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His lack of imagination is what ultimately cost him the top spot. Known for taking risks that no sane pilot would even dare think about, Maverick revels in his self-made reputation of being a dangerous yet irreplaceable fighter pilot.

Part-time artist and writer, full-time overthinker. Believes that Samuel L. Jackson is the greatest actor on earth and misses video stores. Later, they suggest it's Maverick's turn at the challenge of hooking up, as though it was Goose's turn previously.

However, later in the movie, it becomes clear that Goose is happily married and has a family of his own. Near the end, while launching aircraft for the final dogfight, Iceman takes off in No. When Charlie and Maverick finally kiss, it is bright sunny out, early evening. What would be perhaps 2 minutes later, their coming inside for the long anticipated bedroom action, it's quite dark outside, as if it were and hour or more later.

Time jumped by at least an hour just to get that silhouette indoor shot. Navy rules state on tactical jets, oxygen shall be worn from takeoff until landing, a rule broken throughout the movie. Flight crews are seen throughout the film wearing golf shirts under their flight suits.

While it is more common to wear a t-shirt under the flight suit, in the 's up until the early 's, crews did have the option to wear a golf shirt with their squadron colors under their flight suits. Blue decals are used for officers, red decals for enlisted. As a civilian employee she would have had a green DOD decal for her car. The vehicle "Charlie" is driving was borrowed from her "older date" at the beginning of the movie hence the vehicle having a blue DOD decal.

Thus, Maverick and Iceman are correctly wearing Lieutenant insignia. Goose is depicted as a Lt jg and wears the proper insignia: on a white uniform, shoulder boards with one thick gold bar and one thin, and in khakis, a single silver bar a full lieutenant wears double silver bars.

Some thought he was wearing full lieutenant insignia; they are similar. While all Navy pilots must have NOMEX flight gloves with them, they are not required to and in fact, do not always wear them. That's because we're looking in a mirror. What looks like a jittering boom mic in Viper's office above the window following his lecture is not actually a boom mic at all, but rather, the blade of a mounted fan. Maverick's declaration of "I'm not leaving my wingman" may seem odd to some viewers, as the wingman's job is to follow the lead pilot.

However, Maverick remembered the lesson that he learned when he lost a dogfight in school, as to why it is important to never leave your wingman. Had he done so, he would've put his crew and Iceman and Slider at risk. The F which crashes during practice is still used after the incident.

This is probably a different plane altogether, though - it isn't that hard to paint a number on the side of an airplane. Maverick would have been at minimum lost his wings after the fly by early in the movie. If not been thrown out of the Navy and sent to the brig. When Maverick is launching from the carrier before the final battle, he goes directly into a roll when leaving ship.

An F taking off with full tanks of fuel wouldn't have gained enough speed to do this so soon. You can see while filming this rear mounted camera , the plane that does the roll comes from a low-level flyby over side of the carrier.

Also, the catapult Maverick supposedly launched from is "stacked" with parked aircraft. Maverick fires the same missile from the same wing station at least three times. This is because only two live missile launches were authorized by the military and so the footage is repeated many times throughout the film along with model shots.

Several times you can see missiles that are supposed to be live for combat hanging from aircraft wings. The missiles have a blue band around them indicating they are inert training missiles. Live missiles would have a yellow band as a warning of the live high explosive warhead.

They are not. They are armed with Aim-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and fuel tanks. The Exocet missile is large enough to be visible if it were carried. In several scenes of planes taking off, mirrored images are used. This is easily identifiable because the red light that is supposed to be on the port side of the plane is on the starboard side.

In the elevator scene, Charlie's hair is noticeably darker than in other scenes. This is because this scene was shot after principal photography, and Kelly McGillis had already dyed her hair for another film role.

The filmmakers tried to hide her darkened hair with the cap, but it's still noticeable. During the final sequence of the volleyball scene, stunt doubles are playing in place of Goose, Iceman, and Slider.

Goose has a mustache, whereas his vb double does not have a mustache, his hair is thicker and not the same color, and the shape of his face is visibly different than Goose.

Iceman's vb double has a different hair style than Iceman. In all three, you can see their faces and know the real actors are not playing volleyball in that sequence. During the first hop, Jester clearly states that the hard deck would be 10, feet. However, during most of the engagement you can clearly see that the fighters are flying much closer to the ground than 10, feet. They fly through the terrain,and at one point Goose even says "Watch the mountain! When Maverick is riding his motorcycle along the runway, you can see the tie-down straps that hold him onto the trailer, visible on his front fender.

The shot of the inverted F cockpit close to the cockpit of the MiG is flipped lettering is reversed. When Maverick is launched on Alert Five, he is catapulted off the bow of the carrier. However in the next shot, the contrails of the tails indicate a takeoff trajectory from the secondary angled runway. Furthermore, in this shot the bow is now shown stacked with unused airplanes, which would render the depicted takeoff impossible. This is likely due to the necessity of two separate takes to complete the depicted aileron roll, as an F would not have the airspeed to execute such a maneuver so soon after launch.

In many of the third-person aerial scenes, you can see sunlight reflecting on the window of the airplane through which these scenes were filmed. Sundown wears a helmet with a sunburst-style motif on it. However, in the "walking to the planes" sequence prior to Hop 19, we can see another person wearing the same helmet presumably the pilot Sundown is the RIO to , however the RIO he is walking with is a Caucasian.

During the recovery of Goose and Maverick, you can see the safety cable attached to Tom Cruise. When Maverick tosses Goose's dog tags overboard, you can clearly make out the name "Mike Metcalf" on one of the tags, which is Viper's real name, not Goose's, which would be Nick Bradshaw. Also, during the final dogfight scene, the tags carry yet another name on them. The F crews were filmed in a discarded Navy cockpit that was not attached to the rest of the plane. This is why you can never see the wings or vertical stabilizers in the background when they show the actors "flying" in this cockpit.

When Maverick is on the flight deck of the carrier a T2 Buckeye jet trainer, painted orange and white, taxis by behind him. One would not find trainers and presumably student pilots on carriers operating in combat zones. During the initial flight scenes with the MiG's, when Maverick is visible on the screen, Sundown's helmet orange and white stripes is reflected on the cockpit canopy. This is noticeable above and behind Maverick on the upper left side of the canopy.

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. The F fighter jets used in most of the movie flight scenes are a solid dark gray all around. While riding the motorcycle along the runway, 'Maverick' uses his left hand to pull the clutch. At this point he either excels or decelerates to shift gears. His bike does neither because the bike he is riding is strapped on to a trailer.

When Maverick and Charlie drive up in her Porsche, there are no windshield wipers on the car, but in the close up shots, they are there. The chase scene where Charlie is chasing Maverick on his motorcycle and slams on her brakes after he stops and pulls over took "two" takes. If you look closely to the left and rear of Charlie's car after she stops there is a set of skid marks already on the pavement from the first time they did this scene.

The film crew forgot to clean them off the pavement. Maverick's watch shows the same in multiple scenes set at different times of day. The goof items below may give away important plot points. In the very first flight, some of the shots show Maverick and Merlin together instead of Goose. These shots and plane livery were originally made for the final flight. During the final dogfight, we several shot of Goose in the co-pilot seat when obviously he is dead and Merlin is Maverick's "RIO". However, when Maverick reaches him, Goose is face-down in the water.

When Maverick pulls him upright, Goose's mask is unhooked from the right side of his helmet. Before an ejection, crews are taught to fasten their oxygen masks securely to not only provide oxygen at high altitudes, but also to prevent it from causing injuries. When Maverick and Goose ejected, they were both wearing their masks properly.

As Goose was killed during the ejection, there is no explanation as to why his mask was undone in the water. Though the final battle scene supposedly occurs in the open ocean, the carrier is docked in port during the celebration scene. The water around the carrier is calm and reflections of buildings can be seen in the water. The canopy strike leading to Goose's death was, in fact, based around a real life incident, involving a test crew.

The aircraft was in an unrecoverable spin, and the crew initiated ejection. Upon pulling the ejection handles, the crew reported that the canopy seemed to "float" over their heads. 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.

Because of this incident, Grumman extended the canopy lanyard, in order to give the canopy more time to clear the aircraft before the ejection seats would fire. Also, F 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.

When the producers were trying to determine a way for Maverick and Goose to crash, but only kill Goose, Technical Adviser Pete "Viper" Pettigrew remembered this incident from early in his time flying the F, and suggested that this be the plot device for Goose's death.

Furthermore, while the top of the Martin Baker GRU-7 ejection seat did sit higher than the top of the crew members heads, they were not, however, equipped with "canopy breakers," like some modern ejection seats have. Had the seat, for whatever reason, been driven into the canopy, there was no way for the seat to break through the Plexiglass, and a collision would have resulted in serious injury or death of the affected crew member.

Victims rescued by the Coast Guard are always hoisted in a basket, never by the safety harness alone; thus, hoisting Goose from the water as they did is a violation of the proper rescue procedures. At the beginning, they made it clear that Top Gun is for the "best of the best". Maverick made three particular mistakes that would have disqualified him immediately.

During the "choice of assignments scene", after the final dogfight, the "late" Goose's name is seen on the red locker door. The padlock on Goose's locker is also unlocked. However, with the whole SS Layton crisis going on, and the hangar only having recently received news of Goose's passing, it isn't unlikely that it they would have put off cleaning out his locker.

When Maverick is taxiing his F on the aircraft carrier following the victory, Goose long dead by this point , not Merlin, can be seen in the back seat. Additionally, the stenciled text on the cockpit even still reads "Lt. Nick Bradshaw 'Goose'" in this scene. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Top Gap. See more gaps ». Top Gun Did You Know?

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