Top Gun

[whitehall]

How would it be insulting to real life flyers? It certainly wasn’t a reflection of them personally

The movie was all about Navy fliers. How would a freakout in relative peacetime be insulting? Figure it out.

 

[Slade3200]

The movie was all about Navy fliers. How would a freakout in relative peacetime be insulting? Figure it out.

The dude had a mig behind him with missle lock. He thought he was toast. Enough to freak anybody out. Still don’t see how a scene in a movie like that would insult any flyer. From what I’ve seen most the service loved it and participated in the making of number 2

 

[whitehall]

The dude had a mig behind him with missle lock. He thought he was toast. Enough to freak anybody out. Still don’t see how a scene in a movie like that would insult any flyer. From what I’ve seen most the service loved it and participated in the making of n

Never experienced it but it seems that Hollywood interprets a "missile lock" in relative peace time to be a reason to quit flying. It's insulting to every Navy flier.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Not true. The Cougar episode was a cheap hollywood trick to make Maverick look like a reluctant 2nd choice but it was insulting to all Navy real life flyers,

How many years did you fly F-14s?