Maverick buys a fight

[tartare]

Old helmet and wrong jet?
What say you?
https://theaviationist.com/2018/05/31/tom-cruise-teases-top-gun-2-movie-with-an-f-a-18f-super-hornet-photo/
I guess the F-35 having only one pole means there couldn't be any banter...

[Traffic_Is_Er_Was]

It'll be about as accurate as the first one then.

[SnowFella]

No Cat, no bueno!
Wife still hate's the original as she had to see her beloved Doc Greene go splat into the canopy. :}

[Davef68]

When We Were On Tomcats

[beardy]

Do they get to kiss this time or is it still 'don't ask don't tell'?

[sandiego89]

It'll be about as accurate as the first one then.

Ahh, I didn't realize the first one was a documentary....

Duffleblog did a piece about the cargo plane in Hong Kong....

https://www.duffelblog.com/2017/05/tom-cruise-top-gun-2/

[Buster Hyman]

Look on the bright side...he's type rated for the IAF still...

[George K Lee]

Everyone likes to pick on the USAF for its love of golf, but at least it involves hitting a small target at long range.

Meanwhile, the ground forces run marathons, possibly on the grounds that the ability to run faster and farther than your C.O. has been an essential military survival skill since Thucydides was a boy.

US Navy aviation is stuck with shirtless beach volleyball. Thanks, Jerry.

[tartare]

They face a helluva challenge making number two - there are so many laughable tropes.
Homoerotic beach volleyball, Iceman (who is now a fat b@stard), sunset-lit motorbike rides with Raybans sans helmet...
All I hope for is that instead of utterly ****e back projections like last time, they actually put Cruise in the air in a real SHornet and mount a few cameras on the thing to get some halfway decent airborne footage.
Oh, and FFS - don't try and pass off F-5s or some other type as MiGs this time round!
Surely the stoodio can foot the bill for a few hours with our hero in an F model driver's seat, and conjure up a few CGI J-20s, T-50s or whatever for a good old turnin' burnin' furball?
And no missiles off the rails this time... we all know real fighter pilots only use guns ;)
That's not too much of a documentary expectation to hope for is it???
At least, credit to the man for getting rated rotary wing on the Squirrel, and learning to fly some tricky descending spiral turns with cameras attached in NZ mountains for the latest MI movie.

[Tay Cough]

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk75ps

;)

[Pontius Navigator]

Do the USN have 55 year old captains flying F18s? He would certainly need o!d age and treachery to beat the young and bold.

[Just a spotter]

Any excuse ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxFq16IG_k0

JAS

[chopper2004]

May I suggest an alternate and already produced sequel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owmv92cCNhQ

lol,

cheers

[Buster Hyman]

Do the USN have 55 year old captains flying F18s? He would certainly need o!d age and treachery to beat the young and bold.

Well, Viper was 53 at the time of the first film...

[Buster Hyman]

May I suggest an alternate and already produced sequel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owmv92cCNhQ

lol,

cheers

"Too close for missiles, switching to BEWBBBS....

[Fonsini]

I’m sure there is a joke in there somewhere about Kelly McGillis being involved in a blue on blue incident but I’m not brave enough to make it.

More importantly does the Shornet have any problems with its inverted flight tanks ?

[fallmonk]

Was top gun 2 not stopped by the USN at the time as the tomcat was getting phased out. And the hornet was new and still semi classified (ie its avionics) and the last thing the navy wanted was film crews climbing all over it .
So the last thing they will want is people all over a F35?
Even though it probably was the best recruitment tool for them ever.?

[chopper2004]

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000534/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_qt_sm#quotesI’m sure there is a joke in there somewhere about Kelly McGillis being involved in a blue on blue incident but I’m not brave enough to make it.

More importantly does the Shornet have any problems with its inverted flight tanks ?

Info all there especially as in the early 80s she and her roommate had a house invasion and violation of both occupants...

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000534/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_qt_sm#quotes

As of 2009 she came out and in 2010 she had a civil ceremony whom shes been with ever since....

Career wise she does not seem to have done badly..

cheers

[OK4Wire]

It'll be about as accurate as the first one then.

As a tax-payer funded recruitment video, it wasn't bad.

[Hockham Admiral]

Do the USN have 55 year old captains flying F18s? He would certainly need o!d age and treachery to beat the young and bold.

HMFC cetainly had a Harrier Flt Lt flying until his retirement at 55 years old, PN.
He joined us directly from that and flew the Guppy for Heavylift as a FO for a few years. I remember giving him a lift back from Akrotiri (he had a pad on Cyprus) to Brize and let him land the old Belfast there. Now WHAT was his name?

[Coochycool]

Viffer? ;)

[Like This - Do That]

But what will the dog's name be?

Aaarrrgh my coat, thank you.

[tartare]

Kelly blue on blue?
Jaysus, I didn't know that - i'm devo!
Must get with the program...must have been as a result of Maverick's small missile...