Top Gun Confidential: 32 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know About the Movie
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Who else did Paramount want to play Maverick before the went with Tom Cruise? Who did Kelly McGillis date off screen during the shooting of "Top Gun"? How did the F-14 Tomcat pilot manage to keep the aircraft carrier in the frame while performing the climbing roll maneuver? What other bands were asked to record "Danger Zone" before Kenny Loggins agreed?
These any many other rare movie facts are revealed in this episode. - บันเทิง
My future wife and I each invited one of our friends to see Top Gun when it was released. It was a blind date for our friends! My friend Andy was quite a nerd, and he announced after the movie that he was going to become a Naval Aviator. We laughed at him. He DID become a Naval Aviator and flew Greyhounds and Vikings. Andy retired in 2013 as a Commander and now flies for an airline.
My father was an RIO in Phantoms. He also went through the Fighter Weapons School, which I didn't know until Top Gun came out. He used to describe the film as one of the greatest comedies ever made. Oddly, he loved The Final Countdown, probably because that was supposed to be unbelievable.
In one of the trailers for Top Gun 2, the camera comes up over Point Loma and Fort Rosecrans cemetery. You can see my parents' graves in the shot.
My folks are at Ft Rosecrans also...placed there well after Top Gun was made.
I was stationed at VS 41 North Island and visited Ft Rosecrans cemetery every so often. A beautiful place, and what a view!
I was in 6th grade when the movie came out and lived and breathed the movie and the soundtrack. I went to a Catholic grade school and once they found out I could play the piano by ear fairly well, I was tapped to play the piano for several of the weekend church services. One particular Sunday, whatever hymn I was playing ended about halfway through Communion and I had to improvise. I played the Top Gun Anthem to fill the remaining time. Although I got compliments on what was thought to be such a nice sounding piano instrumental piece, the only ones who had any idea what I had done were a few classmates who happened to be there. Once in awhile if I run into one, I’m reminded of when I played the Top Gun Anthem in church!
you played the Top Gun Anthem at Mass? I love it ! Well it IS very uplifting! very innovative
"Quoting any line from the movie earns you a $5 fine." Classic. Thanks Ward for another great video.
Ward, before Bozo retired he was a pilot at the Airline I work for and was (is) a good friend. He was as respected at the airline as he was in the Navy.
Good to hear. Thanks, Joe.
There are a few ex-fighter pilots I follow on TH-cam (obviously including Ward). But I always wonder, if when they complete their "Fini-flight" or, final flight, is it an emotion of sorrow, because you'll never 'strap the airplane on' again? Or do you guys pretty much get it out of your systems by the time your last flight day comes?
As a former airdale and Enterprise crewman, I saw Top Gun with several buddies who were civilians and knew nothing about the navy or naval aviation. while they were sitting in their theatre seats going gaga, I am just shaking my head over the sheer cheesiness of it all. That said, the aerial cinematography was stunning, and the footage of flight ops on the big E in the film's opening brought back a lot of memories of operations in the Indian Ocean during my time aboard.
It is funny how Matthew Modine refused to act in a film that was about the military, and then 4 years later portrays a B-17 pilot in Memphis Belle.
Roger the cheese and the Hellywood hypocrisy. I made it through the first few minutes of the flick before fighting off regurgitation at the sheer childish representation of the Navy, then returned the VCR tape back to Wally World. I'm sure it had some good photography, etc. but it sure didn't represent the Navy I knew back in Nam. Still haven't seen the whole thing, and have no desire to do so.
I was onboard the Enterprise when the movie was filmed. The production crew had taken over a significant amount of our squadron's spaces. I was with VAQ-133 or the Wizards.
Thank you for your service ... my son was an aircraft maintainer / painter with VAQ-133 Wizards at Whidbey Island and twice to Bagram. Probably after your time. His name was Jeremy and sadly, he is no longer with us.
@@hangtime_31 Condolences, Hangtime. Thank you for your service. I'm retired military and my daughter is an Army wife. All family members serve. The wife, the children, the parents and grand parents. Hats off to you for being a great dad. A Salute to Jeremy. God bless you all.
Nice, I was born 13 years ago and in a wrong country but im glad TOP GUN MAVERICK is coming up next year.
I remember hearing one of the actors got in some trouble and got himself kicked off the Big E?
@@magnusgoebel9869 Ease up man, we can't all be americans. It's where your heart is that counts. What's a "wrong country" btw. eastern europe?
A friend of mine at the time the movie came out tried to convince a group of us that the F-14 roll after catapult launch was necessary because the Tomcat could not retract the landing gear flying straight and level and had to go inverted in order to raise the gear. We gave him a pretty hard time for being so ludicrous. Good times. Thanks Ward, still loving your channel.
Ya'll should have given him the call sign 'dipshit'
@@ChiIeboy Ha! It's been a little while but I have no doubt it was one of the many call signs we assigned to him. 😉
As you said Mooch, Cruise got sick in the back seat. He told the story on BBC's Top Gear.
As told by Cruise on the show, he was feeling sick and as he reached down to the leg pocket to get the bag Bozo loaded up the jet in the positive, and Cruise couldn't sit up to take care of business. When Bozo unloaded the airplane Cruise asked, "why did you do that" and according to Cruise Bozo replied, "well, they don't calm me Bozo for nothing".
Cruise also owns and flies a P-51D.
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Awesome. The "goofs" always get more attention than positive stuff. I grew up watching it over and over on my grandfathers Betamax. Got the DVD/Blurays. Got the hat from Miramar Museum Gift Shop. Went on to get my PPL at 17, couldn't join The Navy but got Mech Eng. degree and work for aerospace company very closely related to the Tomcat. It may have only been a movie and had its faults but it was undeniably inspirational.
Betamax!?!? There is a blast from the past
Indeed....my father was part of the team at Grumman Bethpage that helped developed the attack computer program (to which he could strangle the writer who wrote, " I got tone!" as well as be willing to eject Tom Cruise put without giving it a second thought), from Project 303 to F-14D and Lunar Excursion Module, its great to see the best of The Grumman Ironworks honored for all posterity.
I absolutely agree with you, is a favourite among my siblings, myself and our aged mother.
At my fire station, when Top Gun came out 'A Shift' crew all went out and bought Aviator helmets. Call signs, painted up helmets and aviator sun glasses. The Captain's first shift back from vacation, looked over at the pump operator/driver of the attack engine applied his aviator helmet and told the Captain, "Buckle Up, I feel the need for speed". I cannot repeat here what the Captain said here on open form. The things we did in our youth, we can laugh. We had one fighting team with that shift. One big family. Hampton Fire Department Station 1, Hampton Virginia. Late 1980s
You guys are great!! Just like F-14 crews, like Ward Carroll, you find 'em hot and leave 'em wet. ;-)
@@howardg2435 My station’s motto was Through the door and on the floor. Been in fires melted or singed gear to be replaced pulling people out. Like Ward, fun stories now. Water tight duck’s butt in the mission.
Man it's a shame we can't do that stuff anymore on the job
What a Great Story!! 😂😂
Take My Breath Away was also originally recorded by Martha Davis and The Motels. The producer wasn’t happy with the result, and he thought back to working with Berlin on No More Words.
I was 14 and saw Top Gun it got the flying bug in me going. I became a pilot at 21
The audio was so good on Top Gun, it was considered a listening reference for surround sound HiFi systems which was taking off in the late 80s early 90s
Add me to the list! The first 10 minutes of the film in particular.
Nice episode, Mooch. The $5 fine for quoting at the real Top Gun is what got me laughing. I would imagine the cost in embarrassment is even higher. ;-)
I laughed out loud at that!
I bet that the fine jar is humungous!
I would get destroyed by that. I put goofy movie quotes into my daily language without even meaning to. Half the time I don't even know what movie the lines come from.
@@nomar5spaulding I'm an airline mechanic. If we had a jar between us and the pilots of Top Gun and Airplane! quotes, it would be a sizable kitty, indeed!
I'd just keep a roll of 5's in my back pocket lol
My U.S. history teacher in high school was one of the guys walking around getting ready for takeoff in the opening scene of the movie. We watched top gun three times in that class.
Astronaut Scott Altman, who’s middle finger is in the film in the opening Mig scene, had his first job working for my Grandpa and Dad trimming Christmas trees at Talbott’s Tree Farm!
Thanks for the great content Ward! Your knowledge and love of aviation really make this channel a joy to watch. Looking forward to reading Punk’s Fight and Punk’s Wing.
I know it’s cheesy and has a lot of fakeries, but I still get goosebumps when I hear that theme
There still using the same cheese tunes for the new one and those dumb ass looking high school football helmets again. The new maverick is so bad at prescreening they went back to cut out the first 13 minutes, as it turned out to be just dumb as fk. So Cruise has to go back and figure out what to do with the trashed scenes.
If you don't already have it.. ya gotta get the Blu-Ray.. Dog-fight changer ;)
A lot of entertainment is cheesy but I sometimes laugh when I see major technical goofs. Top Gun was never billed as a documentary, so enjoy!
it's just a movie ... relax !
I get goosebumps during the first few minutes of the movie, before Kenny Loggins song. The songs ok but just love that opening with carrier ops.
Nevermind the negative statements about Top Gun. At least the movie proved that having a good director, a good set of actors and actresses plus the cooperation of the US Navy Department. You definitely get a blockbuster movie. Now it's up to the sequel to surpass the domestic and international box office success of the original. There's one fun fact about the movie. The scene where Val Kilmer coughed the word "bullshit". Everyone in the hangar laughed spontaneously. It was an adlib but director Tony Scott liked it and kept it in the film.
I watched the movie outside of MCAS Beaufort SC. We all laughed so hard at it! It was an amazing experience to be in the theater with probably 90% air wingers. The only other time, was Full Metal Jacket..I’m so glad I experienced those moments while there....
Ward another fine job, I came off my first cruise with the Forestall the summer of 86, my father a WWII Marine wanted to see the movie with me. He loved the flying in the movie and we both loved it. I explained that some of the sequences were utterly wrong but put in for Hollywood my father rightly replied, “Hollywood has to entertain”.
FYI I’m out of the hospital and on the mend, thank you for your kind thoughts.
Hey I am sure as a Marine your Dad's eyes rolled so hard in his head it almost knock him out, the 1st time he saw John Wayne's the Sand of Iwo Jima after being in the USMC for a few years 🤣 . But his very Marine common sense attitude, hey, that's Hollyweird kick in and he had a good laugh . For some crazy reason I never saw Sands of Iwo Jima till I was a senior in high school and was interested due to family history .My mom's bother Jimmy was Marine Scout on Iwo Jima and was killed on Iwo a couple of months after his 19th B day. I saw Sands after reading Helmet for My Pillow , The Old Breed, Good Bye Darkness and Semper Fi Mac and a few more fairly unromantic books about Marine experiences in the Pacific War and Korea. Soooo Sands of Iwo Jima came off as post WWII soap opera schmaltz with 10 minutes of the battle for Iwo Jima tack on as a after though . I wasn't impressed, with time my feelings have mellow and now view Sands of Iwo Jima as one of John Wayne's numerous C- to B- grade movies he made before he became a big box office star . BTW glad to hear you went over the wall from the hospital and are now home .It's always great to be on the mend and getting health again .
@@cmdredstrakerofshado1159 Thank you sir and you are correct about my dad. My dad served with Lee Marvin I assure you that he had nothing kind to say about him either.
Great info Ward. The $5.00 fine for quoting lines from the movie is priceless.
I fly RC Jets and we all hate vids of models with the top gun sound track.
I have "Heater" Heatley's book I bought back in the 80's. Thank you Ward for this fascinating story!
Yup, same here. Great pics, great book
I have it, too.
I was at USNA when the movie came out a few weeks before my classes Herndon climb. I then spent the next 6-8 weeks in a sailboat and wasn't even aware of this movei until the following fall. By the time my class got to Pensacola during 2/c summer -- the staff had already incorporated "this is wrong in TopGun" into their training.
I served in VF-33 which transitioned to Tomcats before I got out. A group of us went to see the movie when it came out. I left the theater, had a 67 GTO, and felt the need for speed. Don't know how I didn't get a ticket on the way home.
Yeah and I bet you are a ACE as well lol
November 1986 I started training at Delta Air Lines after a nine year USAF tour as a T-38 instructor/flight examiner and C-5A aircraft commander. In my Delta class was Brett Zeitz, a top gun instructor who made the bar scene in the movie. But in the class after mine was Greg Dishart who was one of the “Mig” pilots in the F-5. In those days we used to train in the same little building on the same floor as the new flight attendant classes. When word got around about Greg, who looked like a movie star anyway, during the breaks on top of each hour, a flock of sweeties would swarm him in the hallway. It was something to see! We all did 35 years at Delta. Unfortunately we lost my good friend Brett Zeitz in June 2020.
Thanks, sir. Loved this one!
Also wanted to add a fun fact:
Originally, Goose was supposed to die in a midair collision during a training flight, but the Navy didn't like that...
Cool episode! I love “behind the scenes” stuff, so thanks for this one. If you haven’t read it, Dave “Bio” Baranek’s “Top Gun Days” describes a lot of the work done by the Navy for the film “Topgun”. Thanks again, sir. 🤙🏼
Hi Ward, have you ever in your career told your pilot in bulging eyes, "You're gonna do WHAT??!!!!" LOL! 🤣
Comment before watching:
"Hm, this should be a fun test.
I know a lot more than most know about Top Gun."
Edit after watching:
"Huh, I learned a lot of new things about Top Gun."
Very cool ward. Would love for you to review flight of the intruder also. Some of my shipmates were involved in that movie. Behind the scenes, very interesting.
Hard to believe Tom Cruise was so far down the list, and Kenny Loggins nailed it. We knew it was cheesy and clunky in places, but we loved the aviation scenes. Great Saturday night cinema.
Ward, another great episode. I feel like i'm relearning Top Gun (and the Tomcat) all over again. Thanks.
This was great - Thanks! I was born in May of 1981 and this has been my all-time favorite movie from childhood especially since mom finally let me watch the "whole" movie in the '90s! LOL
In about 2008 I was TDY to Tucson. Several of us were headed to Ft Huachuca & were driving past the boneyard at Davis-Monthan. There were several rows of F-14s lined up & very visible from the road. One guy asked ‘Anyone else have the ‘Danger Zone’ song running through their head?’
Good stuff Mooch. As far as the music goes I also loved Mighty Wings by Cheap Trick and the opening scene from the intro credits to Danger Zone , Best opening scene ever. TURN AND BURN 😎👍🇺🇸
Loved this episode! Top Gun was the movie that first got me interested in aviation. But in those times I had no chance to pay for flying time . Many years after, I became a pilot, and still love that movie I discovered when i was a teenager.
I saw that movie on May 16, 1986 and it played on 3 of 4 screens at the theatre. I bought the tickets in advance and it was a good thing, because the movie was sold out from that Wednesday throughout the weekend. When I left the movie, the crowd was so pumped up strangers were exchanging their opinions. I knew immediately that movie was going to be a blockbuster. The only people who didn't know that were, of course, the critics.
$5 is bill I’d gladly, regularly pay for well placed lines that get a good laugh.
I enjoyed your synopsis of the original Top Gun movie and I am awaiting the release of the sequel. I grew up in Naval aviation and my brother-in-law Darrell "Condor" Gary flew sorties over Vietnam as an RIO (VF-51). He eventually went to Top Gun for training. Then returned to Top Gun as a pilot, sent to USS Coral Sea. He eventually became a Top Gun instructor. This all occurred during the protracted Vietnam era. I have and read the book written by Captain Dan Pederson (Ret), and enjoyed it. But then, I have a family connection.
One of our F4 RIOs was in the movie in the aggressor squadron. You’ll see his name in the credits. Dennis “Sunshine” Dilucente. He made sure that we knew.
Only strange thing in the movie IMO was ACM over a desert resulting in a ejection and rescue at sea. Only in Hollywood
RIP Art Schull, Ive never heard that, adds a reverence feeling to the movie for me now for me, man that hit my heart.
Amazing video Ward!! And wait, so the co-producing company Tennet Pictures,..is a CHINESE company , that’s is co-producing a US Navy fighter pilot movie thst has the most access and cooperation to thr US Navy of any movie ever ??? A company that in China, the government is very much involved in ALL businesses , certainly US Hollywood movies and most certainly a military movie that gets them premier access to our aircraft carriers and fighter jets, training programs etc? A “non-biased” company thst required thr Taiwanese flag be taken off Maveriks flight jacket? Hmmm??? Wow , so interesting.
Rudder Rudder Rudder is what my instructor used to holler from the back seat of a cetrabia when learning Aerobatics. Most people don't have the slightest Idea just how physically demanding aerobatic flying is. Loops Rolls Barrel Rolls even spins didn't bother me but being slammed side to side in snap rolls was just way too much. A Saturday morning hangover didn't help either. Damn glad those days are long gone.
Not the Flying the hangovers. Another great Ward (Mooch) Carroll video. Thanks.
Great episode Mooch. Have you thought about getting “Heater” Heatley onboard for an interview? The Cutting Edge had pride of place on my bookshelf as a kid.
While in VF-2 and aboard the USS Ranger fron 87 to 89, the showed that movie ALL the time. When it was on, our pilots would sit and watch the movie. We wore out the audio cassette while playing " Danger Zone." Proud to have worked on that bird.
The most important things inquiring minds want to know Mooch: Is the plaque for the alternates really down in the ladies room? 😂
That’s actually a clever line in the movie, Maverick meets Charlie in the ladies room, and he gets her at the end of the movie after losing competition to Iceman.
Only one way to find out 🤣😂
Mooch, you mentioned Chuck Heatley. If you look closely at his Dress Whites in that scene, he has an Air Force Commendation Medal after his Navy Commendation Medal. He earned that while flying at Tonopah as a MiG pilot with the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron "The Red Eagles."
To me the real star of the movie is the f14 tomcat, ot is a beautiful, sleek and fast jet, I am in awe of them every time I see one, now they are only on museum ships.
Watching this with my 4 month old son, hope he gets as excited about Top Gun as I do. Thanks for the video, great channel Mr. Carroll.
I did not know both Ranger and Enterprise were the carriers in this movie. I served in Enterprise from 1974-1977 and Ranger from 1982-1986. Thanks for a most informative video.
I came home high as 5 people one night and saw the trailer for Top Gun. The next morning I drove to the recruiter and enlisted without telling my parents. After basic I was assigned to the newly commissioned Theodore Roosevelt and became a Aviation Ordinanceman 3rd class (AO3) and got out just before Desert Storm. That movie single-handedly changed the course of my life. When you said it increased the recruitment by 500% I chuckled. I was one of them. Liked and subbed
The best bit of these Top Gun clips is the barely suppressed smirk on Ward's face the WHOLE way through. A mix of "They actually made a movie about my old day job!" and "79 egregious errors and counting..." Keep 'em coming!
Liked you and your books but now - - - YOU ARE THE BEST!!! Fantastic video post. Please keep up the GREAT WORK!
Theme still one of the awesomest electric guitar-piano combo ever.
Please do a show about Navy Helmets, the art, everything. I heard the Topgun Hgu-33 of Maverick sold at auction for $76,000!
I still have my copy of The Cutting Edge. The photography inspires me to this day.
Great facts and a great movie despite it’s flaws. Took my then girlfriend on a first date to see the original in 86, still married to this day and patiently waiting for Top Gun “Maverick” to be released next May. I still have the original VHS but no player to play it on 😂 can’t bear to part with the tape. One of the best soundtracks in cinematic history, second only to Gladiator IMO. There are a lot of people that must be questioning their decisions not to be involved with it’s making 🤪
I just love the way you breakdown all your topics you discuss, so detail and easy to understand, thank you for your service and all that you do!!🙏🏾😊
I first watched top gun when I was maybe 2 (1995) it inspired my love for aviation, 26 years later I'm working on my PPL with hopes to start my own aviation company
Fantastic video as always, keep up the good work and stay awesome!
I met "Heater" Heatly when the Ranger (I think it was) was on it's final cruise. I already had a copy of his book "Cutting Edge". I never picked up that he was in that scene in TopGun - classic.
The $5 fine was the cherry on top. Great video!
I always like the behinmd the scenes facts about a movie I like., such as actors/actresses who were considered for a role but turned it down for various reasons. Also, in movies based on true events, I like learning about what the actual people involved in those events (if still living) think about a movie about them and the event. Great video!
I was lucky enough to be working and living in Hollywood when 'Top Gun' came out and saw an immaculate print shown at The Chinese Theater......[most Hollywood] showings are always immaculate.....It was fantastic in my opinion........as a photographer, I really appreciated the deck sequences with the use of filters and over cranked film technique .......Well done Tony Scott........
Any Top Gun movie quotes at the real Top Gun gets you a 5 dollar fine, I almost spit my food out laughing.
Totally wasn’t expecting a good laugh, awesome.
great video Mr.Carrol. I sat here and enjoyed my coffee and this video. Great way to start my day. Thank you sir and Semper Fi!
I remember when Top Gun came out. All my friends knew that I was a PR and recently discharged from the Navy. Man they had a million questions. My reply to them was “While it was a somewhat entertaining movie, I never saw anything like that in the Navy!”
I still prefer The Final Countdown.
I find that strange; that rolling right as you said (at 5:53) would cause the nose to swing the other way...adverse yaw (if I recall correctly) why would it do that when the F-14 uses roll spoilers instead of absent ailerons; I thought the influence of the roll spoilers would prevent the adverse yaw that you are mentioning...very interesting phenomenon you pointed out there.
Spoilers assisted differential Stabs. Huge stabs, as big as an A-4's wings.
thanks for mentioning Chuck Heatley and his pictures, which accompanied the original article in California magazine. I see you have his book. He is also mentioned in "Constant Peg", the story of the Tonopah Mig squadron.
My supervisor was in the closing scene on the Ranger, he was a trouble shooter at the time. I've had the privilege of meeting Dave Bio Baranek, listed in the credits at a book signing. Both VF-51 and VF-111 were in our airwing on their final deployments before being decommissioned.
Great video award. Lots of “bad choices” by the “talent” originally cast for the film. I was a sophomore at ASU after this movie came out. My dorm mate was going through a breakup with a girl back East. He played that song “Every breath you take” constantly, day and night. It was something that apparently helped him through the break up. It did not help my studies however so the cassette found its way to the bottom a the swimming pool. To this day nobody knows how it got in the pool :)
Finding out that Nicolas Cage didn't want to do Top Gun is kind of hilarious when you consider that some years later he did a movie called Firebirds, which could best be summarized as a helicopter sized version of Top Gun.
Amazing info as always Ward!
This is great stuff!!!!
Absolutely amazing episode, Ward.
Your narration, the investigation behiind all the fun facts and all the photos revealing those small details for the uninitiated.
Loved this one so much!!!!.
I couldn't push a bigger like than the one on offer.
Absolutely brilliant one!.
Ha!! I was wondering why your Les Paul suddenly went MIA from its stand around the 11:35 mark, Ward!! Jim C.
Great time to see this. They showed Top Gun on the deck off the USS Lexington, in Corpus Christi Texas, a couple weeks ago as a fundraiser for the museum. Really cool because the F-14 from the buzz the tower scene is also on the deck of the Lexington, painted like it was shown in the movie.
Great video, Mooch!! Thanks!!
Still one of the best soundtracks ever and is in all my on the go music devices The Top Gun Theme still gives me goose bumps, epic. Great vid and cheers.
August of 1986, I was a semi-homeless kid in Austin. My high school football coach told me I was never going to be a good enough linebacker to play my way into college. I dropped out of school, smoked a joint, and watched Top Gun THREE TIMES in a tow. I walked into the Navy Recruiting Station in the mall and told them I wanted to fly. AO2 Terry Harrison rolled his eyes, and scheduled me for the ASVAB. I'm smarter on paper than I really am, so I scored well enough to qualify for AW A School. I turned 17 in September, and the rest was history.
No where in the movie OR the recruiters office do they mention how much time I'd have flying a buffer.
Thanks again Ward for the fun facts. Keep up the good work.
In the beginning, an officer says "hello Scott" to another officer. Scott was my back seater and a great guy. We were with VF-114 on the "E" during filming. At one other point, an A-4 (flown by "Death" Ray) was chasing an F-14 at low level when he goes through about 90 degrees of roll. The A-4 has aerodynamic slats and he had a "slat departure" at that point. Said it "scared the sh*t out of him"! I'm sure it did, as they even get your attention at 20,000 feet. The early "daily's" had footage taken from the pilot's view that was shaky, as the airplane was in buffet (not a sideboard on which food is served), which the aircrews all thought was cool. The videographers didn't use the footage, sadly.
Awesome Ward. The last fact was the best...$5 fine for any line at Top Gun....The active navy pilot bios were very cool..
After 35 years Those 10 or so musical notes still raise Goose bumps and send shivers up my spine. WOW
Love hearing that there is a fine for anyone quoting Top Gun sayings at the real Top Gun
I'd love to see you borrow an idea from your TH-cam mentor and create a "What makes this plane great" series. While there are many videos on military aircraft, few, if any are told by fighter pilots. Keep up the great work!!
That's a cool idea, Ken.
LOve that too.
Wow, this is the first I'm hearing that someone died in the production of Top Gun.
It’s in the end credits.
That would be a hell of a podcast, talking to the "alternates" about how they would have directed iconic films or played iconoc characters.
Excellent, informative video!!
Hi Ward. Almost all of those facts were news to me. Now... what do I do with that information? My head is already full!
Heater's gracious and beautiful wife Kay headed the contract group that made training materials for the TOPGUN classes, including each instructor's custom call-sign cartoon. She had her hands full and did a great job.
You use that information to wow the person next to you in checkout lines.
Interesting video. Thanks Ward
"Talk to me Goose!", "Time To buzz the Tower!" "She's lost that loving feeling." "It's classified"
Nice to learn more about my favorite movie
Art Scholl did the stunt flying in the Cessna 150 in the movie Iron Eagle when Doug Masters raced Knotcher through The Snake.
Great info! Thanks for breaking it all down!
Incidentally Stevie Stevens is Billy Idols '' guitarist ..
Well researched and very interesting Commander, Cheers and Bravo......
I was AE fresh out of “A” school and reported to vf-124 framp for training in January 86’ and on to vf-51 several weeks later. The base was still buzzing about the “Top Gun” until the movie came out. We were all very proud to be a intricate part of the f14 community. Most people wouldn’t know f14s existed without “top gun” and folks like yourself. Lots of good memories.
I was in VF-11, sister squadron to VF-51 Tomcatters. My shipmates didn't even know who Felix the Cat was.
Did you mean VF-31?
@@get2dachoppa249 Yes, yes I did.
I had the pleasure of having a tour by a couple crew members of the Ranger when she was in Vancouver BC in the late 70's. I met them in A Canadian Legion in North Vancouver, bought them many beers and they invited me and a few of the guys for a tour. She was an amazing ship!!!
“Outstanding” … Keep up the good work ! 🇺🇸🦅 👍👍👍👍👍