Behind the Scenes of Top Gun: Maverick 

bro I know right

now imagine that Behind The Scenes was an actual Behind The Scenes rather than a more customized trailer for the movie (and hollywood's appreciation ad for Lockheed)?

Locheed Martin Tasked with Helping a film crew Design a secret Prototype Supersonic Aircraft is the National Level of Trolling. some nation was Bamboozled for a period of time there. suck it Xi you silly Git.

Watch out....Tom Cruise is making a movie in the international space station.....the first feature length commercial film to be shot in space (at least some parts ) .

Air-breathing 😉 It's easy to do Mach 25 when you don't have atmosphere to contend with (and your ship is no longer an "aircraft"...)

@@mrkeogh Easy? It's literally called rocket science :P

if cruise read your comment, he will definitely made a movie up there 🥲

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It's best to make rumors so adversaries get distracted so that they can't focus on the real projects being worked on.

Apparently the producer was told by one of their Air Force consultants that the mock-up of the Darkstar looked so authentic, the Chinese redirected a spy satellite to take pictures of it

Deception of the 21st Century!

@@TheClord123 It won't be surprising if china creates a actual functioning bootleg of it

@@yourfriend4104 🤡 oh ye of little faith

It's insane

THANK YOU, I just got the quest 2 not long ago, and have a HOTAS setup too....

I thought the same thing

@@Spooky4815 Yeah, I'm just being pedantic. Loved the movie. I think it should have been added earlier in the scene where he was at lower mach. So it would make more sense.

It's all relative, it probably was over a great distance. The timing of the edits just made it seem like it happened instantaneously but edits can skip time. An SR-71 could have a similar contrail that would span 3 states.

@@czoom51 SR71 could only take 1.5-2 Gs I think, which is a reason why the turning radius was so ginormous

Yep, when I saw that in theaters, I turned to my wife and said, "You can't turn like that, he's dead"

Clarence "Kelly " Johnson

Yeah, also the father of U-2 and SR-71 along with the YF-12 and A-12

@@michaelkevinmirasol8256 he also worked on the p-38

@@apex_blue yeah the Lightning as well as the P-80 Ahooting Star, I forgot about that sorry

@@michaelkevinmirasol8256 I thought Ben Rich was the one behind the Black Bird.

There has been already. They just can't show it.

You mean more slaves for the Military-Industrial Complex.

But are you talented enough?

There's a book.

@@turanamo like it or not the MIC is a profitable industry

6th Gen bro. In coming years 30 to 40 years Europe, Russia, Japan, China, Middle East, US, India can develop such electric engine for 6th gen jets. And in my View US is way forward in the race but not in Hypersonic Missiles.

@@hitenrodri1388 they aren't that far in the hypersonic Missiles race

@@hitenrodri1388 The US will be ahead in the Hypersonic missile race by 2025. By then they will have at least 3 different hypersonic missiles ready. The ARRW, HAWC, and AIM 260. But unlike other countries the US hypersonic missiles will be launched from all platforms. From the Ground, air and naval vessels. They even have a hypersonic air to air missiles the AIM 260 that will be operational next year in 2023

The original Top Gun managed to get by without any sci-fi planes.

@@AdmiralQuality Except for the ultra secret MiG-28

Alongside the SR71 in the Smithsonian flight museum would be perfect

@@Mark-ks9jj Next to the X-Wing at the National Air and Space Museum.

Agreed. Just saw it. It was crazy....

Think the DarkStar scene was one of my favourite scenes, in the movie, the music, scenery and sound!

The wife and I have seen it 10 times at the theater(so far). AWESOME MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then promptly crashing the damn thing!!

@@DeltaVeeMedia Ed Harris’s character still said that he saved those jobs. Plus now that it’s broken, Lockheed will need to hire more people to inspect the damage and potentially remake the prototype!

@@pizzajona that seems like a waste of taxpayer money

@@un-hyphenated1463 exactly

@@un-hyphenated1463 “waste of taxpayers money” depends on your point of view. Certainly think that aviation advancements like this would provide a net benefit to humanity especially if you believe that these advancements eventually add up to humanity’s ability to prolong its existence on planet earth and beyond. An aircraft like this is just one step away from being a self inserting orbital vehicle.

Littleton Colorado

I went on a tour of the Martin Marietta plant in Waterton Canyon twice, when I was an undergrad at CU Boulder.

Something tells me there are already. It is purposely secret.

There already is, the X-15. However it's an air launched rocket aircraft, not something like Darkstar.

@@ariq4209 How did I forget X-15 lol

@@CharlesAlkhal bruh they have been flying since the early 90s look up aurora

Look up the Aurora

Lol I hear you… all those wide shots of it darting through the atmosphere were GORGEOUS

@@kriskater those shots alone were the best scenes I ever saw on the big screen, I wish I had seen it in IMAX or Dolby cinema to make it even better

They fooled them double because darkstar is actually real. There’s a photo of an aircraft parked in a hush hangar at Groom Lake that has 90 of the features of Darkstsr. We also know the Iranians accused the US of spying because they’ve tracked multiple crafts flying over Natanz nuclear site exceeding Mach 11. Finally, the articles at Warzone and Aviation hunting that SR-72 development was much further along than acknowledged, and that was back in 2018. Highly likely those Mach 11+ flights and crazy groom lake photos are Darkstar.

Its less "can't" and more "there hasn't been a need" The OG SR-71 needed to go high and fast to get Recon pictures and evade missiles. Now we have space satellites that can do the same thing more cheaply and safely. If you want the Darkstar/SR-72, you need a purpose beyond cool speed records.

I think it’s less likely that we made something faster, than it is that we made something that can do the same speed as the Blackbird, with near complete stealth. A Mach 3+ capable RAM coating would definitely be enough incentive to keep the aircraft under wraps for all this time.

Yes it does

Aurora is a Completely Different Aircraft to the "Darkstar". Aurora probably existed, although not as advanced as people think, but is now retired. I Mean, Look at the A-12 Avenger II, That could be the aurora, it's very close to the sightings and has been nearly completed but government cut funding in the final phase of development, after sinking billions into it, So aurora is very probably just a further development of the A-12 Avenger II.

Aurora had been rumored to have pulse detonation engines and not scramjet engines

TR-3B Black Manta

@@NarasimhaDiyasena Aurora is a stretch with pulse jet instead of scramjet and engines, but the tr-3b is rumored to be subsonic maybe supersonic, definitely not hypersonic.

Aurora was powered by methane gas. Aurora was also nicknamed "darkstar" in the 90s.

It is not flyable, but it very much looks the part!

@@imoheight you don't get the joke huh?

@@imoheight you don't get the joke huh?

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The Aurora has been around for a while, so there is going to be no testing. Second the Aurora had pulse jet engines not scramjet like in the movie. The only plane that fits with the timeline and plausibly speeds is the sr-72 however this is a UAV not manned, but for the movie they had to make a exception.

@@apex_blue nobody cares lol

@@mikedc hypocrite

Yeah the F35 is quite ugly and so is the F18

@@decimated550 Now If the f35 is ugly to you, which plane do you consider good looking

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that is what I am confused about because the set was broken on the take off but doubt that it would be an airworthy plane and it was just another jet which was removed and the darkstar added in its place.

Movie prop. It's just that the prop did not come out of Hollywood, it was created by those who know what really works and what doesn't when it comes to thinking up a new airplane.

Yes

Fastest man alive within the Earths atmosphere using an air breathing jet engine. Really doesn’t sound as good does it?

mach number in space is just arbitrary. Mach is the ratio of velocity to local speed of sound. Sound doesnt travel in space. Everything in space is doing mach 0.

@@f18murderhornet okay 24,791 mph > Mach 10

@@admiralsaigojudo5427 just don't say it at all

NASA astronauts who flew on the Space Shuttle wore Mach 25 patches since the Shuttle flew at or above Mach 25 during re-entry.

lmao you’re right

It's F-22 and F-35 the Raptor and the Lightning

@@rockzs74r Those are the public ones, who knows whats happening behind closed doors

Ben Rich from Skunk Works did a nice interview in 1994 before his death... according to him, there were 20-30 year old things which were (and still are) classified because no one else has them yet.

The Blackbird was early 1960's. The first one flew before The Jetsons aired on TV and Pete Best was still drumming for the Beatles.

@@SuperGeronimo999 I remember one story of him telling former SR-71 pilots not to worry about plane's retirement, because they have faster stuff flying out there.

Aurora has pulse jets not scramjets like in the movie. You can put this off as Hollywood bullshit, but I don’t it is #1 the movie was generally really accurate and even skunkworks got involved. #2. The Aurora isn’t being sighted anymore, which either means it’s not being flown anymore, or radars can’t detect it. I’m guessing the first. And if this is the case the Aurora is already crossed out. #3 this has a striking resemblance to the sr-72 and remember based on sightings the Aurora was a triangle.

The actual aircraft used for the low-level pass was an F-18. The DarkStar was CG'd over it.

Wasn't DarkStar the name of another movie?

@@knight_flyer1199 Sure. John carpenter made it in the 1970s. "DARK STAR" (with a space)

I’ve used the DarkStar nomenclature as well... Great fun to see it in this fine film.

You gotta be joking. Can you imagine Tom Cruise saying I feel the need for speed in 36 years 🤣

It is real, there’s a photo of a similar looking plane parked inside a hangar at groom lake. Several journalists have also heard from sources (warzone and aviation weekly etc) that SR-72 was far along in development, that was 2017/2018 articles. The final piece of the puzzle is Iranian complaints about Mach 11+ flights over Natanz nuclear center. The pieces just add up, darkstar is a movie prop built off the design of a very real SR-72. 🙂

I agree, it was an odd choice. They probably weren't listening to any consultants on that part.

Better than unreal CGI

@@bill7778 You really think toms flying of the darkstar was real ?

@@maxim196 no, I was only talking about the real "model" of the fictional airplane.

@@bill7778 I still dont understand how there is a 'real model' of a fictional airplane

@@maxim196 go check out modelling videos, as an example on Star Trek they used a real model for the ship.Look it up it is at the Smithsonian. Star Trek Voyager only used computer designed pictures for the ship and did not build a physical model.

Apollo astronauts returning home: Pathetic…

That local diner was probably in Canada.

Basically can fly, if you put strong engine