Kelly McGillis got the lead since she had done a few movies before this. In comparison, Meg Ryan was still a relatively unknown actress at this time. But Meg does a great job going from happy wife to grieving widow.
Being in the military and having a loving wife and child, especially if you ever talked about them, was the biggest hint that someone was not going to make it to the end of a 1980s movie.
@@fannybuster US Navy ranks are different from Army/Air Force/Marines. Navy goes: Ensign, Lt Junior Grade, Lt., Lt. Commander, Commander, Captain. While the other three branches have Second Lt, First Lt, Capt, Major, Lt. Colonel, Colonel. So a Navy full Lieutenant wears 2 bars and is the equivalent of a Capt in the other 3 branches while in the Navy a “Captain” wears a gold Eagle insignia and is equivalent to a full Colonel in the other branches. Maverick is a full Lt. in the Navy so wears 2 bars. Goose is a Lt. (Junior grade) so wears one bar.
The aircraft in this movie was the F-14 Tomcat, one of the most legendary fighter jets in the history of aviation. The early models that they flew were prone to compressor stalls, which in extreme cases, could result in flat spins. Goose's death was based off of a real accident... the canopy is supposed to get jettisoned away from the aircraft when they eject, but in a flat spin it was found that it actually has a tendency to sort of hover right over the top of the aircraft, which is why Goose hit it. Procedures were changed in the cases of flat spins to where the pilot and RIO would have to manually jettison the canopy before ejecting to avoid this. But the Tomcat was a great aircraft... it was retired from service in 2007 (more so because of politics than anything else, unfortunately).
@@sledgehammerk35 they used the excuse that they didn’t want the parts to fall into Iran’s hands. My cousin flew F-14’s until they were retired. He’s still pretty bitter about their fate and the Super Tomcat getting rejected.
@@audiodude74 that seems to be the consensus from what I’ve heard from the Tomcat community. Have also heard that the Hornet mafia cooked the books to make it seem like the Hornet was better in every aspect. It’s a tragedy we didn’t get the Super Tomcat 21 program.
1:17 "This movie is gonna make us all wanna be pilots, isn't it?" Funny you said that because it already did. When this movie came out the Navy reportedly saw an increase of a massive 500% in applications the year following the love letter to Naval aviation.
R.I.P. F-14 Tomcat, unfairly retired in 2006 due to military budget cuts. Grumman's planned F-14 Super Tomcat 21 would have been a beautiful fighter jet, rivaling the Air Force 's F-15 Strike Eagle, if only it hadn't been cancelled by the Navy.
This is my dad's favorite movie and the first Tom Cruise movie I saw on VHS! It was a box office success making $360 million dollars ($798-800 million dollars today) against a $15 million dollar budget. It took home the Oscar for Best Original Song.
"I had the shot, there was no danger Soni took it." The phrase used in my family every time we pulled a hilarious prank or used a quick witted joke lol
The term “MiG" stands for Mikoyan-Gurevich, the aerospace manufacturing company that was the main supplier of fighter jets for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
The other major Soviet aerospace manufacturing company is Sukhoi. The MiG in Top Gun is a ficticious MiG-28, doesn't exist in real life. They used American F-5's painted in foreign colors to depict them as the enemy. In video games based off the movie, the "MiG-28s" were replaced with real MiG-29 Fulcrums. Sukhoi aircraft get designated Su-XX , like the Su-27 Flanker.
@@charminbaer2323 Yes, I know. Mikoyan Gurevich didn't use even numbers on their planes, and the actual state of the art MiG at the time Top Gun came out was the MiG-31 Foxhound. Since the end of the Cold War, Sukhoi has pretty much surpassed Mikoyan when it comes to fighter development.
@@charminbaer2323 Then at the beginning of the Top Gun classes they mention they'll be using F-5s and A-4s to simulate the enemy aircraft. The "aggressor" aircraft shown in the movie are all A-4s though, with F-5s playing the fictional MiG-28s.
this film did alot for me becoming a pilot myself, my dad is a pilot too and we have our own WWII era fighter-trainer that we do airshow demonstrations in. Its an amazing life and alot of hard work that pays off well
The military will rent just about anything to the movie industry if the script makes the military look good. The consider it a recruitment tool. Sounds like it works.
The fictional MiG-28 in Top Gun is actually a Northrop F-5 Tiger II, formerly an attack fighter for the US Navy, but is now used by the Navy as an adversary fighter during training exercises.
The F-5 was never a Navy Attack jet. The little A-4s that Viper and Jester were flown between 1955 and 2003. The did attack, airborne tanker, Electronic Warfare, Forward Air Control, Fleet Support,Advance Jet Training,Light Fleet Defense and of course Dissimilar Air Combat Training standing in for MiG-17s. The F-5 was never a frontline USN or USAF aircraft. The US Navy and USMC fly them as MiG-21/23 simulators out of MCAS Yuma, NAS Key West, NAS New Orleans and NAS Fallon.
Mav went into Ice's jetwash, an area which had no oxygen left because the engines had used it up. This caused Mav's engines to stall and he couldn't recover. The odd colour in the water is emergency marker dye used to show the rescue helicopter where to find them.
Hey liv . Love this movie, i remember my big brother woke me up at midnight aged 7 when my folks were asleep, to watch this movie, a surprise with sweets popcorn and coke . ( best big brother). I think tom was 26 . It was 1986 but he had been making movies since 82 .
Tom Cruise was only 23 years old when Top Gun was filmed in 1985. He was only 20 years old when he starred in his first lead role in Risky Business three years earlier.
I've known a lot of fighter pilots and each and every one thought they were the very best. You need to think so, if you hope to survive. By the way, to answer how these pilots can do what they do, the US spends roughly $5-$11 million in training for each of them.
when Goose hits the canopy,he likely broke his neck( and a possible brain hemmorage too). normally,the canopy would have blown away, but they were in a flat spin and the space directly above the jet would almost be in a vacuum.that's why the canopy didn't move on ejection.
When the ejection handle was pulled the canopy cover above them came off and when the pilots followed Goose's head hit the inside of the canopy. The impact is what killed him. 👱♀️👗👠👠💓
I’ve always thought Wolfman called Viper to let him know Maverick quit, and he did quit temporarily, his locker was cleaned out. But then since we get a cut to Charlie looking for him, I’ve always thought maybe Viper knew that they were dating and decided to send Charlie after him to talk him down. Also part of Charlie’s promotion allowed her to pick her position and post, so she took her boss’ old job once she found out Maverick was going back to Top Gun to be an instructor.
In actuality they could have had an open relationship since she was a civilian. it would have been a whole diffrent story had she been another officer (which is what the producers actually intended for her to be) or worse enlisted.
@@CDRhammond you’re right, they could have. But Charlie tells Maverick in the book before they sleep together that she doesn’t want anyone on the base to know know about them; probably because she’s the teacher and he’s the student. They got caught by Viper flirting in the hallway though.
1. An old shipmate of mine was on the Enterprise when they filmed this. 2. Gooses death was not Maverick's fault. Iceman was bogarting his LOS approach and they got caught in the jet wash. 3. I spent 24 years in the US Navy. 6 on "bird farms" (Carriers). I have seen 1000+ launches and landings without a single crash. These men and the men working the flat tops are doing the most dangerous job in the world (for the good guys). Shout out😎 4. Kelly McGillis/Charlie was in a little-known movie with Harrison Ford "Witness" that's seriously worth a first time/share HINT HINT 5. Tom Skerritt/Viper not only played Dallas in "Alien" he also played Strawberry in "Up in Smoke" with Cheech and Chong. 6. Val Kilmer/Iceman has a long list of movies including but not limited to: "Willow", "The Doors" and "Tombstone" 7. The officer(Goose) is the RIO (Radar Intercept Officer) radar, communications and navigation. 8. Onboard the ship the Squadron leader would not be smoking a cigar in that operation space. 9. Meg Ryan is my honey. A great overlooked movie with her is with Tom Hanks called "Joe vs the Volcano' She plays 3 parts. HINT HINT 10. Onboard the ship/aircraft all the perspiration is Hollywood(not the pilot). There is AC onboard. 11. The TOP GUN school is no longer located at Miramar near San Diego. It's now at NAS Fallon, NV. 12. In 1991 I was stationed on the USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) and they made a movie onboard called "Flight of the Intruder". It was seriously cool. Brad Johnson, Willem DeFoe and Danny Glover. I'm actually in it for a very brief period of time. HINT HINT. You will be the first. 13. Watching/sharing the new "Top Gun Maverick" is a must. The ariel work in that movie makes this one seem like they were practicing. Better yet it has a plot.
During filming, Director Tony Scott wrote a check for $25,000 to the skipper of the Enterprise so they could turn the carrier back around for another five minutes to continue filming the awesome opening scene.
Pilots do get dizzy, they're even afraid of heights. I had a privilege to spend a couple of weeks with former TOPGUN pilots recently and some of them confirmed it took some time for them to adjust to the hard maneuvers in a high performance jets. Great reaction, thanks for sharing :)
Goose got his head & neck smashed into the canopy from being ejected from the plane. Mostly likely I think is neck was broken from the impact. Being ejected from a Jet fighter is very violent and forceful. I think when you eject its like 100-150 Mph.
Hey, Liv!!! One of my all-time favorite movies! I was a 14 year old high school freshman when this movie came out, and I must have seen it on the big screen a half-dozen times. I also wore out my cassette of the soundtrack as well. When it released on VHS, it was the first VHS movie I owned. So...yep, one of my favorites! Enlistment in the US Navy jumped up in huge numbers after this movie came out...to the tune of around 500%!!! "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin (the love theme) won the Academy Award for Best Song. - 3:22 - Aircraft carriers have special tripwires to stop the planes, and the planes have a hook that lowers to latch on to the wire. The trick is to trap the second wire of the three wires across the deck. The carrier that they are on is the U.S.S. Enterprise (CVN-65) or "The Big E" which was decommisioned in 2017. However a new 'Enterprise' goes into service in 2028. - Tom was all of 24 when this was released in 1986. This was the film that made him "Tom Cruise"...full superstar achievement UNLOCKED! - 11:07 - This was one of Meg Ryan's first movie roles. Prior to this she was on soap operas and tv with small film roles. Her first leading role was a year later with 'InnerSpace' (1987) where she met her husband Dennis Quaid (their son Jack was in 'The Hunger Games' and is currently in 'The Boys' on Amazon Prime). In 1989, she did 'When Harry Met Sally...' and became the darling of the 1990s and the 2000s. - 15:31 - The canopy of the F-14 had a problem that actually led to a real death much like Goose's in the movie. The timing of the canopy coming off and the pilot and RIO ejecting was off and caused the manufacturer of the plane to rethink the timing so that a few seconds after the canopy blows the occupants are ejected. Add to the fact that the flat spin caused the canopy to not get out of the way anyway, Goose went up and it caused his neck to be broken. Technically, the flat spin wouldn't cause the plane to head out to sea, it would drop like a rock. - 20:34 - There is a catapult device to help propel the jets off of the deck, add to the fact that the plane has reved its engine up to almost full thrust when they take off...the length of the runway is almost incidental. Another famous face in the movie was the character of Merlin, Cougar's RIO (Radio Intercept Officer) at the beginning and Maverick's RIO at the end...it was future Oscar winner Tim Robbins. Thanks for this reaction! I have yet to see 'Top Gun Maverick'...but I REALLY, REALLY want to!!!
In 1986 TC was 24 and his career had been running for some years. One of his earlier films, Risky Business (1983) is a 80's teen flick that was popular for its time and still has a good message to this very day.
I love this movie, I joined the Navy in 88 but I didn't see this movie until years later. LOL That being said I want to make an observation. What most people fail to realized is that Goose's death was more Iceman's fault that anyone's . Here is a guy that is known for being cool under pressure and making sound logical decisions but he allowed his competitive nature to get the best of him. He was acting like Maverick in this instance and that's what caused the accident. I mean he didn't have the shot and everyone was tell him to disengage but his desire to win clouded his judgement. Once he concluded that he couldn't get the shot he pulled off erratically in front of Maverick and Goose out of frustration and the rest was a domino effect. I am sure for a guy that is constantly going off about safety concerns would understand the danger that might cause? I would have just like to see a little self reflection from Iceman, Just a thought.
21:03 it depends on the kind of tracking the missile is using. There's no way to notify the pilot with passive heat tracking as there's no way for the aircraft to realize its being targeted. But with radar tracking its possible for the aircraft to sense the radar pings off of it and notify the pilot. But in the case of the film, the notifications make it easier for the audience to follow the action. So they just use the notifications regardless just for clarity.
Which is why it helps to have an extra pair of eyes in the cockpit. Have to catch the heat seeker's missile trail in time once it's fired in order to avoid it. It's just a plus that SAM's tend to be Radar Guided and will give us an alert.
After this movie came out, US Navy recruitment intake went up 80%. It did its job and inspired people to want to strap themselves to a 30million dollar Steel Dragon.
Goose died because he forgot to detach the canopy before ejecting. You even hear Maverick yell, “Watch the canopy!" before they eject. In fighter jets at the time, you had to detach the canopy first and then eject. Modern jets do both automatically. Because Goose didn't allow the canopy to detach first, he slammed his head into the canopy when he ejected because there wasn't enough time for the canopy to clear before the seats ejected.
That’s not what happened. The F-14 went into a flat spin. Which caused a low pressure situation keeping the canopy stationary. It’s rare occurrence but it was proven it could happen.
@@audiodude74 True, but the flat spin you see in Top Gun is not how a flat spin happens in real life. Iceman says that the spin is sending Maverick “out to sea." In reality a flat spin sends the plane spiraling downward, not laterally like a frisbee. So yes, the canopy does hang around a bit in a low pressure situation, but Goose still should have detached the canopy earlier before ejecting. Again, modern fighters now have the the canopy detach first and then eject the pilot and RIO automatically pulling the eject handle.
@@44excalibur the heading out to sea line would be very drastic considering they were flying over the Nevada range. Which is nowhere near the ocean. The flat spin in the movie was performed by crew man throwing a model off of ladder. Which would explain its flat spin anomalies. However, flat spins can happen laterally. They actually pilot die while filming the movie. His aircraft was in true flat spin. Hence why they added it. As for the canopy, there wasn’t anything Goose did wrong. The aircraft was in a perfect storm. Today’s aircraft have what we call knives at the top of seat. In the event of a canopy hang up. The knives will just puncture the glass.
@@audiodude74 No, they weren't flying over the Nevada range. The original location for Top Gun(United States Navy Fighter Weapons School) when it was established in 1969 was Miramar, San Diego. Top Gun(now called United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program) didn't relocate until 1996 when it was merged into the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada. In 1986, Top Gun was still in Miramar, San Diego. Yes, I do know about the knives in the top of seats to puncture the canopy, but those are mostly for low altitude aircraft.
@@44excalibur Top Gun training is done in the desert. Not over the ocean. It’s always been that way. I have several family members who were fighter pilots. Who served as instructors at Miramar and Fallon. All modern day fighter planes (post F14) are fitted with knives. Please do some research before commenting.
"this move is gonna make us all want to be pilots, isn't it" iirc navy applications skyrocketed up 500% the following year of the release of Top Gun. So yes.
so this is from a DCS WORLD flight sim player so take it with a grain of salt - yes, in combat aircraft, you know when an enemy radar has you "locked on". normally, in airspace with potential for combat, aircraft are using their radar emitters to sweep back and forth across the sky to see if there is anybody out there (very important because radar can detect and shoot you down from 50 miles away... that's way farther than you can possibly see with your eyes). your plane however can detect this and your plane will tell you that someone in that general direction is emitting radar to sweep the sky, the radar has hit you, and they can probably see you. but when they put you in "lock", that means that the radar is no longer sweeping the sky back and forth and just occasionally illuminating you, it is focusing all of its radar energy and FOLLOWING YOU. the Radar Warning Receiver can tell the difference between when someone was just seeing you vs. when they have concentrated on you. and when they have concentrated on you, that probably means they're about to fire a misssile at you. you have a fun channel btw. you kind of look like kate beckinsale but you sound like a british nanny or something : ) .
Forgot how good this movie was, i watched this as a kid back in the early 90's when i was about 3 or 4 years old and i would set my chair up like the cockpit of a plane, i had one of those small 4 legged tables for children and i used to put that over a single seat sofa chair and put my car mat ontop to black out the sides and stuff and i had a flight jacket somehow looked like the ones they wear here a little bit ha brings me back some good memories thanks for that. I'm short on good memories of late, they say don't look back but sometimes looking back helps me move forward!
Regarding, "How can they get that close...?", when Maverick was upside down over the MiG in the beginning of the movie: They can't. That was just "movie magic" for dramatic effect. When a plane takes off from an aircraft carrier, a catapult system quickly pulls it up to flying speed. When a plane lands, cables stretched across the flight deck catch a hook on the plane to stop them. Tom Cruise was 23 years old when Top Gun was made. Great reaction, pretty lady. Thank you.
There's no such thing as a Top Gun trophy, it's a fighter pilot school, not a basketball academy... A Jet wash is when a plane gets caught in another plane's jet engine trail. On the carriers, there's a sling that shoots the jets on the short runway, helping them to take off fast.
When you have one engine, plane wants to move sideways and there is a risk of a flat spin. This is especially dangerous when you fly at slow speed as one wing can stall (not have enough lift to keep the wing holding the plane). Real pilot Kara Hultgreen died because this F-14 beast did that trick, compressor failure when she was flying low and about to land. F-14 is quite a beast to tame and this is why only the best were assigned an F-14 Tomcat. Kara was appointed politically and the plane did not care. The F-14 beast just killed her. There was a checklist she did not follow. And that checklist could have saved her life. Political appointments are very dangerous for those appointed. Another political appointment was Richard Bong WWII ace in the pacific. He was very aggresive, very daring and by having a P-38 Lightning which was a powerful plane, he used the strengths of that plane he managed a high score. But he was reckless, he loved to fly under bridges and things like that. After being decorated, he was appointed as test pilot. The next best thing aside of being an ace was to be a test pilot. But while air combat is about killing the enemy, being a test pilot is about taming a beast, your plane. To tame the beast the pilot needs to know his machine to a point the pilot should be able to modify it. This is what Chuck Yeager did. Also a test pilot must be disciplined with studying and following checklists to the letter. These checklists are designed to save your life. Richard Bong was not the guy who loved checklists or modifying a hotrod. He was daring and one day he flew, did not follow a checklist, lost control and in a few seconds he died. A real fighter pilot must be humble. The problem of ego is that it does not listen, and if an enemy is better, a big ego will not see that until it is too late. A humble person is more likely to learn from his enemy. Jet combat is usually solved in a matter of seconds.
The runway on an aircraft carrier IS very short, around 100 yards or the length of a football field. The aircraft launch with the assistance of a steam powered catapult that attaches to the nose landing gear. Basically a slingshot of sorts. The fighter jets are at full throttle with the afterburners engaged for maximum boost. On the flipside of the coin, landing is done with the help of arresting cables. There's at least 2 or more laid across the landing area. The aircraft has a hook at the tail end which grabs one of the cables which helps it stop in such a short distance. When the aircraft lands, the pilot actually engages full throttle on the engines in case it misses all the arresting cables and it can then take off, circle around and try again.
9:18 Aviators wearing Aviators 🤷🏻♂️ 15:16 a bit of science - the flat spin is caused by an engine stall (they depicted it incorrectly here as they showed both engines failing). Because of the width between the engines on an F-14, if one stalls and the other is still going, it creates uneven lateral thrust, which spins the aircraft around its own centreline. This is a problem on its own, but it creates another problem - zero air pressure on the top of the aircraft. This disrupts the ejection sequence - canopy jettison>RIO seat>Pilot seat - because of the zero pressure, the canopy hovers over the cockpit briefly instead of clearing away, obstructing the RIO seat as it is ejected. Basically it’s like firing someone head first out of a canon into a plate of glass 2 feet away. Goose suffered fatal head and spinal trauma - fractured skull, broken neck and likely compressed spine - the only mercy would be that death was instantaneous. 15:59 not just his friend, his voice of reason, the only one who puts up with his ego-fuelled bs and brings him back down. It’s a dangerous job, even in training, which is why they got ripped a new one for breaking the ‘hard deck’ earlier on, it’s a rule for safety. It’s also why Viper tells him “you’ve go to let him go”. The irony is, for all his recklessness, this accident wasn’t Maverick’s fault. Carole accepts that it’s not his fault because she knows that there’s always a possibility Goose may not come home one day. 17:38 yes he did - just before that, when Ice was giving his condolences, Maverick was emptying out his locker. Only one reaction channel I’ve seen realised that (I can’t remember which one), so don’t worry that you didn’t. 20:27 about 300 yards, an airport/airfield runway is well over 1000 yards. This is why carriers have the Catapult system - a steam piston that propels the aircraft from 0-170mph in about 2 seconds. That’s a rollercoaster ride and a half! 21:04 kind of (another incorrect depiction). Aircraft have various warning systems, one of those is a Radar Warning Receiver, which tells them they have been detected by the radar of another aircraft with a ‘bee-boo-bee-boo’ sound, another tells them a radar guided missile has been fired and is tracking them, a very intense ‘blip-blip-blip-blip’. In this case they were fired at with a heat seeking missile which doesn’t have radar guidance, so the only way they would know is by eyeballing the smoke trail, so again another incorrect depiction… but now I’m nitpicking 😂 24:30 she indeed went to Washington, that’s why she doesn’t return in the sequel. My take on it is: she used Maverick to further her career (“Your MiG sighting is really important to my work”), left when he needed her the most, and only came back after hearing about his heroics. A career driven woman with a job in Washington and a guy who just wants to fly at Mach 2 in the Navy (Pacific Fleet), it’s very complicated as Mav suggested it would be, and long distance relationships don’t usually work out. Top Gun Trivia: The carrier deck scenes were filmed aboard the USS Enterprise at sunrise. This is what gives a lot of those silhouetted shots that Sepia like hue. They were filming while the fleet was on active duty, so it had a course that it had to follow, and at one point the carrier turned and they lost the lighting for the shots, so director Tony Scott requested the ship turn back for a few more minutes. When the ship’s commander told him it would cost $25k to do so, Scott pulled out his personal chequebook and wrote one out on the spot. In a later interview he said that he made sure the cheque bounced 😂 The end credits has a message at the end: “dedicated to the memory of Art Scholl”. Art Scholl was a stunt pilot and aerial cameraman. During filming, he lost control of his camera plane, which plunged into the Pacific Ocean - neither the plane nor his body were ever recovered 😢 To make the cockpit scenes as real as possible, they took the cast up in jets to give them a sense of what it’s like to fly and pull Gs. During this ‘training’, Anthony Edwards (Goose) was the only one who didn’t throw up. Fast forward to Top Gun: Maverick, and for the cockpit scenes, they were actually in airborne jets. During the training (which Tom Cruise organised himself), out of the 12 cast members who went up, only 3 managed to not throw up - Miles Teller, who plays Goose’s son Rooster, was one of the 3 - like “father”, like “son”. During the dogfight scene in the final act, the US Defence Department permitted the firing of 2 missiles - an AIM-7 Sparrow from the F-14, and an AIM-9 Sidewinder from the “MiG-28” (a fictional aircraft depicted by the Navy’s F-5). They filmed the launches with a few different camera angles, and with some editing in post-production, they were able to make it look like multiple missiles were fired - it was so well done that the DD launched an official investigation to find out if there had been more than the 2 permitted launches. Missiles a very expensive you know 😂 Kenny Loggins originally provided one song for the soundtrack (Playing With The Boys), but due to a legal dispute leading to Toto pulling out, Loggins was approached to help finish and perform Danger Zone, and now I just can’t imagine anyone else performing it. 🎵Hiiiiiighwaaaay to the, danger zone, gonna take it riiiiight in to the, danger zooone🎵 🎸
Normally in an enjection what happens first is the canopy is blown in normal conditions its miles away when the seats go a few seconds later (rear seat goes first all the time) in this situation because of the spin the canopy stayed right above the seats when they blew. Today if a situation like this were to happen the seats are raised higher than the officer's heads and can punch right through the canopy if need be. This happened to a friend of mine when the seat malfunctioned and punched her out, she survived though at times I'm sure she wished she hadn't. She got a callsign from it that has still stuck with her "Punchout"
Yeah a carrier “runway” is extremely short, but they get catapulted off it while on full afterburner, so they don’t need as much runway compared to taking off on a normal runway. Same for landing, the tail hook catches the cables bringing the aircraft to a quick stop. Nice reaction to one of my favourite movies
Saw it in the theater. Can't add more than what others have said. Glad you saw this. Good work !!! A real sequel would have Mav paying alimony to two ex-wives. :D
Top Gun's finale is almost like a Star wars space battle vibe despite you trying to understand how the pilots deal with such fast jet fighters while shooting. Kinda like X-wing vs Tie Fighter.
I saw this first when I was in 2nd grade, now I'm 40 and I still love it!!! When they take off from an aircraft carrier, they are in full afterburner and there's a catapult hooked to the front wheel that launches them faster, otherwise it probably wouldn't be possible. Also "negative to Maverick means affirmative" ... yeah basically hahaha dude would have lost his wings about 30 times over in real life if this was real, safety is paramount for pilots of any type
hindsight is 20/20. Meg Ryan wasn't really a known actress back in 1986. Even so, with the little time she got in this movie she was awesome. If you didn't notice another great actor Tim Robbins (Shawshank Redemption), had a tiny role in this movie as the Cougar's RIO (as well as Maverick's RIO later on).....MERLIN in this movie.
The planes could not have been as close as is shown in the movie. Just as you said the planes would have collided. However the shot recreates an image in the article that inspired the movie. The picture showed two F-14s flying close to each other, with one of them inverted. But in fact the planes were not directly on top of each other, one of the planes was farther away from the camera, but the picture was taken from a long distance so the F-14 look about the same size so it creates the illusion that the planes were right on top of each other.
To see Val Kilmer (Iceman) with the same attitude but without the jet check him out in "Willow". Kilmer only plays one character in every movie but it's a good one.
After 98 years of US Naval aviation, fiscal year 2020 was the first year that neither the US Navy nor the US Marines recorded a a single aviation accident-related fatality. It happens. It's accepted. It sucks...every, single, time. There is a lot of trauma in the military.
Great movie. Another 80s romantic drama Officer and And A Gentleman with Richard Gear or Cocktail with Tom Cruse . Also a great 80's spy romantic comedy with the guy who plays Goose who is almost unknown today is Gotcha! which I highly recommend .
Hey Liv!, great reaction as always! Enjoyed talking with you and other chatterbots this morning on your twitch stream before I had to leave for work. Top Gun was the first NON star wars movie that I saw in the theater as a 12 year old. Still holds up (mostly) after all these years....
2:35 “no way they’d get that close” Actually they can. Over here in Britain we had a couple Russian jets move into our airspace. Two of our boys went out to intercept and see them off (no shooting just prodding and poking). Well let’s just say, one of our pilots did that to them. - interestingly enough the pilots mother is a good friend of our family and when we heard about it in the news papers we went “give you a bet it’s him”… well it wasn’t long after the pilots name was confirmed and out suspicions confirmed too.
I don;t know where to begin.It's Hollywood,but he could have been brought up on charges for numerous things including: disregarding a direct order from a superior officer(at least twice), numerous unauthorized flybys (one would have been enough), conduct unbecoming an officer(the ladies room thing).
Amazing film very classic Top Gun directed by Tony Scott starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer and Tom Skerritt. This film has many memorable moments including the classic songs Danger Zone single by Kenny Loggins and Take My Breath Away single by Berlin. The line "I feel the need - the need for speed" was ranked in the list of the American Film Institute (AFI) 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. Thank you Liiv great reaction excellent and now in theaters the sequel Top Gun: Maverick😊👍👍👍
Taking off from the Aircraft Carriers, they use a device which is literally called a "Catapult" You can guess how it works. Think jet fighter in a sling shot!
When someone fires at you, you are notified only if it is a radar guided missile, which can be either fire and forget or semiactive where your plane sends a signal that bounces on the enemy and the missile sees it and goes for the target. But if it is an infrared missile, you will not hear anything. Infrared seeks heat. Either the radar signal of the enemy missile or the enemy plane radar bouncing its signal on your plane is what warns you. Heat seeking missiles give no warn. A trick to kill a plane, if missile ranges overlap, is to fire a radar missile and an infrared missile. So the enemy believes that he evaded the lock, but the infrared hits him. In modern wars it is hard to have even one kill. If you have 3 kills you have seen a lot of action.
He had a panic attack due to hearing the radar missile lock warning. had it been Hypoxia "Couger" most likely would have blacked out had he not caught it quick enough. (once we experiance the symptoms of hypoxia we have emergency steps to correct it one of the first things that happens is to pump out 100% O2 under pressure and to drop below 10,000 feet. Pulling off the mask would be a real real bad idea in a situation involving hypoxia especially at an altitude were it would happen would be almost instant lights out.
compressor stall was common in the tomcat. that is what went wrong. normally the canopy would be blown back from wind but since they were in a flat spin the canopy just hovered above them in the burble. ejection seats now have spikes on the top to break the canopy should a pilot hit it.
Short runway, on a carrier it is short. Thus you see they spool up full engine power against a "blast type door" basically. Then they add in a steam driven catapult to kinda just sling the fighter off the deck. You go from a stop to lift in seconds. Now lands are another thing. U will see a tail hook come down, that hits an arresting cable. Which basically slams the aircraft on the deck and stops forward motion. That's the basic jist. I guess dumbed down. But that's what happens.
The new film is my FILM OF THE YEAR! If you are in London defiantly check it at the Waterloo IMAX as it was filmed with IMAX in mind. It was such a good time at the theater and lived up to the original!
1:50 Finally a reactor who understands that there is "missile lock" on Cougar which means the MIG can shoot a missile and kill him. 2:35 "What's happening to this dude (Cougar)?".... Oops, nevermind.
Fun fact: Yes, those are real planes no cgi... Even the flying's all too real... YOu should see the sequel. There's a behind the scenes of how the actors get to fly on jets in the backseat of course to complete the illusion of being the real pilot in it.!! The sequel is pure nostalgia baiting in a good way!
Flat spins were virtually unrecoverable. You lost all forward momentum and drop straight out the sky. If you were lucky you point the nose down and get control back, but that wasn't common.
Really enjoyed your reaction. I've always had an interest in aviation myself so I feel a connection there. I found the best way to get a feel for the pilots experience is flight sims. I really like DCS myself. I recommend it if you want to try it. IL2 is quite good as well (Pacific Battles, you could take off and land on carriers.) You can in dcs but I think you need to buy additional aircraft (FA-18 Hornet, Corsair, F14, Harrier) I don't have access to my PC so can't use it anymore. Or check out Growling Sidewider, he is a good pilot with some nice short videos. He he, "Don't they turn fast" yes, but you can't turn as fast at higher speeds, it's tricky and complex. You kinda need a lesson from a good instructor and to experience it in something like a flight sim. edit : some good films, "Reach For The Sky", "Battle Of Britain", "Air America" and "Memphis Belle". "Those Magnificent Men In Their flying machines" ( a bit niche, but some great flying sequences (early aircraft pre ww1.)
Hi Liv, First time watching a video on your channel. I really enjoyed your reaction. This movie is a fave of mine and the sequel is brilliantly done, both in cinematography and story telling. You'll love it I'm sure. Michael from Melbourne Australia.
Since you've said you're interested in how Pilots work I'd suggest watching the video about Royal Air Force QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) by Sky News Also don't diss wearing aviators in a night club, was at PRYZM in Watford recently and was rocking the look 😂😎 helps having them on because of the bright lights too
The f 14 . Eject system had a flaw . The chair was to fast or the canopy wasn't able to separate fast enough. Later versions of the aircraft fixed it . This plane is still flying, over 40 years. Its even better now than it was then .
They were in a flat spin. When the Ejection system blew the canopy it stayed above the cockpit instead of drifting away. It wasn't a flaw; it was the nature of the spin they were in. The F-14A's 'flaw' was in its engines; they were susceptible to compressor stalls due to ingesting turbulent airflow like jet wash.
You know Liiv. I've seen this movie so many times that I think this is the movie that I've seen the most. And I remember that I used to think, at the time, it was the most spectacular movie because all those crazy shots but... when I was watching the new dr. Strange movie, on IMAX, they showed the "little preview of Maverick" and believe me... IT WAS INSANE!!!!! I haven't seen the whole movie yet, I think I'll watch it next week, or in two weeks maximum, but for what I saw that day... it may be the most amazing film shot on IMAX, and I'm not talking about the plot or acting, I'm talking about how Gorgeous and Insane are those flight sequences look on this format, IDK, I'll find out soon. I'm glad that you enjoyed this movie, it's classic for sure. Stay Safe Please!!!! See Ya!
Kelly McGillis got the lead since she had done a few movies before this. In comparison, Meg Ryan was still a relatively unknown actress at this time. But Meg does a great job going from happy wife to grieving widow.
Being in the military and having a loving wife and child, especially if you ever talked about them, was the biggest hint that someone was not going to make it to the end of a 1980s movie.
How come Maverick is wearing Capt.Bars but they call him Lieutenant..?
@@fannybuster US Navy ranks are different from Army/Air Force/Marines. Navy goes: Ensign, Lt Junior Grade, Lt., Lt. Commander, Commander, Captain. While the other three branches have Second Lt, First Lt, Capt, Major, Lt. Colonel, Colonel. So a Navy full Lieutenant wears 2 bars and is the equivalent of a Capt in the other 3 branches while in the Navy a “Captain” wears a gold Eagle insignia and is equivalent to a full Colonel in the other branches. Maverick is a full Lt. in the Navy so wears 2 bars. Goose is a Lt. (Junior grade) so wears one bar.
Unless said character is the MC then it’s a sign that they will make it, albeit perhaps by dramatically close call.
Doesn't Cougar check all those boxes and live? lol
@@Linerunner99 Cougar lived, but he was not in the end of the movie.....
The aircraft in this movie was the F-14 Tomcat, one of the most legendary fighter jets in the history of aviation. The early models that they flew were prone to compressor stalls, which in extreme cases, could result in flat spins. Goose's death was based off of a real accident... the canopy is supposed to get jettisoned away from the aircraft when they eject, but in a flat spin it was found that it actually has a tendency to sort of hover right over the top of the aircraft, which is why Goose hit it. Procedures were changed in the cases of flat spins to where the pilot and RIO would have to manually jettison the canopy before ejecting to avoid this. But the Tomcat was a great aircraft... it was retired from service in 2007 (more so because of politics than anything else, unfortunately).
Yep. It was either Cheney or Rumsfeld who had a major dislike for Grumman.
@@audiodude74 exactly. Seems like very few people know the whole truth.
@@sledgehammerk35 they used the excuse that they didn’t want the parts to fall into Iran’s hands. My cousin flew F-14’s until they were retired. He’s still pretty bitter about their fate and the Super Tomcat getting rejected.
@@audiodude74 that seems to be the consensus from what I’ve heard from the Tomcat community. Have also heard that the Hornet mafia cooked the books to make it seem like the Hornet was better in every aspect. It’s a tragedy we didn’t get the Super Tomcat 21 program.
Everything you said makes sense but wouldn't Maverick also have been ejected into the canopy?
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"This movie is gonna make us all wanna be pilots, isn't it?"
Funny you said that because it already did. When this movie came out the Navy reportedly saw an increase of a massive 500% in applications the year following the love letter to Naval aviation.
R.I.P. F-14 Tomcat, unfairly retired in 2006 due to military budget cuts. Grumman's planned F-14 Super Tomcat 21 would have been a beautiful fighter jet, rivaling the Air Force 's F-15 Strike Eagle, if only it hadn't been cancelled by the Navy.
This is my dad's favorite movie and the first Tom Cruise movie I saw on VHS!
It was a box office success making $360 million dollars ($798-800 million dollars today) against a $15 million dollar budget.
It took home the Oscar for Best Original Song.
"I had the shot, there was no danger Soni took it." The phrase used in my family every time we pulled a hilarious prank or used a quick witted joke lol
The term “MiG" stands for Mikoyan-Gurevich, the aerospace manufacturing company that was the main supplier of fighter jets for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
I was literally wondering about that yesterday, actually around the same time that you wrote this comment, so thanks for answering it for me.
@@M1cha3lP You're welcome.
The other major Soviet aerospace manufacturing company is Sukhoi.
The MiG in Top Gun is a ficticious MiG-28, doesn't exist in real life. They used American F-5's painted in foreign colors to depict them as the enemy.
In video games based off the movie, the "MiG-28s" were replaced with real MiG-29 Fulcrums.
Sukhoi aircraft get designated Su-XX , like the Su-27 Flanker.
@@charminbaer2323 Yes, I know. Mikoyan Gurevich didn't use even numbers on their planes, and the actual state of the art MiG at the time Top Gun came out was the MiG-31 Foxhound. Since the end of the Cold War, Sukhoi has pretty much surpassed Mikoyan when it comes to fighter development.
@@charminbaer2323 Then at the beginning of the Top Gun classes they mention they'll be using F-5s and A-4s to simulate the enemy aircraft. The "aggressor" aircraft shown in the movie are all A-4s though, with F-5s playing the fictional MiG-28s.
You will definitely like the sequel. I was really happy to see that it stayed loyal to its fan base and to the original film.
this film did alot for me becoming a pilot myself, my dad is a pilot too and we have our own WWII era fighter-trainer that we do airshow demonstrations in. Its an amazing life and alot of hard work that pays off well
The military will rent just about anything to the movie industry if the script makes the military look good. The consider it a recruitment tool. Sounds like it works.
The fictional MiG-28 in Top Gun is actually a Northrop F-5 Tiger II, formerly an attack fighter for the US Navy, but is now used by the Navy as an adversary fighter during training exercises.
The F-5 was never a Navy Attack jet. The little A-4s that Viper and Jester were flown between 1955 and 2003. The did attack, airborne tanker, Electronic Warfare, Forward Air Control, Fleet Support,Advance Jet Training,Light Fleet Defense and of course Dissimilar Air Combat Training standing in for MiG-17s. The F-5 was never a frontline USN or USAF aircraft. The US Navy and USMC fly them as MiG-21/23 simulators out of MCAS Yuma, NAS Key West, NAS New Orleans and NAS Fallon.
The F-5 was also often used as a cheaper export option for US allies that couldn't afford better/more expensive options like the F-14. F-16, or F-15.
Mav went into Ice's jetwash, an area which had no oxygen left because the engines had used it up. This caused Mav's engines to stall and he couldn't recover. The odd colour in the water is emergency marker dye used to show the rescue helicopter where to find them.
Hey liv . Love this movie, i remember my big brother woke me up at midnight aged 7 when my folks were asleep, to watch this movie, a surprise with sweets popcorn and coke . ( best big brother). I think tom was 26 . It was 1986 but he had been making movies since 82 .
Tom is 59 now.So he was 23 when he did the original Top gun.
Tom Cruise was only 23 years old when Top Gun was filmed in 1985. He was only 20 years old when he starred in his first lead role in Risky Business three years earlier.
This is Tom Cruise's first adult role.
I've known a lot of fighter pilots and each and every one thought they were the very best. You need to think so, if you hope to survive.
By the way, to answer how these pilots can do what they do, the US spends roughly $5-$11 million in training for each of them.
when Goose hits the canopy,he likely broke his neck( and a possible brain hemmorage too). normally,the canopy would have blown away, but they were in a flat spin and the space directly above the jet would almost be in a vacuum.that's why the canopy didn't move on ejection.
When the ejection handle was pulled the canopy cover above them came off and when the pilots followed Goose's head hit the inside of the canopy. The impact is what killed him. 👱♀️👗👠👠💓
I’ve always thought Wolfman called Viper to let him know Maverick quit, and he did quit temporarily, his locker was cleaned out. But then since we get a cut to Charlie looking for him, I’ve always thought maybe Viper knew that they were dating and decided to send Charlie after him to talk him down. Also part of Charlie’s promotion allowed her to pick her position and post, so she took her boss’ old job once she found out Maverick was going back to Top Gun to be an instructor.
In actuality they could have had an open relationship since she was a civilian. it would have been a whole diffrent story had she been another officer (which is what the producers actually intended for her to be) or worse enlisted.
@@CDRhammond you’re right, they could have. But Charlie tells Maverick in the book before they sleep together that she doesn’t want anyone on the base to know know about them; probably because she’s the teacher and he’s the student. They got caught by Viper flirting in the hallway though.
1. An old shipmate of mine was on the Enterprise when they filmed this.
2. Gooses death was not Maverick's fault. Iceman was bogarting his LOS approach and they got caught in the jet wash.
3. I spent 24 years in the US Navy. 6 on "bird farms" (Carriers). I have seen 1000+ launches and landings without a single crash.
These men and the men working the flat tops are doing the most dangerous job in the world (for the good guys). Shout out😎
4. Kelly McGillis/Charlie was in a little-known movie with Harrison Ford "Witness" that's seriously worth a first time/share HINT HINT
5. Tom Skerritt/Viper not only played Dallas in "Alien" he also played Strawberry in "Up in Smoke" with Cheech and Chong.
6. Val Kilmer/Iceman has a long list of movies including but not limited to: "Willow", "The Doors" and "Tombstone"
7. The officer(Goose) is the RIO (Radar Intercept Officer) radar, communications and navigation.
8. Onboard the ship the Squadron leader would not be smoking a cigar in that operation space.
9. Meg Ryan is my honey. A great overlooked movie with her is with Tom Hanks called "Joe vs the Volcano' She plays 3 parts. HINT HINT
10. Onboard the ship/aircraft all the perspiration is Hollywood(not the pilot). There is AC onboard.
11. The TOP GUN school is no longer located at Miramar near San Diego. It's now at NAS Fallon, NV.
12. In 1991 I was stationed on the USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) and they made a movie onboard called "Flight of the Intruder".
It was seriously cool. Brad Johnson, Willem DeFoe and Danny Glover. I'm actually in it for a very brief period of time. HINT HINT. You will be the first.
13. Watching/sharing the new "Top Gun Maverick" is a must. The ariel work in that movie makes this one seem like they were practicing. Better yet it has a plot.
During filming, Director Tony Scott wrote a check for $25,000 to the skipper of the Enterprise so they could turn the carrier back around for another five minutes to continue filming the awesome opening scene.
15:06 He unluckily hits the canopy with high speed when ejecting.
If you're an aviation buff, watch a video about the F-14 Tomcat, and you'll see just what an utter behemoth the Tomcat really was. 👍🙂
I liken the F-14 to a ballerina who ate too many hotdogs… beautiful, graceful and agile despite her sizeable frame.
young Tom Cruise: *serenades her*
Liiv: "Oh cringe"
Nicholas Fraser: "Why the fuck you lying?!?!"
It just seems interesting to me that Iceman went from "I don't like you because you're dangerous!" to "The Navy needs Maverick!"
Pilots do get dizzy, they're even afraid of heights. I had a privilege to spend a couple of weeks with former TOPGUN pilots recently and some of them confirmed it took some time for them to adjust to the hard maneuvers in a high performance jets. Great reaction, thanks for sharing :)
Goose got his head & neck smashed into the canopy from being ejected from the plane. Mostly likely I think is neck was broken from the impact. Being ejected from a Jet fighter is very violent and forceful. I think when you eject its like 100-150 Mph.
Hey, Liv!!! One of my all-time favorite movies! I was a 14 year old high school freshman when this movie came out, and I must have seen it on the big screen a half-dozen times. I also wore out my cassette of the soundtrack as well. When it released on VHS, it was the first VHS movie I owned. So...yep, one of my favorites!
Enlistment in the US Navy jumped up in huge numbers after this movie came out...to the tune of around 500%!!!
"Take My Breath Away" by Berlin (the love theme) won the Academy Award for Best Song.
- 3:22 - Aircraft carriers have special tripwires to stop the planes, and the planes have a hook that lowers to latch on to the wire. The trick is to trap the second wire of the three wires across the deck. The carrier that they are on is the U.S.S. Enterprise (CVN-65) or "The Big E" which was decommisioned in 2017. However a new 'Enterprise' goes into service in 2028.
- Tom was all of 24 when this was released in 1986. This was the film that made him "Tom Cruise"...full superstar achievement UNLOCKED!
- 11:07 - This was one of Meg Ryan's first movie roles. Prior to this she was on soap operas and tv with small film roles. Her first leading role was a year later with 'InnerSpace' (1987) where she met her husband Dennis Quaid (their son Jack was in 'The Hunger Games' and is currently in 'The Boys' on Amazon Prime). In 1989, she did 'When Harry Met Sally...' and became the darling of the 1990s and the 2000s.
- 15:31 - The canopy of the F-14 had a problem that actually led to a real death much like Goose's in the movie. The timing of the canopy coming off and the pilot and RIO ejecting was off and caused the manufacturer of the plane to rethink the timing so that a few seconds after the canopy blows the occupants are ejected. Add to the fact that the flat spin caused the canopy to not get out of the way anyway, Goose went up and it caused his neck to be broken. Technically, the flat spin wouldn't cause the plane to head out to sea, it would drop like a rock.
- 20:34 - There is a catapult device to help propel the jets off of the deck, add to the fact that the plane has reved its engine up to almost full thrust when they take off...the length of the runway is almost incidental.
Another famous face in the movie was the character of Merlin, Cougar's RIO (Radio Intercept Officer) at the beginning and Maverick's RIO at the end...it was future Oscar winner Tim Robbins.
Thanks for this reaction! I have yet to see 'Top Gun Maverick'...but I REALLY, REALLY want to!!!
TopGunMaverick is a must, bro.
"And they all lived happily ever after", very next scene "Anthony Edwards as Goose". 🤣
"This movie is going to make us all want to be pilots." Did me back when it first came out. :)
In 1986 TC was 24 and his career had been running for some years. One of his earlier films, Risky Business (1983) is a 80's teen flick that was popular for its time and still has a good message to this very day.
Yup. You found out why they are called "Aviator Glasses" at 9:18.
I love this movie, I joined the Navy in 88 but I didn't see this movie until years later. LOL That being said I want to make an observation. What most people fail to realized is that Goose's death was more Iceman's fault that anyone's . Here is a guy that is known for being cool under pressure and making sound logical decisions but he allowed his competitive nature to get the best of him. He was acting like Maverick in this instance and that's what caused the accident. I mean he didn't have the shot and everyone was tell him to disengage but his desire to win clouded his judgement. Once he concluded that he couldn't get the shot he pulled off erratically in front of Maverick and Goose out of frustration and the rest was a domino effect. I am sure for a guy that is constantly going off about safety concerns would understand the danger that might cause? I would have just like to see a little self reflection from Iceman, Just a thought.
21:03 it depends on the kind of tracking the missile is using. There's no way to notify the pilot with passive heat tracking as there's no way for the aircraft to realize its being targeted. But with radar tracking its possible for the aircraft to sense the radar pings off of it and notify the pilot. But in the case of the film, the notifications make it easier for the audience to follow the action. So they just use the notifications regardless just for clarity.
Which is why it helps to have an extra pair of eyes in the cockpit. Have to catch the heat seeker's missile trail in time once it's fired in order to avoid it. It's just a plus that SAM's tend to be Radar Guided and will give us an alert.
After this movie came out, US Navy recruitment intake went up 80%. It did its job and inspired people to want to strap themselves to a 30million dollar Steel Dragon.
Goose died because he forgot to detach the canopy before ejecting. You even hear Maverick yell, “Watch the canopy!" before they eject. In fighter jets at the time, you had to detach the canopy first and then eject. Modern jets do both automatically. Because Goose didn't allow the canopy to detach first, he slammed his head into the canopy when he ejected because there wasn't enough time for the canopy to clear before the seats ejected.
That’s not what happened. The F-14 went into a flat spin. Which caused a low pressure situation keeping the canopy stationary. It’s rare occurrence but it was proven it could happen.
@@audiodude74 True, but the flat spin you see in Top Gun is not how a flat spin happens in real life. Iceman says that the spin is sending Maverick “out to sea." In reality a flat spin sends the plane spiraling downward, not laterally like a frisbee. So yes, the canopy does hang around a bit in a low pressure situation, but Goose still should have detached the canopy earlier before ejecting. Again, modern fighters now have the the canopy detach first and then eject the pilot and RIO automatically pulling the eject handle.
@@44excalibur the heading out to sea line would be very drastic considering they were flying over the Nevada range. Which is nowhere near the ocean. The flat spin in the movie was performed by crew man throwing a model off of ladder. Which would explain its flat spin anomalies. However, flat spins can happen laterally. They actually pilot die while filming the movie. His aircraft was in true flat spin. Hence why they added it. As for the canopy, there wasn’t anything Goose did wrong. The aircraft was in a perfect storm. Today’s aircraft have what we call knives at the top of seat. In the event of a canopy hang up. The knives will just puncture the glass.
@@audiodude74 No, they weren't flying over the Nevada range. The original location for Top Gun(United States Navy Fighter Weapons School) when it was established in 1969 was Miramar, San Diego. Top Gun(now called United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program) didn't relocate until 1996 when it was merged into the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada. In 1986, Top Gun was still in Miramar, San Diego. Yes, I do know about the knives in the top of seats to puncture the canopy, but those are mostly for low altitude aircraft.
@@44excalibur Top Gun training is done in the desert. Not over the ocean. It’s always been that way. I have several family members who were fighter pilots. Who served as instructors at Miramar and Fallon.
All modern day fighter planes (post F14) are fitted with knives. Please do some research before commenting.
"this move is gonna make us all want to be pilots, isn't it"
iirc navy applications skyrocketed up 500% the following year of the release of Top Gun. So yes.
Goose's head probably hit the canopy at like 200 miles an hour.
so this is from a DCS WORLD flight sim player so take it with a grain of salt - yes, in combat aircraft, you know when an enemy radar has you "locked on".
normally, in airspace with potential for combat, aircraft are using their radar emitters to sweep back and forth across the sky to see if there is anybody out there (very important because radar can detect and shoot you down from 50 miles away... that's way farther than you can possibly see with your eyes). your plane however can detect this and your plane will tell you that someone in that general direction is emitting radar to sweep the sky, the radar has hit you, and they can probably see you.
but when they put you in "lock", that means that the radar is no longer sweeping the sky back and forth and just occasionally illuminating you, it is focusing all of its radar energy and FOLLOWING YOU. the Radar Warning Receiver can tell the difference between when someone was just seeing you vs. when they have concentrated on you. and when they have concentrated on you, that probably means they're about to fire a misssile at you.
you have a fun channel btw. you kind of look like kate beckinsale but you sound like a british nanny or something : ) .
Forgot how good this movie was, i watched this as a kid back in the early 90's when i was about 3 or 4 years old and i would set my chair up like the cockpit of a plane, i had one of those small 4 legged tables for children and i used to put that over a single seat sofa chair and put my car mat ontop to black out the sides and stuff and i had a flight jacket somehow looked like the ones they wear here a little bit ha brings me back some good memories thanks for that. I'm short on good memories of late, they say don't look back but sometimes looking back helps me move forward!
Regarding, "How can they get that close...?", when Maverick was upside down over the MiG in the beginning of the movie: They can't. That was just "movie magic" for dramatic effect.
When a plane takes off from an aircraft carrier, a catapult system quickly pulls it up to flying speed. When a plane lands, cables stretched across the flight deck catch a hook on the plane to stop them.
Tom Cruise was 23 years old when Top Gun was made.
Great reaction, pretty lady. Thank you.
Getting that close is absolutely possible in real life, but both pilots need to coordinate, you can't pull it off without the other guy collaborating
There's no such thing as a Top Gun trophy, it's a fighter pilot school, not a basketball academy... A Jet wash is when a plane gets caught in another plane's jet engine trail. On the carriers, there's a sling that shoots the jets on the short runway, helping them to take off fast.
The aircraft carrier. Has a catapult to allow the plane to take off on the short runway and a hook system to catch a plane as it lands .
When you have one engine, plane wants to move sideways and there is a risk of a flat spin. This is especially dangerous when you fly at slow speed as one wing can stall (not have enough lift to keep the wing holding the plane). Real pilot Kara Hultgreen died because this F-14 beast did that trick, compressor failure when she was flying low and about to land. F-14 is quite a beast to tame and this is why only the best were assigned an F-14 Tomcat. Kara was appointed politically and the plane did not care. The F-14 beast just killed her. There was a checklist she did not follow. And that checklist could have saved her life.
Political appointments are very dangerous for those appointed. Another political appointment was Richard Bong WWII ace in the pacific. He was very aggresive, very daring and by having a P-38 Lightning which was a powerful plane, he used the strengths of that plane he managed a high score. But he was reckless, he loved to fly under bridges and things like that.
After being decorated, he was appointed as test pilot. The next best thing aside of being an ace was to be a test pilot. But while air combat is about killing the enemy, being a test pilot is about taming a beast, your plane.
To tame the beast the pilot needs to know his machine to a point the pilot should be able to modify it. This is what Chuck Yeager did. Also a test pilot must be disciplined with studying and following checklists to the letter. These checklists are designed to save your life. Richard Bong was not the guy who loved checklists or modifying a hotrod. He was daring and one day he flew, did not follow a checklist, lost control and in a few seconds he died.
A real fighter pilot must be humble. The problem of ego is that it does not listen, and if an enemy is better, a big ego will not see that until it is too late. A humble person is more likely to learn from his enemy. Jet combat is usually solved in a matter of seconds.
Bleedy women pilots thinking they're equal to men. And women comedians too.
Yes, being propelled head first by a rocket into a fighter jet canopy at 60 mph kills you. RIP Goose😢
No words Liv. I've been waiting all week for this. So proud of you and your work. GGs once more
The runway on an aircraft carrier IS very short, around 100 yards or the length of a football field. The aircraft launch with the assistance of a steam powered catapult that attaches to the nose landing gear. Basically a slingshot of sorts. The fighter jets are at full throttle with the afterburners engaged for maximum boost.
On the flipside of the coin, landing is done with the help of arresting cables. There's at least 2 or more laid across the landing area. The aircraft has a hook at the tail end which grabs one of the cables which helps it stop in such a short distance. When the aircraft lands, the pilot actually engages full throttle on the engines in case it misses all the arresting cables and it can then take off, circle around and try again.
36 years later, Maverick returns to Top Gun.
17:50 flew out of that airport many times in my military career. See that glass of water on the bar? In 1980 prices it was 7.00 Yeah, rip off prices.
9:18 Aviators wearing Aviators 🤷🏻♂️
15:16 a bit of science - the flat spin is caused by an engine stall (they depicted it incorrectly here as they showed both engines failing). Because of the width between the engines on an F-14, if one stalls and the other is still going, it creates uneven lateral thrust, which spins the aircraft around its own centreline. This is a problem on its own, but it creates another problem - zero air pressure on the top of the aircraft. This disrupts the ejection sequence - canopy jettison>RIO seat>Pilot seat - because of the zero pressure, the canopy hovers over the cockpit briefly instead of clearing away, obstructing the RIO seat as it is ejected. Basically it’s like firing someone head first out of a canon into a plate of glass 2 feet away. Goose suffered fatal head and spinal trauma - fractured skull, broken neck and likely compressed spine - the only mercy would be that death was instantaneous.
15:59 not just his friend, his voice of reason, the only one who puts up with his ego-fuelled bs and brings him back down. It’s a dangerous job, even in training, which is why they got ripped a new one for breaking the ‘hard deck’ earlier on, it’s a rule for safety. It’s also why Viper tells him “you’ve go to let him go”. The irony is, for all his recklessness, this accident wasn’t Maverick’s fault. Carole accepts that it’s not his fault because she knows that there’s always a possibility Goose may not come home one day.
17:38 yes he did - just before that, when Ice was giving his condolences, Maverick was emptying out his locker. Only one reaction channel I’ve seen realised that (I can’t remember which one), so don’t worry that you didn’t.
20:27 about 300 yards, an airport/airfield runway is well over 1000 yards. This is why carriers have the Catapult system - a steam piston that propels the aircraft from 0-170mph in about 2 seconds. That’s a rollercoaster ride and a half!
21:04 kind of (another incorrect depiction). Aircraft have various warning systems, one of those is a Radar Warning Receiver, which tells them they have been detected by the radar of another aircraft with a ‘bee-boo-bee-boo’ sound, another tells them a radar guided missile has been fired and is tracking them, a very intense ‘blip-blip-blip-blip’. In this case they were fired at with a heat seeking missile which doesn’t have radar guidance, so the only way they would know is by eyeballing the smoke trail, so again another incorrect depiction… but now I’m nitpicking 😂
24:30 she indeed went to Washington, that’s why she doesn’t return in the sequel. My take on it is: she used Maverick to further her career (“Your MiG sighting is really important to my work”), left when he needed her the most, and only came back after hearing about his heroics. A career driven woman with a job in Washington and a guy who just wants to fly at Mach 2 in the Navy (Pacific Fleet), it’s very complicated as Mav suggested it would be, and long distance relationships don’t usually work out.
Top Gun Trivia:
The carrier deck scenes were filmed aboard the USS Enterprise at sunrise. This is what gives a lot of those silhouetted shots that Sepia like hue. They were filming while the fleet was on active duty, so it had a course that it had to follow, and at one point the carrier turned and they lost the lighting for the shots, so director Tony Scott requested the ship turn back for a few more minutes. When the ship’s commander told him it would cost $25k to do so, Scott pulled out his personal chequebook and wrote one out on the spot. In a later interview he said that he made sure the cheque bounced 😂
The end credits has a message at the end: “dedicated to the memory of Art Scholl”. Art Scholl was a stunt pilot and aerial cameraman. During filming, he lost control of his camera plane, which plunged into the Pacific Ocean - neither the plane nor his body were ever recovered 😢
To make the cockpit scenes as real as possible, they took the cast up in jets to give them a sense of what it’s like to fly and pull Gs. During this ‘training’, Anthony Edwards (Goose) was the only one who didn’t throw up. Fast forward to Top Gun: Maverick, and for the cockpit scenes, they were actually in airborne jets. During the training (which Tom Cruise organised himself), out of the 12 cast members who went up, only 3 managed to not throw up - Miles Teller, who plays Goose’s son Rooster, was one of the 3 - like “father”, like “son”.
During the dogfight scene in the final act, the US Defence Department permitted the firing of 2 missiles - an AIM-7 Sparrow from the F-14, and an AIM-9 Sidewinder from the “MiG-28” (a fictional aircraft depicted by the Navy’s F-5). They filmed the launches with a few different camera angles, and with some editing in post-production, they were able to make it look like multiple missiles were fired - it was so well done that the DD launched an official investigation to find out if there had been more than the 2 permitted launches. Missiles a very expensive you know 😂
Kenny Loggins originally provided one song for the soundtrack (Playing With The Boys), but due to a legal dispute leading to Toto pulling out, Loggins was approached to help finish and perform Danger Zone, and now I just can’t imagine anyone else performing it. 🎵Hiiiiiighwaaaay to the, danger zone, gonna take it riiiiight in to the, danger zooone🎵 🎸
Normally in an enjection what happens first is the canopy is blown in normal conditions its miles away when the seats go a few seconds later (rear seat goes first all the time) in this situation because of the spin the canopy stayed right above the seats when they blew. Today if a situation like this were to happen the seats are raised higher than the officer's heads and can punch right through the canopy if need be. This happened to a friend of mine when the seat malfunctioned and punched her out, she survived though at times I'm sure she wished she hadn't. She got a callsign from it that has still stuck with her "Punchout"
Yeah a carrier “runway” is extremely short, but they get catapulted off it while on full afterburner, so they don’t need as much runway compared to taking off on a normal runway. Same for landing, the tail hook catches the cables bringing the aircraft to a quick stop. Nice reaction to one of my favourite movies
Saw it in the theater. Can't add more than what others have said. Glad you saw this. Good work !!! A real sequel would have Mav paying alimony to two ex-wives. :D
Interestingly enough, the " hard deck " means the actual ground. So he was not below the ground for more than a few seconds lol
Top Gun's finale is almost like a Star wars space battle vibe despite you trying to understand how the pilots deal with such fast jet fighters while shooting. Kinda like X-wing vs Tie Fighter.
The planes are catapulted off the ship. Like a slingshot. When they land they have a hook that grabs a cable and stops them. :) Thanks for the review.
I saw this first when I was in 2nd grade, now I'm 40 and I still love it!!!
When they take off from an aircraft carrier, they are in full afterburner and there's a catapult hooked to the front wheel that launches them faster, otherwise it probably wouldn't be possible.
Also "negative to Maverick means affirmative" ... yeah basically hahaha dude would have lost his wings about 30 times over in real life if this was real, safety is paramount for pilots of any type
20:35 They have huge slingshots that launch them at really high speeds as well as really strong cables/bungees that catch them when landing
hindsight is 20/20. Meg Ryan wasn't really a known actress back in 1986. Even so, with the little time she got in this movie she was awesome. If you didn't notice another great actor Tim Robbins (Shawshank Redemption), had a tiny role in this movie as the Cougar's RIO (as well as Maverick's RIO later on).....MERLIN in this movie.
Goose died because when they ejected he was launched right into the canopy head first. It broke his neck and he died instantly.
The planes could not have been as close as is shown in the movie. Just as you said the planes would have collided. However the shot recreates an image in the article that inspired the movie. The picture showed two F-14s flying close to each other, with one of them inverted. But in fact the planes were not directly on top of each other, one of the planes was farther away from the camera, but the picture was taken from a long distance so the F-14 look about the same size so it creates the illusion that the planes were right on top of each other.
To see Val Kilmer (Iceman) with the same attitude but without the jet check him out in "Willow". Kilmer only plays one character in every movie but it's a good one.
Was defiantly one of the main reasons I became a F/A-18 pilot
And yes, Goose died when his head got hit in the glass canopy while being ejected in the air BOOOOMMM head splat. That hurts.
After 98 years of US Naval aviation, fiscal year 2020 was the first year that neither the US Navy nor the US Marines recorded a a single aviation accident-related fatality.
It happens. It's accepted. It sucks...every, single, time. There is a lot of trauma in the military.
To launch from an aircraft carrier they're catapulted to reach airspeed same when they land they catch a resting cables to bring them to a stop
Goose’s head hit the cockpit canopy as they ejected.
Great movie. Another 80s romantic drama Officer and And A Gentleman with Richard Gear or Cocktail with Tom Cruse . Also a great 80's spy romantic comedy with the guy who plays Goose who is almost unknown today is Gotcha! which I highly recommend .
Hey Liv!, great reaction as always! Enjoyed talking with you and other chatterbots this morning on your twitch stream before I had to leave for work. Top Gun was the first NON star wars movie that I saw in the theater as a 12 year old. Still holds up (mostly) after all these years....
2:35 “no way they’d get that close”
Actually they can. Over here in Britain we had a couple Russian jets move into our airspace. Two of our boys went out to intercept and see them off (no shooting just prodding and poking).
Well let’s just say, one of our pilots did that to them.
- interestingly enough the pilots mother is a good friend of our family and when we heard about it in the news papers we went “give you a bet it’s him”… well it wasn’t long after the pilots name was confirmed and out suspicions confirmed too.
If it was in real life they would have been kicked out of the navy. The F14 tomcat is not in service anymore last time used September 2006
I don;t know where to begin.It's Hollywood,but he could have been brought up on charges for numerous things including: disregarding a direct order from a superior officer(at least twice), numerous unauthorized flybys (one would have been enough), conduct unbecoming an officer(the ladies room thing).
Court Marshall for disengaging. Sexual Harassment. Etc, etc, etc. However, you have to add the Hollywood to it.
Ironic thing about the love story plot between Maverick and 'Charlie' is that Kelly McGillis is gay in real life.
Amazing film very classic Top Gun directed by Tony Scott starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer and Tom Skerritt. This film has many memorable moments including the classic songs Danger Zone single by Kenny Loggins and Take My Breath Away single by Berlin. The line "I feel the need - the need for speed" was ranked in the list of the American Film Institute (AFI) 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. Thank you Liiv great reaction excellent and now in theaters the sequel Top Gun: Maverick😊👍👍👍
Taking off from the Aircraft Carriers, they use a device which is literally called a "Catapult"
You can guess how it works. Think jet fighter in a sling shot!
When someone fires at you, you are notified only if it is a radar guided missile, which can be either fire and forget or semiactive where your plane sends a signal that bounces on the enemy and the missile sees it and goes for the target. But if it is an infrared missile, you will not hear anything. Infrared seeks heat. Either the radar signal of the enemy missile or the enemy plane radar bouncing its signal on your plane is what warns you. Heat seeking missiles give no warn.
A trick to kill a plane, if missile ranges overlap, is to fire a radar missile and an infrared missile. So the enemy believes that he evaded the lock, but the infrared hits him.
In modern wars it is hard to have even one kill. If you have 3 kills you have seen a lot of action.
He had a panic attack due to hearing the radar missile lock warning. had it been Hypoxia "Couger" most likely would have blacked out had he not caught it quick enough. (once we experiance the symptoms of hypoxia we have emergency steps to correct it one of the first things that happens is to pump out 100% O2 under pressure and to drop below 10,000 feet. Pulling off the mask would be a real real bad idea in a situation involving hypoxia especially at an altitude were it would happen would be almost instant lights out.
compressor stall was common in the tomcat. that is what went wrong. normally the canopy would be blown back from wind but since they were in a flat spin the canopy just hovered above them in the burble. ejection seats now have spikes on the top to break the canopy should a pilot hit it.
"He can't fire until he's fired at that's shit" no it's not I wish cops had the same instructions.
Short runway, on a carrier it is short. Thus you see they spool up full engine power against a "blast type door" basically. Then they add in a steam driven catapult to kinda just sling the fighter off the deck. You go from a stop to lift in seconds. Now lands are another thing. U will see a tail hook come down, that hits an arresting cable. Which basically slams the aircraft on the deck and stops forward motion. That's the basic jist. I guess dumbed down. But that's what happens.
People die in military training in All Nations goose hit the canopy and the injection probably breaking his neck
Great reaction Liv! Please do the movie “Dances with Wolves”. You will love it!
The new film is my FILM OF THE YEAR! If you are in London defiantly check it at the Waterloo IMAX as it was filmed with IMAX in mind. It was such a good time at the theater and lived up to the original!
@20:30 they use catapults. if they tried taking off under their own power they’d fall into the water.
1:50 Finally a reactor who understands that there is "missile lock" on Cougar which means the MIG can shoot a missile and kill him.
2:35 "What's happening to this dude (Cougar)?".... Oops, nevermind.
yeah aircraft carriers were a thing even during WW2 where propellered planes had the same ships to land on soo.
You should check out the Blue Angels, that's some serious flying
Fun fact: Yes, those are real planes no cgi... Even the flying's all too real... YOu should see the sequel. There's a behind the scenes of how the actors get to fly on jets in the backseat of course to complete the illusion of being the real pilot in it.!! The sequel is pure nostalgia baiting in a good way!
Flat spins were virtually unrecoverable. You lost all forward momentum and drop straight out the sky. If you were lucky you point the nose down and get control back, but that wasn't common.
What u call cringe is old school flirting but now guys ignore it because women will call it harassment
Really enjoyed your reaction. I've always had an interest in aviation myself so I feel a connection there.
I found the best way to get a feel for the pilots experience is flight sims. I really like DCS myself. I recommend it if you want to try it. IL2 is quite good as well (Pacific Battles, you could take off and land on carriers.)
You can in dcs but I think you need to buy additional aircraft (FA-18 Hornet, Corsair, F14, Harrier) I don't have access to my PC so can't use it anymore. Or check out Growling Sidewider, he is a good pilot with some nice short videos.
He he, "Don't they turn fast" yes, but you can't turn as fast at higher speeds, it's tricky and complex. You kinda need a lesson from a good instructor and to experience it in something like a flight sim.
edit : some good films, "Reach For The Sky", "Battle Of Britain", "Air America" and "Memphis Belle".
"Those Magnificent Men In Their flying machines" ( a bit niche, but some great flying sequences (early aircraft pre ww1.)
Hi Liv,
First time watching a video on your channel. I really enjoyed your reaction. This movie is a fave of mine and the sequel is brilliantly done, both in cinematography and story telling. You'll love it I'm sure. Michael from Melbourne Australia.
Since you've said you're interested in how Pilots work I'd suggest watching the video about Royal Air Force QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) by Sky News
Also don't diss wearing aviators in a night club, was at PRYZM in Watford recently and was rocking the look 😂😎 helps having them on because of the bright lights too
Precision flying by Naval Aviators: ruclips.net/video/6kuIsPPrsjE/видео.html&ab_channel=AirshowStuffVideos
Love this reaction!!! Now, I'm going to immediately watch your Top Gun: Maverick reaction!!
For really good aviation related videos I recommend the YT channel Dark Skies and episodes of the History Channel show Dog Fights.
The f 14 . Eject system had a flaw . The chair was to fast or the canopy wasn't able to separate fast enough. Later versions of the aircraft fixed it . This plane is still flying, over 40 years. Its even better now than it was then .
The F14 tomcat is not in service anymore last time used September 2006
@@seanbumstead1250 really ?
They were in a flat spin. When the Ejection system blew the canopy it stayed above the cockpit instead of drifting away. It wasn't a flaw; it was the nature of the spin they were in. The F-14A's 'flaw' was in its engines; they were susceptible to compressor stalls due to ingesting turbulent airflow like jet wash.
@@seanbumstead1250 Iran still operates a handful of them.
@@shanenolan8252 There's still a few in service overseas, but the USN phased them out and replaced them with the F/A-18 Hornets.
So when are Maverick and Iceman gonna F? After Mav’s husband Goose died, and Charlie ditched him for the job in DC, he needed that lovin’ feeling
Tom was 24 in 1986, and interestingly his third wife, Katie Holmes was EIGHT years old.
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You know Liiv. I've seen this movie so many times that I think this is the movie that I've seen the most.
And I remember that I used to think, at the time, it was the most spectacular movie because all those crazy shots but... when I was watching the new dr. Strange movie, on IMAX, they showed the "little preview of Maverick" and believe me... IT WAS INSANE!!!!!
I haven't seen the whole movie yet, I think I'll watch it next week, or in two weeks maximum, but for what I saw that day... it may be the most amazing film shot on IMAX, and I'm not talking about the plot or acting, I'm talking about how Gorgeous and Insane are those flight sequences look on this format, IDK, I'll find out soon.
I'm glad that you enjoyed this movie, it's classic for sure.
Stay Safe Please!!!!
See Ya!