Vietnam-era A-6’s were hardly “the most advanced planes”, and F-18’s were pretty high-profile at the time, having been chosen as the new Blue Angels aircraft around this time. ![]() The other stuff I mention is just attention to detail and resemblance to reality - there would have been an E-2 on station (especially if this crisis was 24 hours old, as stated in the movie), and combat air patrols would’ve been conducted. Those F-5’s they used are privately owned - I know of at least two privately owned Viggens in the USA (one was used in the Nicolas Cage/Tommy Lee Jones helicopter movie Firebirds) and a little careful editing and model work (which the producers of Top Gun used extensively anyway) could’ve filled the sky with 'em. If they had used, say, a SAAB Viggen or a IAI Kfir and only identified it as a bandit, I’d find it much less annoying. I’m not saying that the producers should’ve gotten real MiGs…just that they should’ve used something relatively exotic to represent an actual MiG model, or just not identified the bandits rather than inventing a non-existant MiG variant. So, we have the following aircraft in the air when the close pass is requested: Two F-14’s returning from the engagement (Maverick/Merlin and Iceman/Slider), and one helicopter which has just broken all applicable speed records after rescuing Hollywood and Wolfman in order to arrive back at the ship as the fighters land.įor that matter, what is the likelihood of more than one catapult breaking at the same time on the Enterprise? (I know it’s the Enterprise from the cap the Captain wears with “USS Enterprise CVN-65” embroidered on it…) I’m thinking that multiple simultaneous breakdowns of launch and recovery equipment is so rare as to be unheard of in the US Navy…but then again so are most of the situations and actions in this movie… ![]() A CH-53 helicopter is dispatched to rescue the unfortunate F-14 crew who were shot down. Now, one of the points that was driven home during the dogfight is that once Iceman’s wingman (Hollywood and Wolfman) has been shot down, Maverick’s is the only other plane in the air, and “both catapults” are broken (on a ship with three catapults IRL…) so no other fighters can launch. The response is, “Negative, Ghostrider, the pattern is full…” so they buzz the ship anyway. Maybe someone can suggest a logical reason for the following, which has become the one flaw in the movie that annoys me more than any other.Īfter the “climactic” dogfight (the one where Tom Cruise fires the same AIM-9 Sidewinder five times - don’t even get me started about that…) against the “MiG 32’s”:rolleyes:, Maverick and Iceman (who is flying on one engine, BTW) request permission for a high-speed flyby of the carrier. This has been bugging me since I re-watched Top Gun out of sheer boredom while the Starz channels were showing it every two hours for the last month.
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