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 release of Top Gun: Maverick has similarly swept the fashion…
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 an embarrassing story, a call sign becomes part of a…
‘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 — and if you have any affection for the original,…
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 has to teach you may very well mean the difference…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
‘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…