Beware Jet Blast and Rotors… and flat-screen TVs. If ever a movie deserved to be seen on the big screen, it’s this one. Book early, get a seat in the middle (three or four rows back), and I guarantee you’ll be fighting off the goosebumps as the best in-cockpit footage and air-to-air action fills your field of vision.
Yes, Maverick’s back, breaking the sound barrier and almost every safety regulation in the Naval Aviator’s handbook.
This time, he’s flying F/A-18 Super Hornets against Fifth-Generation fighters of an undisclosed enemy – they look strikingly like Sukhoi Su-57 Felons. The storyline might lead you to believe the enemy is Iran (they have, after all, expressed interest in acquiring the Felon from Russia), but, unless they airlifted the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln into the Caspian Sea, that’s impossible.
What makes Top Gun: Maverick (TGM) especially interesting is that Tom Cruise insisted that the in-flight footage was shot for real. The actors were strapped into the back seat of a Super Hornet and taken to the very limit of human endurance, experiencing the sort of extreme-G flying that even has you clenching your butt cheeks in your cinema seat. A San Diego-based
