Thanks for the gen, Roly!

'Fat Aerobat' - cruel, but fair!

You know this was a MOVIE right ?

Many of you chaps on that cold little island of yours seem to think it was meant to be taken seriously..

No,no,no! This was a training film, knowledge of which was an essential part of annual standardisation checks - bit like Life of Brian, Highlander & The Blues Brothers :}

I'm sorry! The BAHlooos Brothers.

Ahh, yes. The Elgin flicks 30 years ago. Great flying sequences. Great Meg Ryan (then). Great music (then). What plot?
And how a larffed when all the 12 and 208 Nav's in the room cheered every time Goose spoke. Hero worship I guess.

Happy daze
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"No,no,no! This was a training film, knowledge of which was an essential part of annual standardisation checks - bit like Life of Brian, Highlander & The Blues Brothers http://cdn.pprune.org/images/smilies/badteeth.gif

I'm sorry! The BAHlooos Brothers."

Very funny T7 :):)

Seems like someone who was at Stanley. CR check, fast forward VCR tape to random point with sound off on TV - Newbie required to provide voice over of dialogue.

IIRC one crew room used Monty Python movies, the other the Blues Brothers and Blazing Saddles?

ORAC - Not only Top Gun but also Blackadder 4 - Private Plane used extensively.

Trouble is now twenty five years later I still do it and every time it earns me a swift dig in the ribs from SWMBO!

Few here seem to know that Art Scholl lost his life in the making of this movie. Not that anyone should have known, but worthy of mention nonetheless.

Love TG, but there can be no doubt it was primarily made to attract gay men into the USN!

I provide as evidence the following:

Slider: Goose, whose butt did you kiss to get in here anyway?
Goose: The list is long, but distinguished.
Slider: Yeah, well so is my Johnson.

Wolfman: [watching a video of planes being shot down] This is giving me a hard on.
Hollywood: Don't tease me.

And then there's the volleyball scene....

OK465,

The supposed Miramar O-Club scenes were shot in the Mississippi Room of the Lafayette Hotel on El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego. They even had a Top Gun 30th Anniversary Party recently.

Top Gun Party - The Lafayette Hotel, Swim Club & Bungalows - San Diego Boutique Hotel

The aircrew locker room scenes were shot at the Mission Beach Plunge.

Nothing is ever as it seems in movies.

Top Gun Revisited: 5 San Diego Locations Every Tourist Must Know ? LocationsHub

"there can be no doubt it was primarily made to attract gay men into the USN!"

Can't believe it was initially intended as such.

First viewing for me was on a first date, whereby my (female!) companion seemed to be much more interested in the meatfest on view than anything I could offer!

However..... The USN do actually have some form on this matter....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw

I believe this film was officially sponsored until they saw the end result and quickly "retracted". Oo-er!

When the film came out the RAFs primary flying banana squadron were down at a top secret flying base across the runway from what is now Newquay International airport. The lineys popped into the local cinema to watch it for a laugh, and when the lights came up at the point where they changed reels (remember that?) the back row seemed to be filled with our aircrew.


Several reruns of specific lines from the film were attempted the following day but it didn't quite sound the same when the numerous "Goose" and "Mav" stand-ins were waddling down the flight line in full immersion suits....

I'd forgotten that. A sober reminder. He used to have a 'Super Chipmunk' and take his dog flying IIRC.

There was an accident in RAFG, June 1973, with an F4M where the nav was killed. There may have been others.

Of the gay aspects, remember when the Jag force was the butt of the jokes:)

Pontius, June 1973

Hempy, thank you, I visited that week, very distressing for everyone. I recall the pilot was devastated, don't know how he got on afterwards.

Pontius, I believe he (G.R) went on to instruct on Tornados and also flew Spitfire/Hurricane with the BBMF.

In the aftermath of that accident they put a bevy of crews through the same scenario in the simulator. They all crashed. The ejection sequence was as per SOP, it was just unlucky.

Hempy, thank you. I still remember the warning from my course years earlier. GR was one of my instructor s and the nav another. I can remember some of their names, Bob Rose, USMC and DJ aka Super Nav but not his.