maverick

Aug 18, 2022

The history behind Maverick’s jackets in both Top Gun movies

Following the release of Top Gun in 1986, flight jackets and aviator sunglasses were all the rage. In 2022, the…

Aug 18, 2022

Jul 14, 2022

Find out your call sign and helmet design before you see Top Gun: Maverick

Fighter pilots often use their call signs more than their real names. Whether its earned through a personality trait or…

Jul 14, 2022

BYShannon Corbeil

May 13, 2022

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is amazing: Spoiler-free review

From the moment those first music notes hit, our entire theater was buzzing. I went in rooting for this film…

BYShannon Corbeil

May 13, 2022

Feb 9, 2023

3 reasons Maverick would be a badass TOPGUN instructor

“Your instructor is one of the finest fighter pilots this program has ever produced. His exploits are legendary. What he…

Feb 9, 2023

BYThe Aviationist

Apr 29, 2020

Check out amazing DCS World recreation of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ trailer

A few weeks ago I posted a video by DCS player Forest Rat who recreated the aerial scenes in the very first minutes of “Top Gun” (when the two F-14s piloted by Mav and Goose and Cougar and Merlin are vectored by the aircraft carrier to intercept t…

BYThe Aviationist

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

New ‘Top Gun’ trailer thrills even seasoned fighter pilots

On July 18, 2019, after a 33-year wait, the trailer for ” Top Gun: Maverick” finally debuted. While Tom Cruise’s Maverick may have aged, TOPGUN recruits are still singing in bars, playing beach volleyball, and performing exhilarating feats in F/A…

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

‘Top Gun’ bows to China by changing Maverick’s jacket

The sequel to “Top Gun,” a film that boosted US Navy aviation recruitment by 500%, appears to have bowed to China’s powerful Communist party by changing the jacket of its titular character, Maverick, played by Tom Cruise. In the trailer for…

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

Comic-Con just dropped action-packed ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ trailer

The first trailer for “Top Gun: Maverick” dropped July 18, 2019, at Comic-Con in San Diego and in case there was ever any doubt, Tom Cruise proves that even at 57, he is still one of the most badass action stars on the planet. We learn littl…

Apr 29, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

This Texas Revolutionary was the original ‘Maverick’

In the later days of 1835, Samuel Maverick and his two friends were held on house arrest in what would one day be called San Antonio, Texas. The Texas Revolution was in full swing and the local Mexican military commander, Gen. Martín Perfecto de Co…

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

Sep 12, 2019

‘Top Gun 2’ names more cast including Hamm and Harris

With Top Gun: Maverick expected to begin filming September 2018, the cast is beginning to fully come into form, as several actors have been cast i…