The Sequel Upgrades to F/A-18s, But the Moves Are Less Realistic “So, although Top Gun’s depiction of the life of a naval aviator might not have been exceptionally well-written, the flying is almost all very realistic,” he says. In airshows, two pilots simulate this maneuver by keeping one airplane further away than the other, he says in other words, it’s faked, because it’s too perilous to actually perform. sucking the airplanes closer together) more quickly than the pilots would be able to react,” explains Malfitano, who offers a “mini degree” in aeronautical engineering. Even if that’s physically possible, it’s so precarious that the situation could probably get away from the pilots (e.g. “The glaring exception is the scene where the F-14 rolls inverted right on top of the F-5/MiG-28, so close that the F-14’s vertical stabilizers would be on either side of the other airplane’s. The Navy didn’t want to release much footage of missiles at the time, either, Malfitano says. For example, airplanes explode, an F-14 goes into a spin, and missiles are fired at planes in the first film. This was one of a few scenes that were impossible to film with real planes, since people’s lives would be in danger. So when Maverick is shown falling in a flat spin, it’s not a real plane you see on screen, but a model. Making your airplane enter a spin is something real pilots could do intentionally, though it carries the risk of the aircraft stalling and crashing. Malfitano knows the risks of stunt maneuvers. Trained pilots can withstand even higher forces if they wear special G-suits that constrict the legs and abdomen with an air bladder to keep blood in the upper body during high-G maneuvers. For the sequel, actors spent three months training to withstand the G-forces they’d experience in the air so they could shoot scenes in real F-18 fighters.Īccording to the movie’s producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, Cruise was the only one able to withstand the G-forces of flying a fighter plane, which can experience up to eight or nine Gs, meaning pilots feel eight to nine times the force of gravity. However, they did actually fly in the airplanes alongside trained pilots during Top Gun filming. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell-and his fellow actors didn’t have to become stunt pilots themselves, of course. Navy aircraft, Tom Cruise-who plays the eponymous Lt. He flies stunt airplanes with technically precise moves that push the limits of what a small plane can do. Malfitano has been an aeronautical engineer and private pilot since 2011, meaning he knows the ins and outs of flying aerobatic style. One example seen in the film is the “ rolling scissors” maneuver, meant to gain a positional advantage against an enemy plane. Pilots can perform most of the airplane scenes, including the air combat maneuvering, known as dogfighting.
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“They did shoot the vast majority of the movie with real airplanes doing real flying, not models or CGI.” “You may be surprised to learn that the first is actually pretty realistic when it comes to physics and maneuvering,” aerobatic pilot Bernardo Malfitano tells Popul ar Mechanics by email. But how realistic are the amazing aerial acrobatics depicted in the two films? Are maneuvers like rolling backflips, shooting straight up into the sky, and flipping upside-down over another airplane actually doable in real life? The Original Top Gun Planes Performed Realistic Moves Now, Paramount Pictures Studios will bring the familiar fighters and their brash pilots back to the silver screen on May 27 with Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel. After all, this is Top Gun, the 1980s big-screen hit. That means not only following orders, but showing off their most daring flying skills. Navy fighter jet training school in “Fightertown USA,” students compete to outperform other pilots in the class.
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