Top Gun 2
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One of the pilots for the film is a school friend's husband. He did some of the flying for TC. They can't tell me anymore or show photos until the film is out! He's an F18 pilot.
It certainly looks like a movie worth watching! Provided, that is, it isn't infested with low quality CGI...
No doubt it won't do USN recruiting any harm either - which isn't a bad thing!
No doubt it won't do USN recruiting any harm either - which isn't a bad thing!
"Still, it'll be way better than Top Gun 3"
that'll be the one where he has a gorgeous 22 year old female sidekick and a singing meercat no?
that'll be the one where he has a gorgeous 22 year old female sidekick and a singing meercat no?
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Sorry but the scene of the Hornet climbing towards the camera after the pull-up is CGI. So is the Tomcat at the end. All CGI.
The cat-shot, formation scene, desert low flying, pull-up (viewed from the ground), ridgeline crossing, riverbed scene
I wouldn't expect much from Iran's Tomcats, but they do seem to have a few other weapons at their disposal.
The enemy is the N. Koreans (again) who never forgot the caning in the first movie and want somebody's butt.
Well, my own mass has more effect on the tides, too, than it did when TG1 came out, She was fine enough to look at back then. Better than I, for sure, but then I wasn’t in the cast. Thank goodness.
Looks like the new Top Gun bows to China’s communist party by censoring Maverick’s ja
https://www.businessinsider.com/top-...t-party-2019-7
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 "Top Gun: Maverick," which came out on Thursday, Tom Cruise's character can be seen wearing his signature leather jacket, but something isn't the same anymore.
An eagle-eyed Twitter user pointed out that Maverick, whose entire character and name suggest a fierce independence, now wears a jacket that appears changed to appease China, the US's current chief military adversary.
Preparing to attack the SS Layton?? Dunno. But that's who "they" seem to think it was. Who was the enemy...
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Looks like the Tomcat is not IRIAF but may be pretending to be. They got it from the NNAM and were allowed to paint it and have it rewired to allow powering up of the cockpit and lighting. Apparently it was hoisted onto a CVN for some scenes but it didn't fly. The Tomcat is CGI. Actors underwent flight "physicals" and water and ejection seat training and the flight scenes were then shot in real F models to represent E and F models. Select Hornet scenes are CGI but the rest is real including most of the trailer footage.
"Allow for the internal and external placement of the Production Company’s cameras on F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets and Navy helicopters with the approval of the Naval Air Systems Command [NAVAIR]"
****************SPOILERS BELOW********************
Looks like the Tomcat is not IRIAF but may be pretending to be. They got it from the NNAM and were allowed to paint it and have it rewired to allow powering up of the cockpit and lighting. Apparently it was hoisted onto a CVN for some scenes but it didn't fly. The Tomcat is CGI. Actors underwent flight "physicals" and water and ejection seat training and the flight scenes were then shot in real F models to represent E and F models. Select Hornet scenes are CGI but the rest is real including most of the trailer footage.
"Allow for the internal and external placement of the Production Company’s cameras on F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets and Navy helicopters with the approval of the Naval Air Systems Command [NAVAIR]"
