Thats pretty arrogant considering the company youre in, Viper tells Maverick. Iceman's vb double has a different hair style than Iceman. Maverick then faces off against TOPGUN instructor LCDR Rick "Jester" Heatherly in his first sortie, eventually defeating him, but violates two rules of engagement in the process: he shoots down Jester below the hard deck (IE "underground"), then shortly after his victory, he buzzes the tower in a fly-by. Jester and Viper read Maverick's report card which says, 'He's a wildcard. Profession While riding the motorcycle along the runway, 'Maverick' uses his left hand to pull the clutch. Flies by the seat of his pants.' It could end my career. Just later on, he reveals the whole encounter to all the others who may not have security clearance to hear the story. Top Gun's more personal story about Maverick's growth and change speaks for itself, though, and has made it one of the most consistently popular '80s movies over the decades since. There would also be a Deputy Commander Air Wing, also a Captain, senior to Stinger. Additionally, the radar apparatus of the F14 is located in the nose of the aircraft, and therefore only scans in a 60 degree arc, not the 360 degree sweep shown, which would pose a radiation hazard to the crew sitting only a few feet behind it. Maverick But there will be others. If you had to go into battle, would you want him with you? Despite being cleared of any wrongdoing by the board of inquiry, Maverick feels guilty over Goose's death and his flying skill begins to diminish. Maverick's sunglasses are (not) on when Slider picks him up after they return to the carrier. What's on your mind? Hollywood and Wolfman are forced to eject when their craft is crippled, and a catapult malfunction forces Maverick to provide The Cavalry single-handedly. As Cougar is seen "handing in his wings," the chances are that he never flew for the Navy again. During Cougar and Merlin's approach to the carrier, the approach controller makes a call to their aircraft, "Cougar, you are well below glide path at 3 quarters of a mile. This was an Egyptian-Israeli peacekeeping mission which never involved fighter aircraft. The whole thing was made Classified Information because it took place "over the wrong line on some map," so Maverick has not learned until now that his father died a hero, performing a (USN) Fighter Weapons School is known as "TOPGUN" all one word. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. The 'RIOs as second-class citizens' vibe left the community with the F-4. Also, F-14 crews were trained to, time and conditions permitting, actually pull the canopy jettison handle before pulling the ejection handles, thus giving the canopy even further time to safely clear the aircraft. In the Vietnam era, her fighters were F-8Es. established and the fighter makes a clearing turn parallel base WebMaverick visits Viper (who flew with Maverick's father in Vietnam), and Viper tells him the truth about his fatherand that he can graduate with his Top Gun class if he wants. When turning in his wings at the beginning of the film, Cougar talks about 'almost orphaning' his new baby daughter. Top Gun's naval flight school might not seem like the perfect place for a deep exploration of personal growth, but it does all hold a deeper meaning. In Viper's first briefing, Slider at first has the two bars of a lieutenant senior grade on his collar. During the graduation party, Viper calls Maverick, Iceman (and his RIO Slider), and Hollywood (and his RIO Wolfman) to deal with a crisis situation, in which the SS Layton had become disabled and lost in hostile territory. The center of the story at the pilot training school is a series of competitions that lead to the awarding of the "Top Gun" trophy. In the opening scene when all planes take off, it is sunrise. Maverick: He was my R.I.O., my responsibility. In reality, such an unauthorized act is a violation of Federal Aviation Regulations and he would have lost his wings. Maverick Stinger with the rank of Commander, appears to be in charge of everything throughout -- he asks the controller which pilots are on duty, instructs the Alert 5 aircraft to launch, ask for more pilots to join the dogfight. That rank is too junior for a TOP GUN slot. Trivia | Just as Spike Lee's Da 5 For Maverick it is just a matter of returning "home" (Stinger's presence shows it is the same squadron as in the first act of the movie) but it makes no sense that Iceman and the others would be reassigned during a brewing crisis. The film's ending shows Maverick choosing to overcome it all, makingTop Gun's ending a happy one for the pilot, who finally fulfills his heroic potential. In NATO brevity code, the term "break" is a directive to execute a maximum-performance turn in the indicated direction. Jester Later, they suggest it's Maverick's turn at the challenge of hooking up, as though it was Goose's turn previously. When Maverick pulls him upright, Goose's mask is unhooked from the right side of his helmet. The RIO contacted the canopy as he was being propelled above and away from the stricken aircraft, breaking his leg in the process, though he nearly hit the canopy head first. When Charlie and Maverick finally kiss, it is bright sunny out, early evening. 10 men. Either obey them, or you're history. At 10:06, Cougar suffering from PTSD ripped off his oxygen mask. Viper Viper Viper Brown Viper Callsign The two fall in love. Maverick helps Cougar safely land his plane after disobeying orders to land his plane, and Cougar later turns in his wings, unwilling to go to his grave without actually meeting his own newborn child. Tom Cruise played Maverick in "Top Gun." In the opening flight scene, Cougar & Merlin are in plane #114 and Maverick & Goose are in plane #203. Vital information We were in the worst dogfight I ever dreamed of. As a result, Maverick and Goose get a special detachment which Cougar and Merlin were formerly assigned to: they are sent to Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, to participate in the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, better known as TOPGUN, where the best of the best get to learn to be even better. When the command deck officer informs Stinger that the catapults are broken and that they can't launch aircraft, the officer's lip movements don't match what he says. Okay, knock it off, gentlemen. That makes no sense as a pilot would have no control over a ballistic airplane. In the "Hit the brakes and he'll fly right by" scene in the final dog fight when he manipulates the throttle, Maverick's watch changes from a black Orfina Porche to a stainless steel Rolex Submariner. There's also an exploration of personal growth and the difficulty of conforming (especially when it's against one's nature). After the accident when Goose dies - the sequence of events includes the complete investigation of the incident, the hearing and Maverick back in the air in just a few days. Starting, 1:23:08, Viper says Maverick's father was hit, he managed to save three planes before his father was killed. Go get him." The F-14 is capable of locking on to up to six targets over thirty miles away and firing on all six targets simultaneously. After Iceman's plane is strafed for the second time, Slider says it's OK both engines are running. WebOlivia Singh. Every so often something comes along to challenge your expectations of what to expect from a particular form of entertainment. Throughout the earlier stages of Top Gun, Maverick believes that his father was killed in action due to his own inability to follow orders. The Carrier Air Traffic Control Center (CATCC) controller is sweating at 4:23. Is that clear? Viper's speech and conversation with Maverick indicate they want aggressive and arrogant pilots. The AIM-9 Sidewinder, also shown, which is still used to this day, is a short range air-to-air intercept missile that can be launched at targets up to 22 miles away. At 9:00 when Maverick & Goose are inverted over the MiG, extending their "greetings", the names printed on the F-14 are Charlie also objects to Maverick's tactics, but later admits to admiring his flying, omitting it from her reports to conceal her true feelings for Maverick. Deceased That's the way to get through the Navy pilots. (1) Failure to obey instructor's directions: making a kill below the hard deck (Maverick vs. Jester). Call the Ball." Stockdale was shot down in 1965 and spent the rest of the war as a POW. Every F-5 that appears in this movie, however, is standing in as a MiG. : When Maverick leaves Charlie's house after he has dinner with her, there is a For Rent sign in her yard (as there is when he drives by her house later in the movie), but there wasn't one when he arrived. A flat spin means has no forward airspeed as it spins towards the ground around its vertical axis. During the final dog fight, Iceman's F-14 is hit, resulting in him shutting down an engine. After Charlie hands out the dinner invitation to Maverick, Slider tells him "Crash and burn, huh, Mav?" Naval aviators in reality do not wear cowboy hats at a flight briefing (at 26:54) or eat oranges on a flight line like Hollywood did at 55:31. Neither of them are talking anything factual. His sunglasses are already on. This is probably a different plane altogether, though - it isn't that hard to paint a number on the side of an airplane. Flight crews are seen throughout the film wearing golf shirts under their flight suits. Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it. This happens at 10:12. When Stinger says "The communication ship SS Layton has become disabled, and has wandered into foreign territory" the movement of his lips clearly doesn't match what he is saying. First you've acquired enough points to show up tomorrow and graduate with your Top Gun class, or you can quit. That is not usually done. WebViper : [after the first hop with Jester ends with Maverick shooting down Jester at the hard deck and Maverick doing a fly-by near a tower] Gentlemen You had a hell of a first Top Gun The bird cage at Charlie's place disappears from behind her when 'Dock of the Bay' starts playing. One of the film's last shots shows Maverick throwing Goose's dog tags into the ocean - which, to some, might seem an odd way to honor a fallen friend. That's pretty arrogant, considering the company you're in. When Maverick and Merlin are preparing to launch for the final dogfight, one of the shots of the plane on the carrier is Iceman and Slider's F-14. They fly through the terrain,and at one point Goose even says "Watch the mountain!" The fuel gauge for the RIO in the F-14 Tomcat is only a digital read-out showing total fuel on board. Once the approach controller tells the approaching aircraft to "call the ball," Maverick's reply, for example, should have been "Ghostrider 203, Tomcat Ball, 1 Point 1." In the following scene where Maverick approaches Slider and tells him he stinks, Slider is now seated in the chair to the left of the one he was previously seated in. Interestingly, these latter two feed almost directly intoTop Gun's pro-military ideology, causing many to believe the film to be little more than propaganda. When the first images of the MIG are shown after the "unknown aircraft, inbound Mustang" call the camera angle initially is from underneath and then raises to a side-on profile of the aircraft. Near the beginning in the bar, Goose says he'd be happy just to have a woman talk dirty to him. Hollywood's plane is in front of Maverick's but when Maverick breaks away to go after Viper, it is the F-14 in front that pulls away. He got you, didn't he? Viper Jester Viper : I didn't say that. Jester Viper encourages Maverick to make his own decision about whether or not to come back to Top Gun. Viper Our flying services do this routinely; we have air-to-surface missiles that can backtrack a radar signal to its source and take out the radar set (and probably a number of members of the crew as well.) What I'm about to tell you is classified. They are not. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. At many points during the briefing prior to the first hop, you can clearly see men reflected forward in the actor's glasses, presumably crew members. Jester, as an instructor at TOPGUN, makes evasive maneuver in the A-4 using an aileron roll - not exactly an effective move in terms of creating the sort of lateral displacement that might defeat an enemy's weapons solution. When the movie was made the AM-39 Exocet was the in service missile and is only capable of a range of approximately 38Nm. And worse. As Goose was killed during the ejection, there is no explanation as to why his mask was undone in the water. On the 31st Hop, Maverick and Iceman, now competing directly for the TOPGUN Trophy, pursue an A-4 in a dogfight, but Maverick sees that Iceman is intentionally stalling to score more points. However,Top Gun's endingis significant as it sees Maverick finally realize his potential, not just as a pilot but as a man. So I took it." : Here's whatTop Gun's ending really means. Fighters running training scenarios are unarmed, only using sensors that simulate missile lock-on and shoot-down and results are shown during the debrief. Second it is a violation of Case I departure procedures. Viper: Simple. Covers are only worn outdoors. At 1:32:10, one F-14 launches in a aileron roll or a maneuver in which the airplane rotates 360 primarily about its longitudinal axis. "Top Gun Quotes." He is reprimanded by the commanding officer, CMDR Mike "Viper" Metcalf. Is that clear? After dinner at Charlie's, Maverick and Charlie have a talk and in the background there's a parrot eating a peanut (sitting on one leg). Only better and worse. That's our job. Maverick That spin was hell, it would've shook me up. portrayed by Mallory Jansen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For an F-14 to be traveling at supersonic speeds, the wings would have to in the swept back position. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TopGun. WebViper and Jester emerge, and tell Maverick and Goose to follow them. We weren't below 10,000 for more than a few seconds. See at 33:34. Maverick argues that, ""We weren't below the hard deck for more than a few seconds. Instead, he switches to the longer range weapons - Sparrows or Phoenix missiles on the F-14's forward-quarter weapons. WebHe remains loyal to Maverick, however, and sees Maverick's potential to grow. Before graduating Maverick wears the American flag on his right sleeve, however this is removed and the "Fighter Weapons school" patch has taken the flags original place. Do I have permission to fire?" When Maverick is launched on Alert Five, he is catapulted off the bow of the carrier. He had the shot, and took it. Viper confirms what Maverick had been imagining his whole life about his father. The film crew forgot to clean them off the pavement. It has since been transferred to the US Marine Corps and is now known as Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar. Time jumped by at least an hour just to get that silhouette indoor shot. Niall can be found on Twitter @lordofthegray. Additionally none of the "MiG" fighters are carrying any Anti-Shipping Missiles. 104, but in his catapult launch the aircraft shown is No. If he'd died she would still have a mother. Maverick defends his actions, saying he wasn't below for more than a few seconds. In the training Hops, both Merlin and a blue-helmeted pilot can be seen in Maverick's RIO seat. Viper is a Vietnam War vet who flew a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II along side Duke. There would be a Rear Admiral of the Carrier Strike or Battle Group. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The padlock on Goose's locker is also unlocked. In the very first flight, some of the shots show Maverick and Merlin together instead of Goose. See 1:39:47. That would be unwise as at that high altitude, oxygen within the canopy would be low. : | The F-14's Heads-Up Display (HUD) is fictional shown at 58:42. He stayed in it, saved three planes before he bought it. Iceman also doesn't approve of Maverick's flying skills, accusing him of being an Ineffectual Loner and Glory Hound; Jester though he privately respects Maverick's Ace Piloting, doesn't know if he would make a good teammate in battle. When Maverick comes over and leans on it, Slider isn't shown. Maverick There'll be no disgrace. When Maverick destroys the first enemy fighter in the final battle, it plummets straight down. He's your typical, no nonsense, high-ranking naval aviator. His exact words are the same that Viper shared with him 36 years earlier when Goose was lost. Though he takes a keen interest in the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres, Niall watches everything and anything, and his secret shame is consuming the many forgotten movies of questionable quality from the '90s and 00s. His F-4 was hit, and he was wounded, but he could've made it back. Yeah, he did it right Is that why you fly the way you do? Jester Goose shouts, ""Shit, we got a flameout. : Viper when he got there and in case he didn't he tells him to that he would fly with him. It is thought that Duke is a reference to former U.S. congressman. This is likely due to the necessity of two separate takes to complete the depicted aileron roll, as an F-14 would not have the airspeed to execute such a maneuver so soon after launch. No real naval aviator would walk on the flight deck during flight operations like Maverick did at 1:29:08 without without his or her helmet on. When Maverick is driving his motorcycle along the runway with the planes taking off, you can see the bed of the truck he's atop at the bottom of the screen. So he's saying he's crashed and still had the shot which is nonsense. However in the next shot, the contrails of the tails indicate a takeoff trajectory from the secondary angled runway. Viper Such a description would disqualify the pilot from TOPGUN and even the US Navy. The largest, most active community of the TOPGUN franchise. Iceman and Slider wear patches and insignia from then Attack Squadron 25 (VA-25) now Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA-25) the "Fist of the Fleet." Tom Skerritt. The defensive capabilities of the F-14 are misrepresented. In the very next shot the plane disappears. He should have been already briefed on the rules of engagement and take evasion action at the same time. He nearly retreats after encountering similar circumstances to those that caused Goose's death, but recovers his Heroic Resolve. Holy shit, it's Viper! In Viper's office, Viper starts questioning the boys, asking them why they followed Jester below the hard deck. At the end of the movie when Maverick and Ice come in to land on the aircraft carrier, the first shot of Maverick's F-14 still has Goose's name written below the canopy. At the end of the discussion, others lift Maverick up in the air on their shoulders. Physical description Third, is a Multinational Force and Observers Medal. Throughout the earlier stages ofTop Gun, Maverick believes that his father was killed in action due to his own inability to follow orders. He is forced to take closer stock of himself, and after Goose's tragic death, he seems to have lost both his confidence and his edge. Alternate Versions When the CO departs, the cigar is a stub again. Stockdale would have been Pete Mitchells and Vipers CAG for the beginning of the bombing campaign against North Vietnam. Sundown wears a helmet with a sunburst-style motif on it. Playing sand court volleyball one will certainly have sand on them, it gets everywhere. Towards the end of flying time it is nighttime. Let me ask you something. Top Gun rules of engagement are written for your safety and for that of your team. When Maverick arrives at Charlie's house for their dinner date it is evidently late evening. Viper The hard deck on this hop will be 10,000 feet. See 1:41:14. He has repeatedly struggled with this throughout the film, and his choice to risk his life to save another brings him full circle from his former self-interested attitude. Besides the defensive capabilities of the F-14 aircraft being represented by the lack of the use of flares and chaff to deceive enemy missiles, the offensive capabilities of the F-14's are misrepresented as well, presumably to mislead any hostile governments at the time. Stinger wears a hat/cover inside the ship. Let's go home, Viper has the lead. I know. When he shows up for his date he looks a little sweaty, but no where has he made an effort to remove sand from his body nor is it visible at all. Tell me one thing, if you had to go into battle would you want him with you? In reality, he would report to the Commander Air Wing, ranked as a Captain. Viper Yeah. During the flat spin sequence, Maverick tells Goose to perform the ejection because he is pinned down by the force of the spin and "can't reach the ejection handle". Viper then reveals then-classified details surrounding Duke's plane being shot down and that Viper witnessed Duke's heroic actions before Duke's F-4 Phantom II was shot down. While it is more common to wear a t-shirt under the flight suit, in the 1980's up until the early 2000's, crews did have the option to wear a golf shirt with their squadron colors under their flight suits. Moments later, in the very brief third camera shot after Goose says, "We're going ballistic Mav, go get him," the larger plane (Maverick's F-14) passes through the frame first, followed by Jester's smaller plane. Exactly where Hop 31 takes place is totally inconsistent. His cap changes from back on his head, about fingers from the eyebrows, to down lower, about 2-3 fingers from the brows, to back on his head again. : Iceman, Maverick and several other of the graduates receive orders about a hostile situation, and are assigned to it. 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