🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To TOP GUN (1986) - FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m going React To TOP GUN (1986) - FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION!
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I'm an old UK lady. Many many moons ago, my Mother and I were holidaying in Majorca when a part of the US fleet anchored off the coast. Some of the senior crew liked to drink in the bar in the hotel we were staying in and we befriended the Bosun, nicknamed 'Boats'. He invited us both to a tour of his ship, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was huge. Every time we went into a room where there were resting sailors we were offered hospitality. I've never drunk so much coffee in my life
true, true
I watched this movie when it first came out. I saw Top Gun: Maverick a couple of weeks ago and the first time Maverick said "Talk to me, Goose." I got chills...
Kabir,
Even in training, freak accidents can still happen. When pilots eject they experience 10+ Gs of velocity. When Goose’s head hit the canopy, he suffered head trauma and his neck snapped; he died instantly. His death is one, I admit, I still can’t get over. Many a grown adult has broken down hard at that one moment.
After Goose’s death, Maverick wasn’t cautious…he started second guessing everything in the air. Definitely chalked up to survivor’s guilt. The “talk to me Goose” moment was when he snapped back as you saw.
I can’t help but see Anthony Edwards as Dr. Green from ER. I really liked his character and I know I’m not the only one he cried when he (his character) got cancer and died.
@@ashleydixon4613 You are not alone in that statement. Anthony Edwards really knows how to make a character’s death impactful.
@@ashleydixon4613 Anthony Edwards is such a underrated actor who truly makes each character stand on its own. I loved him as Mark Green, and as Janine Turner's germaphobe boyfriend in Northern Exposure. In all three, Edward's gave them their own personality. He's definitely one of the rare actors who escaped being type casted.
....All that said, I'll always love Goose the most.
That freak accident was a known real issue for early tomcats. They fixed it by extending the time between the canopy releasing and the ejection seats firing.
@@Melivilth Oh I knew that, but they added another feature and that is to have the canopy blow away instead of vertical. I’ll agree that I should have added that.
Seeing this in theaters on a huge screen, with the amazing sound and visuals, was mind blowing
One of the best recruitment movies ever! The Navy and Department of Defense helped out so much with this movie because they knew it would be in new pilots. And it did!
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 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. Goose was Maverick's RIO
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.It's better than this.💯
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. Best of all, it has a plot👌
Thank you for the information, very cool. I agree with most of your comments except for Joe vs Volcano. Oh, and Top Gun has a plot, if that's what you were implying?
Niiiiiice!
IRT #8, this was mid 80’s and they didn’t extinguish the smoking lamp inside spaces until about 87-88. I remember it because we commissioned our ship in Jan 86, and we were able to smoke inside the skin of the ship for at least a year. From then on the smoking area was on the fantail.
Paramount Pictures commissioned Grumman, the makers of the F-14, to develop and install special camera mounts on the plane. This allowed the filmmakers to use real aerial point-of-view footage of the Tomcat in flight.
No such plane as a Mig28, it’s creative license, the MiGs are actually American Northrop F5s from the 70s later used as Navy flight trainers.
Its always cold in the cockpit but they have heaters.
As a 20 year military veteran a few points. We had air conditioning in the 80's I have no idea why everyone is sweating. And no one showers in a group at the operations building and sit around in towels. As for the dogfighter and calls between aircraft, they took a lot of liberties. You dont use personal callsigns over the radio during a mission, the aircraft has a mission callsign for the day that you use. There are many others but a lot is accurate too.
The CIC is FREEZING but I think the buzzing the tower $hit and the jamboree on the flight deck at the end was worse. And there's no trophy...but I guess that's Hollywood!
We joke constantly about the "sweat" !! It never moves or drips like normal sweat would anyway. Spot on with everything else too ( as I have learned - not my own experience).
My husband was in the Army for 26 years. I can tell you for sure that in the 1980s, at Ft. Bragg, N.C., the old buildings used as Battalion HQ had no air conditioning. June-September is horrendous in south central North Carolina. You could not go from your house to your car without being drenched. But I do think they overdid it in this movie. With all of that electronic equipment they had in there, they would have wanted to keep that cool, if nothing else.
Oh boy my dad would love to tell you about what it was like working on a carrier (he enlisted and requested to be put in Naval Aviation thanks to this movie btw). The whole opening shots of the planes getting hooked up and launched is live footage the Department of Defense and US Navy let them film of the deck crew in action so you’re seeing a majority of what’s happening there as real as it gets. In summary, when you get put on the deck you’re tasked based on the color jacket you wear, Red handle munitions, Purple handle fuel lines, Yellow is the “Air Boss” they tour direct the whole process with hand signals, and then there’s a few other color groups I can’t think of but my dad was tasked as a Green jacket, which meant for the most part he was checking to make sure everything was hooked up and working-namely being the lucky guy that has to get under the plane (very close to a running engine) and make sure the catapult used to fling the jet off at a safe speed was properly connected to the front of the airframe. That’s basically flight ops on an active deployment more or less, doing that for 18 hours straight. Up to 4 launches at one time, prepping landing cable for return flights, maybe help offload the supply plane when they come in with mail service or supplies. Apparently, it ends up working out to be such a chaotically efficient process that the only time it gets hairy for the deck crew my dad would say was at night time when you can’t even see the plane on approach until it’s basically in your face and roaring past you as it gets caught on the landing wires.
Wow, that's a fantastic amount of information! Thank you, and thanks to your dad for his service. 🇺🇸
Love that you shared all this. It's amazing how it all works. My husband lived it for years & I still feel like a kid getting an insider's view when I watch these scenes. It's by far my favorite part.
My father served aboard a carrier from 1959-1963 (not as a pilot).
One day, he was serving as Officer of the Day on the bridge - effectively, in command of the ship for that work shift.
The Captain arrived to relieve him as they were launching aircraft. Suddenly, one of the departing planes launched; the pilot hadn't given the flaps enough lift. The plane nosedived immediately after leaving the flight deck. My dad ordered rescue helicopters and divers to launch to rescue the aircrew. The Captain interrupted. "Belay that order. The mission is recovery and salvage, not rescue". He then turned to my dad and said, "He was dead as soon as he hit the water".
The Captain was a guy by the name of Houck. He had been a naval aviator since the 1930's, and served throughout WW2 and the Korean Conflict. During his time as a pilot, he received the Navy Cross (second highest decoration after the Medal of Honor) four times.
Basically, the Captain was a total, swinging dick badass who had forgotten more about carrier operations than most pilots learn in a lifetime. The ship was the USS Shangri-la, hull number, CV-38. At the time, they were deploying to the Caribbean in order to stare down the Soviet Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
We sometimes forget that our parents were once young, and have incredible stories which predate our arrival.
The carrier they were operating from was the USS Enterprise (the Big E), the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. She served 55 years and was decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register in 2017. She currently awaits recycling, a long and difficult process due to her 8 nuclear reactors.
“hard deck” is used in training exercises. it is used to refer to the ground for safety purposes.
if you go below the “hard deck “ it means you went “underground”
32:09 The five MiGs didn't show up on radar probably because they were flying close enough together to fake a radar signature of one or two.
You saw how tight that formation they were in was.
I guess you didn’t realize Goose is Rooster’s dad.
Viper (Tom Skerritt) was the Captain (Dallas)in Alien. Iceman, (Val Kilmer) was Doc Holliday in Tombstone and reprised the role of Iceman in Top Gun Maverick. Goose was Rooster’s father in Top Gun. Maverick pulled Rooster’s papers in flight school. He was afraid for him if you remember in the new movie Top Gun. When they ejected, Goose hit the canopy with his head….probably breaking his neck? Lots of good actors in both movies. Good reaction Kabir. My sister in laws good friend married a jet fighter pilot and he was killed in an accident off San Diego. The jet had issues after takeoff and ditched into the ocean. He drowned when he couldn’t get out of the jet quickly enough. She raised their 4 children alone. Breaks your heart.
You definitely should've watch Top Gun first. I'm quite shocked that you didn't really.
The aerial shots they did for this movie were so good the government actually debriefed them on how they got them because they look so real. He did have a camera. It's called a Polaroid and it pushed out instant pics. I still have my grandma's brown Polaroid camera and I also have one of the original flash bars.
This movie was huge including the soundtrack and the score. You're much more tolerant than I am because I don't like seeing movies out of sequence.
Agreed. The homages paid to the original film in the sequel are missed if you see them out of order.
From what I've been told, the guy "Perry" that Charlie was meeting up with when Maverick first met her; is the Original Maverick that this movie is based on.
Not Maverick, it’s the actual Viper.
@@racerfink holy shit it’s viper
YES! This movie is so good and one of the best action movies ever. The song Danger Zone fits perfectly with this masterpiece
Cruise had numerous movie roles before Top Gun. The movie that was his breakout and made him a box office commodity was "Risky Business". Cruise was ready well known by the time this movie was made.
As for Maverick getting back into the air. The military must always act like it's war time, you cannot just hit pause when things go wrong in war, you keep moving forward. If Maverick didn't get right back to flying, chances are he would have never got back into the air. The fear would have consumed him
My uncle was a Top Gun Pilot and an extra in the movie. The "you've lost that lovin' feelin'" scene was filmed at his favorite bar. He was there for it.
imagine i saw it in cinema when i was a teenager in the 80s... !!! imagine the impact at this moment everyones wanted to be a jetfighter pilot ...what a memory :)
Grew up on this, haven't seen the new one yet, still enjoy it, watched it recently with the family.
Top Gun is US Navy.
Did you notice who flew with Mav, on the last flight? Tim ROBBINS who played Andy on ShawshankRedemption. ,
Enjoyed this. I'm a little late to this party, but Cruise's breakout role was actually "Risky Business" released in 1983. He had a couple supporting roles before that, including the movie "Taps" released in 1981. There are a few young actors in that one including Sean Penn. It's an 'ok' movie, but you might be interested in seeing them so young.
I live in the town where navy pilots are trained (Pensacola) and "who's better pilots, Navy or Air Force" will start a fist-fight every time. 🤣
My mom's cousin was on of the 1st instructors for the Top Gun school. The photos and his stories are amazing.
“merlin “ is played by Tim Robbins (Andy from The Shawshank Redemption)
My hubby worked on the flight deck guiding planes, for years. It's a dangerous job, so much so, they get "hazardous duty pay". Most of the danger comes from getting sucked into a jet engine, and from falling off the side (5 stories above the water, certain death.) Both mishaps happened to crew members during his tenure.
I served on a destroyer and helped with the helicopter landings on our ship as a collateral duty on top of my main job. Falling overboard was an issue for us but the helicopters actually crashing was probably our next most likely danger. No matter the size of the ship, flight decks at sea are inherently dangerous. Much respect to my fellow flight deck crews out there.
My ex-husband was a Navy vet and submariner before we were married. He had an incident happen where a guy fell to his death from about three floors up in the submarine. My ex performed CPR on him and had him stabilized and breathing, and was able to evacuate him on a helicopter, but he didn’t make it.
My husband flew Hornet's for 20 years - I am still so impressed by what goes on during flight ops. Thanks to everyone for all they do!
If the cable snaps...super-danger
My father happened to be in the navy during the mid-1950s. He was an officer in charge of 5-inch antiaircraft artillery on the USS Saratoga, which was brand-new at that time. He didn't have anything to do with aviation, but he said that every time the carrier went on a cruise, about one-fifth of their aircraft were lost to accidents. When I was around 14 or 15 years old, he walked into the family room when I was watching 'The Bridges of Toko-Ri' on television. Brubaker and his wingman were trying to land on the carrier, and my Dad said, "I'm sorry Jeff, I can't watch this. I've seen too many guys get splattered up against a bulkhead." I don't know if carrier aviation is safer now, but my Dad was there during the age of the earliest carrier jets, and flying them was really dangerous.
“Take my Breath Away” was playing when I first met my husband in 1986 🥰
Goose hit the canopy when they ejected.
Great reaction. You really took the time to appreciate the aerial shots and arguably one of the greatest intros of all time which is often overlooked.
You have to remember during the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union were in an arms race, these cat and mouse games were common in different branches of the military and still continues today.
In Top Gun Maverick, there isn’t an obvious enemy mentioned to keep it politically correct but if you look at current events, one can assume that it would likely be Iran. This brilliantly becomes convenient for the plot of Top Gun Maverick regarding the ending (commandeering a F-14 Tomcat) which would technically be plausible as guess who is the only country to still operate the F-14? You guessed it, Iran. As a matter of fact, one of the reasons they were scrapped and retired from the US Navy amongst budget cuts and high operational costs, is so that Iran couldn’t get their hands on spare parts forcing Iran to manufacture their own parts to keep their fleet airworthy.
Michael Ironside, Jester in this film, has played in many movies and voices one of my favorite game characters, Sam Fisher in the Splinter Cell game franchise. I am seriously envious of his voice.
Who has the best pilots? The Navy, IMHO. But I was in the Navy, so ... Seriously though, I grew up near an Air Force base. My father was Air Force. My uncle and mother worked at the Air Force base and my uncle is a pilot. The Air Force has an exhibition team called the Thunderbirds. The Navy has an exhibition team called the Blue Angels. My uncle worked with the Thunderbirds at his Air Force base, but the first time he saw the Blue Angels, their maneuvers, and their training, even he said he was in awe of their skill and precision. It's much harder to land on a carrier than on land. Takes a lot of skill and training
It's a rare movie that works without a bad guy or really any real conflict. It was just with himself, for the most part.
You can see how they built of the first movie now. It was an epic blockbuster film in the cinema when it dropped. It does know how you make us all so patriotic. 👍
Risky Business was his first film. We were hyped in the Navy during the filming up till it was shown at the Base Theater.
As demonstrated in the awesome "Band Of Brothers" mini-series, during wartime there's no way to take time off when those around you get killed, and the military always trains as if it IS wartime.
You asked if the USAF or the USN has better pilots. The AF says the AF does, and the Navy says the NAVY does.
Kabir, it seems like you didn't catch that Goose smacked into the canopy during ejection.
Art Scholl was a avitation stunt man for the movie and died trying to recover from a inverted flat spin during the making of the movie. Some of the scenes are impossible to do in those planes. The movie is still amazing and one of my favorites though.
if aircraft fly in close formation they could show up on radar as one or two aircraft
Favorite movie all-time!
Funfact: There was a typo in the script noone called out. Instead of Mig-28, a plane that doesn't exist, it was supposed to be a Mig-29. Migs are Russian made planes. The baddies were supposed to be North Korean, but they later changed them to generic nameless baddies. Since they couldn't get real Mig'29's for the film, the used F-5 Freedom fighters instead. The jets the instructors used at Top Gun were A4 Skyhawks.
Way better they didn't use "MIG29" I hoped it was intentional they used an even number
I had been wondering what planes Jester and Viper were flying. Thank you!
"Hard deck" simulates the ground level, so going under that is the same as crashing your aircraft. "I wanted Jester so bad I took a nosedive to the bedrock".
Top gun had more than just Tom Cruise. Val Kilmer, Tim Robinson (Shawshank Redemption), and greats like Michael Ironside, Tom Skerrit.
I saw this movie so much, I knew every line of the movie!
At the end Merlin is Tim Robbins from Shawshank redemption
you must have blinked when they ejected goose went up and hit the top flying off before it was out of the way
Those “MiG-28” planes are actually F-5E “Tiger II” Freedom Fighters.
Merlin is Andy Dufresne from Shawshank!
Now for HOT SHOTS a comedy parody of this. HILARIOUS
Top Gun was probably the best recruitment video for the Navy and Air Force... set them up for the next decade.
His love interest in Top Gun Maverick is actually referenced in the original if you noticed it near the beginning. She’s the General’s daughter.
Thought it was a nice touch they did for the sequel.
Admiral…no generals in the navy
@@flyflorida2001 Thanks for the correction.
Fanstastic movie! I felt like I was there😱. Great reaction Kabir!
I saw this back in the day, and think the 2nd movie is great also. Tom Cruise is a legend.
@4:25 or so when you asked why the MiG was trying to instigate, we need to go back to the time period. It was the Cold War and the Russians and United States were constantly poking at each other like this. Russian planes would fly over US ships/bases and pilots made a game of nerves out of doing provocative maneuvers at each other.
As far as I know, it still goes on today and isn’t limited to aircraft. Submarines play the game too.
I think part of it was to try to provoke the other side into shooting first, so you could be justified in responding. Whoever shot first would likely be starting a war.
The 'enemy' planes in this movie are American made F-5 fighters that the US did not use, but that many nations bought. The fancy camera in the opening scene is probably a Hasselblad double lens reflex camera.
You are correct that this movie was the ultimate commercial for THE NAVY, not the Air force. I joined the Navy in 86 during top gun mania. We routinely came across Russian ships,subs and planes and dueling without firing was the norm
The "Mig 28" is actually an American F-5 painted black with Russian markings, used to simulate enemy aircraft.
At the time this film was made the F-14 was the best “interceptor” in existence. But the US government canceled the better engine that was alwas planed to replace the “temporary engine” for budgetary reasons so it alwas had engines that would stall out easier then they should. This movie was made with cooperation of the Navy so they couldn’t directly say the engine stalled because it was a POS that was supposed to have been replaced but was kept around for budget reasons hence the bit about flying through the wash of the other aircraft (which combine with the garbage engine could have resulted in a flame out, )
Also in this movie they reference Maverick getting in trouble in the past with an Admirals daughter. And apparently the Female lead in the TopGun Maverick (Jennifer Connelly) is supposed to be the admirals daughter referenced in this movie.
You mean Penny Benjamin? It’s confirmed. Even Goose whispered her name when they were both being chewed out by Stinger himself.
"Top Gun" was released around the time, that the Navy finally began to put the "permanent" engines which didn't have the propensity to flameout, due to flying into jet wash. If the Navy hadn't already decided to replace the engines, I imagine that Goose's death although fictional, would have left them no choice but to do so.
Average age of the Flight Deck Crew on a Carrier is ~23. One of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
I spent most of my summers as a youth in Mira Mesa (Scripps Ranch) CA. My uncle headed up the P.T.(physical training) program@MiraMar. Was a junior lifeguard at the pool on base. Use too play basketball/racquetball/tennis/workout with many "Top Gun " pilots. Played volleyball on that same court, they've got a nice golf course too(I've ran around the whole thing more times than you have fingers or toes lol).
Jester pilot was the teacher in STARSHIP TROOPERS
One of the best movies all time
"take my breath awaaaAAAAaaaayyy" ...you have the voce of an angel, brotha!! lol
3:35 The "MiG 28" is a fictional aircraft. The Soviet MiG Design Bureau designated its fighters with odd-numbered designations. The "MiG 28" fighters were based on surplus American F-5s as a platform.
The captain of the carrier is the principal from BACK TO THE FUTURE
Not one of his first films but its the one that sent him from star to super global star. The outsiders, Risky Business, Taps and All the right moves are some good early Tom Cruise films.
Charlie's character is based on a woman who eventually became one of the top civilian officials in the Department of Defense
I'm impressed Kabir. You get some key elements better than many others. You're a smart fellow. Cheers.
The black pilot was in DIE HARD and WALKER TEXAS RANGER with Chuck Norris
It always amazes me how people miss goose slamming into the canopy during ejection.
Kabir said, “This movie is the ultimate commercial for the Air Force." I remember reading, when this came out, that the DoD allowed them unprecedented access, in exchange for it basically being a commercial for the military, but I can't find articles on that now. I did, however, find references to a similar arrangement for Top Gun: Maverick: "Top Gun: Maverick received support from the Department of Defense (DOD) in the form of equipment - including jets and aircraft carriers - personnel and technical expertise. This was authorized by the DOD Entertainment Media Office, which assists filmmakers in telling military stories." (Flattering military stories.) That quote's from the Washington Post.
These are Navy planes and pilots, not USAF.
@@stevedietrich8936 thanks for the correction. I’ll edit my comment, since all else is accurate and the main point stands. I actually knew it was Navy, I just latched onto AF without giving it much thought because Kabir said AF. Wasn’t my main point lol
The Navy. Hope I’m not being picky,great film though.
A pleasure to watch your reaction
Radar can't necessarily detect the number of planes if they're grouped together. It's better at this as they get closer. Also, one thing in the sequel that was new footage but an echo of the original is when Maverick is on his motorcycle parallel to the runway as a plane takes off, and he cheers.
They get them back to flying immediately for 2 reasons. First, it's the theory of getting right back on the horse after a fall. There might be some regression due to fear, but getting back in the saddle begins to build your confidence.
2nd, these guys are military pilots who are basically on the front lines of any conflict. If we went to war with someone, for real, a pilot or a RIO can't take off 30 days for grieving everytime one of their crew is lost. 😔
Early F14s had engines prone to Flame outs like that until GE replaced them.
I used to hang out at the Kansas City BBQ bar (where the Great Balls of Fire piano scene was filmed) all the time when I was stationed in San Diego.
This movie is plenty full of 80's cheese, but at its heart is a decent story about personal growth, and you are right, tge cinematography is beautiful.
The song that took the place of take my breath away, is Lady Gaga's new song Hold My Hand in Maverick Top Gun that's such an awesome video such a good song too it's called Hold My Hand
Three ways the aerial scenes were shot, with models for explosions, the simulators on a gimbal for actors close ups and second unit shot the stunt flying with navy pilots flying and then match the shots.
The reason they kept sending Maverick up was because a combat pilot typically won’t get downtime after their unit loses a pilot.
But my opinion the first film was better I just found the characters more believable.
23:20=Goose's head gets slammed, leading to his death. Anyway, it's always dicey watching the sequel to a film before the original. Best to avoid, if possible, I think.
Aircraft flying in very tight formation, or behind radar line of acquisition, can appear to be one or two larger aircraft. It was used tactically in operations over Vietnam when the US was losing many B52 bombers. A flight of F4 Phantom II Fighter/Interceptors would fly very close, at similar altitude, along a common flight-path, and carry the same ECM (electronics jamming pods) that the bombers would carry....
NVA MIGs would move to intercept - what they thought were much larger, slower, defenseless targets - only to realize they'd been drawn in by a flight of hunter-killer fighters out for blood. By the time they realized their error, it was usually too late for them. They couldn't outrun or outclimb the F4s. Their only defense was to bolt for the deck - trying to draw the American pilots down into highly concentrated AAA and SAM defenses.
According to some accounts - with gun camera video corroborating - some MIG pilots would bail out the moment they were targeted.
goose hit the canopy
The MIG 28’s are actually F-5’s
Who has the best pilots? Depends on the mission. Plain and simple. This movie was about the Navy. Air Force has other missions to do, as do Army helicopters, not to mention the Marines also have pilots that are some of the best in the world. It all depends on the mission to be accomplished.
Tom Cruise is the GOAT...He trained to hold his breath for 6 minutes in an underwater scene for one of the the Mission Impossible movies, so they could film the entire scene in one shot.....
It was pretty cool working on board unless your berthing is under the landing area and you work nights. I learned to sleep with earplugs.
ejections happen at over 750 mph, so goose shot into the canopy at the speed of sound from like 20-30 ft out. dude would’ve been dead instantly.
The aerial shots were taken from a slower Lear jet aircraft..
The scene where they kissed the first time was improvised by Tom. He forgot his line so he kissed her.
Great reaction! It definitely shows the dangers and risks in flying fighter jets. Being bias, but the Navy is the best. They do all that the Air Force does plus land on a carrier, day and night, in all weather with a pitching deck. Fly Navy!
These guys are not in the USAF but USN. The Air Force does not land planes on aircraft carriers.
Kabir like the change invested in this video
I saw it mentioned, but Goose conked his coco on the canopy when they ejected. Hence the blood.
And Charlie said in an article when the new movie came out, that she declined a role because she hadn't really worked in years and that her weight kept her from feeling comfortable being on screen again. More or less...
Kabir in the Royal Navy goes to TOPGUN! Topgun 3!!
22:58 The original Pratt and Whitney TF-30 engines were sensitive to air disruption and the turbulence from crossing that high energy wake caused them to suffer compressor stalls... basically the pressurized air behind the compressor overpowers it and "blows" out the front, causing a thrust variance or in this case completely shutting the engine down. In this condition there was a tremendous chance of upsetting the aircraft... which happened, here and in real life, and wasn't recoverable because thrust couldn't be re-established in time.
The F-14B received GE F-110 engines as a modification and was greatly improved.
Such a great movie! Love your reactions to movies!
The RIO officer in the back can eject the pilot and himself.