and improved pilot procedures to recover the aircraft. The F-14 was a large and very complicated aircraft and it was made back when the world's fastest supercomputer weighed many tons and used tons of grid power for processing and cooling, yet was less powerful than today's Apple Watch. The computing power inside the F14 was FAR less powerful, so lots of stuff was still mechanical and/or human-powered.
Regarding the flat spin: in the ejection sequence, the canopy is fired off a half-second before the seats, but it's assuming that the plane has forward momentum and that the canopy will fall behind the plane by the time the seats are shot off. But because the plane was in a flat spin, the canopy remained in the air above the cockpit, and Goose's seat ejected into it, causing his head to impact the canopy at several hundred miles per hour, which would have likely been instantly fatal (brain stem injury). You simply can't account for every single possible failure, and in this case, the ejection system couldn't safely deal with the flat spin - normally a very rare type of failure.
hey guys, here's a few movie suggestions for you......Red Dawn (the 1984 original one), The Patriot, Firefox, We Were Soldiers, Jaws, The Towering Inferno, My Cousin Vinny.....not sure if you've seen these, but there you go! Enjoy!
Saw this when it premiered in theater. Another one of my favorites you guys should react to is The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimtz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz. It's like Top Gun meets Back to the Future.
As far as Cougar quitting... Can he do that? Yes. He might not exactly be able to just drop out of the Navy without his term being served without permission... But you don't send a pilot up in a 30 million dollar fighter when he says he can no longer handle it. If they were to try to force him and somethingvthen happened to hom and or the aircraft... Can you imagine that extraordinary amount of crap that would be on his commander?
After watching top gun maverick, you need to watch the bts from this movie. Because they shooting it majority of scenes in the real fighter jet. All the actors siting in the real jet and experience real g-force. P.s sorry for my english:)
Actually, radar-lock is much more than that. In the high-maneuvering environs of dogfighting, missiles need a lot of information on where the enemy (bogey) is, how fast they are going, and other such information, in order to be able to come up with a "firing solution" to shoot down the enemy. All modern fighter aircraft have what is known as a targeting radar. This radar collects the required information, processes it, and transfers the "solution" to the targeting system on the missile. Once the radar enters the solution on the bogey, the missile can now "lock-on" (Achieve radar-lock), meaning that the missile can stay targeted, no matter what the bogey does to try and evade the missile. All that remains for the pilot to do is pull the trigger.
There is no such thing as a "trophy". It's a military school, not a Gymnastics Academy... and there is no MIG-28, but MIG-29. They made it 28 to avoid a real life diplomatic incident. The "Hard Deck" below and above, are like the floor and celling, in a simulated situation, like the school has. A RIO is not a Co-Pilot, Co-Pilot flies commercial planes, not fighter jets. RIO means Radar-Intercepting-Officer.
The music that plays the whole way through the opening is copyright hell unfortunately. I love putting in as much footage as possible but have to be careful around the soundtrack
I'VE WATCHED THIS MOVIE FOR 30 YEARS AND NEVER CONNECTED THE "SO YOU'RE THE ONE" TO BEING THAT SHE KNEW ABOUT IT AHEAD OF TIME. I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS MORE LIKE "SO YOU'RE THE JACKASS OF THIS CLASS" TYPE INSTEAD. HOW HAVE I NOT REALIZED THIS? DOES EVERYONE ELSE KNOW?
lol… I think so. When she says “the pentagon makes sure I know more than you” was a clue that she would’ve heard about and reviewed the info on the encounter based on her position.
When this came out, I was in high school, and obssessed with fighter jets. My family lived in Virginia Beach, and both my parents were in the Navy. The day after we all went to see the movie, Dad woke me up before dawn, and took me to work with him, at NAS Oceana, the Navy's East Coast Master Jet Base. He sat me down on the back porch of the Air Ops building, (right on the flight line, where the tower is), with a cheap picket camera, 3 rolls of film, and some change for the snack and drink machines. I'm 52 years old now, and to this day, that's one of my favorite memories.
Really enjoy your authentic reactions.
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The back seater is the Rio (radar intercept officer). He controls the missiles, but doesn't fly the plane.
Part of that rivalry between Cruise and Kilmer was the blue ring that Kilmer's character flashes at the initial briefing (the ring, not the pen, is the point of Kilmer's gesture). Cruise's character doesn't have one of those rings. It's from the US Naval Academy.
In the initial flight scene, Jester cheats by going below the "hard deck" (presumably because he's working to spoil Maverick's chances because of the family reputation). Jester is pissy after Maverick defeats him because the cheating attempt failed (kind of)
"I love how happy this movie is...", having no idea what's she's being set-up for. RIP Goose.
🥲 the happiness was taken away lol
You guys are great, love your reactions, I love you as people, truly smart & emotional and good people, and I am sure your channel with explode, continue great work. I watched all this movies like 20 times, but with you, it was a pleasure... greets from Croatia
Really appreciate your comment! Thank you so much! ❤️
"Goose is my favorite so far though"
Oh baby
That death is still with us😢
The saying is: There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are very few old bold pilots.
Good thing no one told Hoser Satrapa about that, or Snort Snodgrass.
Hoser had a habit of going up and down the california coast while supersonic, and Snort flew more hours in the F-14 than any other pilot alive outside the Iranian F-14's including flying even after he was no longer in a flying job
I still have the soundtrack to the movie on CD and the original movie posters from the 1980s.
To explain what happened. The F 14 Tomcat's issue was extra airflow entering the engine ports thar cause a engine stall or jet wash. Maverick and Iceman were flying way to close and when Iceman flew left instead of right caused Maverick to enter a jet wash. The G force pushed Maverick forward to the point he couldn't reach back to pull the ejection cord. The canopy should have blown clear but what stuck hovering above due to thr flat spin. Unfortunately for Goose he ejected straight up and the force broke his neck killing him instantly. The jets today the FA 18 hornet featured in Top gun Maverick the ejection cord is next to the seat. Pilots and RIO will eject sideways to avoid this type of accident. Great reaction
Appreciate it! Makes sense making those changes to the jets!
Not quite accurate. The Jetwash cause there to be not enough air in the starboard engine. This caused the engine to stall. And with so much thrust coming from the other engine it cause the plane to enter a flat spin. The rest is pretty accurate. The accident that took Goose's life is actually based on a REAL accident that happened in the F-14 Tomcat.
TopGun Maverick is a must
Can’t wait for that!😃
Agreed. At least IMO, it's probably the best sequel to an original I've ever seen.
It's the highway to the danger zone 😂❤😂
Another film from this same time era of F-14 is "The Final Countdown".
Kurt Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Katherine Ross, Charles Durning.
It has a science-fiction, time-travel element to the story but the star(s) of the movie are the ship USS Nimitz, the squadrons & pilots, and crew.
All the flying scenes are the actual pilots and crews.
I was a crew member on Nimitz during the filming of the movie and to us sailors it seemed more of a recruitment tool for the Navy.
Enlistments did go up significantly after it was shown.
Great reaction !!!
Nice! I’ll have a look at it! Thanks for watching!
Like that movie to this day. In fact, when I joined the Navy years ago I got stationed on an aircraft carrier. The US Constellation CV-64. I miss the old girl. She was decommissioned on August 7, 2003 and broken up for scrap in 2015. 😓
This was filmed largely in my hometown. I remember seeing this in middle school. Every single boy wanted to become a fighter pilot after seeing this. Everybody wanted to got to the Top Gun school at NAS Miramar (now MCAS Miramar, Top Gun school no longer here).
My father was in the navy when this movie came out, and I was born the year this movie came out
When watching top gun. Maverick, remember the comment in this one when he talks about the general's daughter. Plays a role in the next one that a lot of people Miss.
Just to clarify…who talks about the general’s daughter? Just so I can go back and check (I like to be prepared 😂)
@@Reactsandgames Meg Ryan talking to Charlie I think. (or maybe it was just her and Goose and Mav) It was brought up by Meg Ryan though.
I went to Washington D.C. on school trip when I was little. We were in a line waiting to get into one of the places there (I don't remember which), and a group of 5-6 guys ahead of us in the line started singing that "lost the loving feeling " song to a female police officer that was walking nearby. It was great.
The F-14 jet has two turbofan engines, each with a compressor fan that can stall due to disturbed airflow, leading to engine flameouts. Early F-14 models were prone to these stalls due to design flaws. Maverick's F-14 experiences a believable engine flameout and subsequent flat spin due to differential thrust and disturbed airflow caused by the jet wash of Iceman's F-14, resulting in an unrecoverable spin. This scenario reflects real-life concerns of F-14 pilots.
That’s crazy! Unrecoverable….so literally eject as soon as possible? Scary situation!
@@Reactsandgamesto piggyback off of George it was one of the reasons for the F-14s retirement as a service plane, that, the fall of soviet union, and the dropped expensive upgrade package to the dubbed “Super Tomcat” in favor of the upgrades from the parallel serving “Legacy Hornet” to the F/A-18 Super Hornet. Were the nails in the coffin for the F-14.
Great reaction! This was a hit in '86. Watched it several times at the theatre. I remember it came back again, playing on two screens at some movie houses. Now you know about Naval Aviation! Cheers!😊
Thanks for watching!😃
Gotta watch the new one! Even better
Will get on it soon for sure! 😀
NOT U.S. Soldiers, they are U.S. SAILORS! and yes, in 1985, there was no such thing as green screens, all the flying scenes were filmed IN THE PLANES. YES when a Naval Aviator realizes that he has become a danger to himself or others, they can most certainly turn in his wings and stop flying, BUT he/she still owes the Navy time on their contract, they just wont be flying anymore, fling from the deck of aircraft carriers is a very dangerous business, so if someone decides that he/she can not do it as safely as possible, it is better for the aviator to turn in their wings rather than to have them stripped from them or worse! I spent 8 years of my Navy career on NAS Miramar and I have never once seen an elevator ANYWHERE on the entire base!
Top Gun is one of Cinemas all time greatest movies. I really e joyed watching you both watch this for the first time. Keep up the great work you guys.
Confession... Seeing you gus say I love how happy the film is and knowing you were about to watch Goose die, I smiled a little, wager to see your reaction to THAT loss.
Thank you so much for watching! ☺️❤️
The "hard deck" is simulated ground level. They set it above actual ground level, as a safety measure.
Looking forward to your Topgun Maverick review
Just found your channel. Loved the reaction. Top Gun is one of my favorites. You’ll love Maverick, they did a great job!
Thank you, it means a lot. Great movie! So hyped for the sequel. Everyone is saying it’s even better so can’t wait to watch it!!😃😃😃
You can not miss watching the sequel to this. MAVERICK !!! As good and in some ways even better!!!
100% agree. Absolutely floored us!
It wasn't their first mission. Pilots spend a lot of time flying before going to Top Gun.
They skipped the famous Top Gun intro which is a classic, there with the planes taking off, the Kenny Loggins theme, etc. When you do the Top Gun Maverick reaction, please don't skip the intro and comment what you think.
Will do. Hopefully I don’t have to mute it but I might have to die to copyright…I’ll see what I can do😎👍🏻
I remember when this film hit the theaters back in the day. Was not crazy about you saying you didn't want to watch it because you had no interest in planes. However, as you saw, there is MUCH more to this story than the airplanes. Great reaction and was enjoyable to watch you getting very invested in the movie. (As far as them killing Goose. Who could possibly take his place? That is the one thing you will NEVER FORGET. It made the movie work no matter how much we hated it.) 👍
Yeah I have to admit, I can’t believe I slept on this one! Looking forward to watching the sequel! Hated goose dying but I suppose as a plot point it was needed. Would have been nice to see him at the end though with everyone after victory!
With the F-14s they flew at that time, every pilot was paired with what they call a RIO (radar intercept officer). His job was to take care of radar and navigation for the pilot.
Thank you for the info! ☺️
You guys are great - I loved your reactions. We ALL mourned Goose - and it's absolutely up there with the saddest movie death ever. Top Gun Maverick is a must. You'll both love it. Cheers from Ontario, Canada! :)
Really appreciate it! Thank you. We are looking forward to watching MAVERICK soon! 😃
And goose dying was horrible ☹️ love him
@@Reactsandgames You're most welcome. Really looking forward to your reaction :). We loved Goose too!
A story: at little brother's wedding reception, glass tinkling was replaced by 'sing a love song.' The ushers, of which I was one, did 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling.'
Epic! Haha!
Trivia time: The 'older guy' that Charlie meets in the bar at the beginning of the movie is the real-life Top Gun 'Viper'. It's Rear Admiral Pete 'Viper' Pettigrew.
That’s awesome!
Just an FYI in case it hasn't been mentioned yet (and you still read these)... the song "Take My Breath Away" was actually written for this movie and is why you heard its theme through the film. It is a killer soundtrack.
I try to interact with every comment😃 it makes sense as it does pop up. ALOT through the film. Was definitely stuck in my head after watching this 😂😂
The "hard deck" is an imaginary ground. When in practice they say everything below a certain elevation is off limits. Maverick broke the rules by following Jester below the hard deck in order to get the lock on and "kill" him. Maverick felt like Jester knew Maverick had him beat and so he "ran out of bounds" to keep Maverick from getting the kill on him so he followed him anyhow and THAT is why he got in trouble.
Thank you for explaining that to us! ☺️
I feel the NEED ! ..THE NEED FOR SPEED !!! 😀
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Nice reaction! I've seen it a few months ago for the 1st time and liked it.. but Top gun Maverik is WAY WAY better. Incredible movie
Awesome! Can’t wait to check it out!
I absolutely love watching you two. You’re perfect together. Fantastic job guys. I just subscribed.
Appreciate it a lot! Thank you!!
The final encounter involving Voodoo 1, 2 and 3 was an actual engagement
F14 has two seats. Pilot in the front and radar intercept officer (RIO) in the back who handles radar, countermeasures, etc
"I wouldn't get him back in a plane that fast"
This probably was like a week or so, or even after talking to Navy Mental Health.
Also in the American Military, even as we recover mentally and physically from setbacks, we always have to try to improve and press forward. We are monitored along the way, of course, but we have to always be prepared for hardships and how to overcome them.
100%. On reflection it was probably exactly what he needed! Too much time and he might never have flown again.
Its Top Gun so Five out of Five!
The "hard deck" is the training analogue for the ground meaning that going below the hard deck counts as crashing into the ground.
Also, yeah. The enemies are not any specific country.
Bonus fact: They were only allowed to fire one actual missile for filming. So, kudos to the editors and special effects department for making it look like more. The making of content says that they were actually questioned on how many they'd fired, but that it was in fact only one.
Im a Navy Brat. My dad was in the Navy, I was born on a Marine Corp air base. The Marines and the Navy are related. Jet noise is in my blood. Military life isnt for everyone. I loved my childhood, but I had friends and siblings who couldnt handle the stress sometimes. You either become a strong person with thick skin, or you have a psychotic episode. Why? Because you just dont have a choice. Suck it up, Mary Alice!
If you liked this one, you will love the second one. The Navy was very restrictive with the amount of footage they could shoot. Things were very different with Top Gun Maverick, they had much, much more cooperation and involvement from the Navy. With some aircraft like the F-14, they had a pilot and a Radar Intercept Officer who handled the electronics and weapons systems. The real Viper was a tech advisor on the movie and also made an appearance. He was Perry, the date Charlie met at the bar. The F-14 with the original engines had an unfortunate sensitivity to compressor stall. This was fixed with different engines later. Pilots were trained to delay their ejection a moment to allow the canopy to clear. In a flat spin, there was no real slipstream to blow the canopy away, and Goose ejected into it. The mythical Mig 28 was a nod to Russia. (Migs are designated in odd numbers, not even), but Migs are a Russian product, sooooo.....
Second one literally floored us. Took what was amazing about the first one and raised it to a whole new level!
My first time seeing you guys..... really enjoyed your reaction and your editing. Well done
Appreciate that thank you! Thanks for watching with us!😃
F14s had a pilot and a Radar Intercept Officer, who managed the sensors.
Flying is completely voluntary. However, given the $1-2M spent on his selection and training he would most likely go to an administrative separation board, and be booted out. If he's lucky maybe made a maintenance officer.
Top Gun, the USAF equivalent is Weapons School is not competitive in nature. They are intensive enough that most students just want to graduate.
You don't see this in the movie, because the Tomcat's mission largely changed, but the F-14 Tomcat was originally designed to shoot down enemy bombers from very far away to prevent them from getting close enough to the fleet at sea (i.e., the carrier air groups) to launch long-range anti-ship missiles. The Soviets had "Naval Aviation" squadrons that were only "naval" in that their job was to take out naval assets - they launched from and returned to ground bases just like a regular air force. The idea was to send up large numbers of bombers carrying big, long-range missiles and volley-fire them all at a carrier air group, in hopes of taking out as many ships as possible. The Tomcat was conceived to counter this threat, and it did so with its big, long-range radar that could target and track 24 enemy planes simultaneously and fire at 6 of them at a time with the huge AIM-54 Phoenix missile at ranges out to 125 miles. Of course, at these ranges, the Phoenix was only effective against slow-moving, minimally-maneuvering bombers, which is what it was designed for, making the F-14 primarily an Interceptor. This is why the RIO was so important - running that radar and tracking all those targets was a big job and was very manual rather than computerized, so you needed a dedicated operator for it to keep that burden off the pilot. RIOs had no control over the airplane, though - they were passengers who ran the radar and communications as a tight team with the pilot.
As the Soviet mass naval bomber threat diminished into the 1980s, the Tomcat's role was modified to be more of an air-to-air fighter, though the radar-guided medium-range missiles it carried (the AIM-7 Sparrow) were not all that great early on and only got somewhat better over the years. The short-range IR "dogfight" missiles (the AIM-9 Sidewinder) was better, and got even better with upgrades, but was limited to short ranges. Today's radar missiles, the AIM-120 AMRAAM is far better than the Sparrow, but the F14 was never upgraded for them before it was retired.
The "flat spin" seen in the movie was actually almost exactly what happened in a real incident. Early F14s had problematic engines that stalled easily, and because the engines were so widely spaced on an F-14, if one flamed out, the asymmetric thrust from the other made it very easy to go into a flat spin. This problem was mostly solved between newer models having better engines and improved pilot procedures to recover the aircraft.
The F-14 was a large and very complicated aircraft and it was made back when the world's fastest supercomputer weighed many tons and used tons of grid power for processing and cooling, yet was less powerful than today's Apple Watch. The computing power inside the F14 was FAR less powerful, so lots of stuff was still mechanical and/or human-powered.
Regarding the flat spin: in the ejection sequence, the canopy is fired off a half-second before the seats, but it's assuming that the plane has forward momentum and that the canopy will fall behind the plane by the time the seats are shot off. But because the plane was in a flat spin, the canopy remained in the air above the cockpit, and Goose's seat ejected into it, causing his head to impact the canopy at several hundred miles per hour, which would have likely been instantly fatal (brain stem injury). You simply can't account for every single possible failure, and in this case, the ejection system couldn't safely deal with the flat spin - normally a very rare type of failure.
So sad!😢
So sad!😢
Loved your reactions, here. _Top Gun: Maverick_ is freaking incredible.
The sequel was sensational!!
The old man with Charlie at the officers club was the real Viper ( Pete Pettigrew LDCR. He was the technical advisor on the movie.
No way! Love that!
The man in the back seat is called a RIO, Radar Intercept Officer. He was responsible for operating the radar systems and communications.
hey guys, here's a few movie suggestions for you......Red Dawn (the 1984 original one), The Patriot, Firefox, We Were Soldiers, Jaws, The Towering Inferno, My Cousin Vinny.....not sure if you've seen these, but there you go! Enjoy!
Saw this when it premiered in theater. Another one of my favorites you guys should react to is The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimtz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz. It's like Top Gun meets Back to the Future.
I think someone mentioned that! Might have to check it out!
It was the number 1 grossing hit of 1986, it musta did something right :)
100%!!
You'll love TOP GUN: MAVERICK
Looking forward to it!
That’s actually the real thing
Don’t fire unless fired upon
Maverick : bullsh**** You can be mine
god bless you both!
Nice guys, cannot wait to see Top Gun Maverick from you ...
Appreciate it! Thank you!
As far as Cougar quitting... Can he do that? Yes. He might not exactly be able to just drop out of the Navy without his term being served without permission... But you don't send a pilot up in a 30 million dollar fighter when he says he can no longer handle it. If they were to try to force him and somethingvthen happened to hom and or the aircraft... Can you imagine that extraordinary amount of crap that would be on his commander?
After watching top gun maverick, you need to watch the bts from this movie. Because they shooting it majority of scenes in the real fighter jet. All the actors siting in the real jet and experience real g-force.
P.s sorry for my english:)
Don’t worry about your English. It translated great👍🏻 that is so cool that they shot the movie from inside real jets. What an experience!😃
please do more movie reactions!
100% will be doing for sure!
Interaction with migs was based on a real life situation between us fighters and Libyan fighters
Thanks!
Dude!! Your generosity is so lovely! Thank you so much again! Appreciate you watching!
@@ReactsandgamesSo I’m from San Diego This movie is the reason why I joined the USMC just cause it wasn’t smart enough to get into the Navy
24:35 I think it’s to instill the confidence…
Radar lock is basically like cocking your gun and being ready to fire.
Actually, radar-lock is much more than that. In the high-maneuvering environs of dogfighting, missiles need a lot of information on where the enemy (bogey) is, how fast they are going, and other such information, in order to be able to come up with a "firing solution" to shoot down the enemy. All modern fighter aircraft have what is known as a targeting radar. This radar collects the required information, processes it, and transfers the "solution" to the targeting system on the missile. Once the radar enters the solution on the bogey, the missile can now "lock-on" (Achieve radar-lock), meaning that the missile can stay targeted, no matter what the bogey does to try and evade the missile. All that remains for the pilot to do is pull the trigger.
Not US soldiers, naval aviators.
Ahhh shit, my bad! I’ll remember that for the 2nd one!
There is no such thing as a "trophy". It's a military school, not a Gymnastics Academy... and there is no MIG-28, but MIG-29. They made it 28 to avoid a real life diplomatic incident. The "Hard Deck" below and above, are like the floor and celling, in a simulated situation, like the school has. A RIO is not a Co-Pilot, Co-Pilot flies commercial planes, not fighter jets. RIO means Radar-Intercepting-Officer.
1980s, Mig 28... definitely Russians. ❤
Great content!
Thank you!
@20:37 ...the timing...Oh no...
Oh god I know😂 then we go and lose goose 😔
Liam. My guess is Russia
Hi and how are you doing? I hope you are well! :)
Hey! Very well thank you! Hope you have a great day!😃
If you think this movie was good.....................Just wait for the next one.
Can’t wait for it! Hopefully watching it soon!
How many aircraft carriers does the Army have?
No clue lol
If you have not seen or reacted to the next "TOP Gun" you need to watch "MAVERICK". It is as good or even better than this one.
We have just watched it! It’s on our patreon and coming to RUclips very soon! It was absolutely awesome!! We LOVED it!!
Hello
As much of a classic as this movie is, Top Gun Maverick is actually better.
Maverick was awesome!! 🤩
Why you skip the intro
The music that plays the whole way through the opening is copyright hell unfortunately. I love putting in as much footage as possible but have to be careful around the soundtrack
I'VE WATCHED THIS MOVIE FOR 30 YEARS AND NEVER CONNECTED THE "SO YOU'RE THE ONE" TO BEING THAT SHE KNEW ABOUT IT AHEAD OF TIME.
I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS MORE LIKE "SO YOU'RE THE JACKASS OF THIS CLASS" TYPE INSTEAD.
HOW HAVE I NOT REALIZED THIS?
DOES EVERYONE ELSE KNOW?
lol… I think so. When she says “the pentagon makes sure I know more than you” was a clue that she would’ve heard about and reviewed the info on the encounter based on her position.
a bit of feedback...enjoyed the reaction...but listening to asking questions that the other doesnt know gets frustrating
Fair point. I’ll take it on board👍🏻
Advice. If you're going to talk, stop the movie. And don't cut the flight scenes, that's the movie
lol no. It’s a reaction. We added flight scenes but you can only put so much footage in due to copyright.
This movie is the highway to the danger zone. It will take your breath away although playing with the boys was kinda gay😂❤😂
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The whole movie is super gay. Probkem?
@@incredibleadventures1027 sounds like the both of you are hiding in the closet projecting your own desires.