Unpopular opinion: Hangman was arguably the most important character. While clearly lacking in teamwork he helped push the issues between Mav and Rooster to the surface and force them to be confronted. He also brought to light Roosters fatal flaw over and over which he had to overcome in the end. He was able to galvanize the team by giving them a common enemy. He recognized the difference between training and the mission and gave Rooster a vote of confidence when it really mattered which no doubt contributed at least to some degree to his ability to overcome his flaw. Whether he meant to or not he had his fingerprint on a lot of important aspects....plus he saved the day at the end.
Penny was mentioned in a quick one-liner about Pete having "a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter". Hence why Pete says in this one that he pissed off "another" admiral
"Penny" Benjamin is mentioned three times in the first Top Gun film. Once (unnamed) by Maverick's commander on the air craft carrier and then by name by Goose and later by name by Goose's wife.
If no one has mentioned it yet. The actor who plays Bob is Lewis Pullman. The real life son of Bill Pullman who played a fighter pilot and the president who fought the aliens in Independence Day.
Tom Cruise wasn't flying the plane himself. But made all the actors go through Gforce training because they got flown by actual navy pilots. They invented special cameras that fit into the fighter jets, the actors had to press record, do their lines and be their own cinematographer and stay in focus. It was one of the most amazing theater experiences I've had
The Navy made them go through some safety training because they were actually in F-18s to film the flying sequences. NO actors actually got to fly any military aircraft in this movie, with the exception of the closing scene, where Tom Cruise flies the plane that he actually owns at the end, which is a plane from World War 2, a P-51 Mustang.
I would have let Tom Cruise fly the F-18 (in non-dangerous sequences) provided if he goes through F-18 FRS and shows competency in flying it and agrees to pay the Navy if he ended destroying or damaging it.
Penny Benjamin was mentioned in the first movie when Maverick & Goose were getting chewed out by their CAG before being sent to Top Gun. GAG: "And one Admiral's daughter!" Goose (to Mav) "Penny Benjamin?" - that's who Jennifer Connelly is in this movie.
Speed by itself doesn’t actually impart any forces on the body. It’s the acceleration and deceleration that imparts the force. So speeding up, slowing down and turning imparts forces or “G’s” The problem with G’s is they tend to force blood into or out of your head. Out of your head can cause a black out. Into can cause a red out. Military pilots in combat will wear G suits that put pressure on their lower body to keep the blood going to their heads and allow them to take high G’s for a little bit longer Also recall astronauts reenter going 17,500mph 28,000kph and are just fine.
Fun fact: the actors all worked out for months to get in amazing shape for the shirtless football scene. After it was done filming, they went out for fast food to celebrate and started letting themselves go. Then later, they found out the scene had to be reshot and they had to get in shape for it all over again.
They also got so good at playing their roles that more than once enlisted members mistook them for actual officers and saluted. It does become somewhat of a habit a lot of times the first thing you focus on is the rank insignia and if your enlisted or a junior officer snap a salute off right away. Had I been there during filming I might have accidently done it to Tom Cruise myself and can defiantly say I'd probably had with John Hamm :)
Loved the reaction 😀. - As others have mentioned, Mach numbers are speed (x times the speed of sound, which varies with air pressure/altitude). G force is acceleration. ‐ Penny is mentioned in the first movie: "with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admirals daughter (Penny Benjamin)
While it is absolutely true that speed of sound varies bassed on pressure/altitude/temperature, in standard physics it is usually agreed around 1200km/h as this is the number in dry conditions at sea level I believe. Thats why George got that number corresponding to mach 10 (I presume by googling).
"Penny" Benjamin is mentioned three times in the first Top Gun film. Once (unnamed) by Maverick's commander on the air craft carrier and then by name by Goose and later by name by Goose's wife.
@@CompanyLaPtop True, but in aviation the mach number shown in the cockpit is the actual mach number at the altitude/temperature where it's flying. I'm assuming this is too know where they are in relation to the sound barrier, as that affects fuel consumption, and stability since aerodynamics are a bit strange in the transsonic region
G force is actually the force of gravity on your body as a multiplier, 9 G's means 9x the force of gravity, while acceleration does have correlation to Gs, it's not the only factor, centrifugal force and acceleration as well as relative speed verses the rotation of the earth all factor into g-force, correlation is not actual causation, 9x Gs means if you weigh 200 lbs, you will weigh 1800 pounds or 800 kilos, in a high g "inverted dive", or even a hard banking turn you can have 0 acceleration and still pull a phenomenal amount of g forces
@@tru3sk1ll That depends on your reference frame though. If you are turning, then you are accelerating away from your initial direction. Which can result in high G forces even if the speed remains constant.
Jennifer Connelly's character "Penny" Benjamin is mentioned three times in the first Top Gun film. Once (unnamed) by Maverick's commander on the air craft carrier and then by name by Goose and later by name by Goose's wife.
She wasn't unnamed in the first mention. The CO talks about maverick's history of high-speed passes over 5 air control towers and one admiral's daughter. Goose glances at Mav and whispers "Penny Benjamin?"
Mach 1 is the speed of sound, so Mach 10 is 10x that number. Note that the speed of sound changes with air pressure/altitude and humidity. Also - fun fact. That WWII fighter in the ending is Tom Cruise's own plane and it was previously flown by the Tuskegee Airmen (aka the "Redtails"). Look them up; fascinating history.
the mustang was the only disappointment for me an AF plane in a navy movie giggles. should have been a Vought F4U Corsair but thats just the die hard navy person in me.
@@frances3064 I thought it was so cool to see the mustang and find out it was his personal plane but dammit you're right, a Corsair would have been perfect
@@crosswalk48 exactly. It kind of troubles me how many recently educated young adults don't understand such basic concepts. You can be going Mach 10 but without acceleration there is literally no more than 1 G at play.
17:58 we sometimes forget how good of an actor Tom Cruise. That scene was done perfectly. And Val Kilmer was superb as well in there. The way he conveyed empathy and emotions through his eyes was excellent but also heart-breaking.
Yeah, that scene was really low key, no big emoting, just quiet, heartfelt conversation between old friends. I was surprised that I actually teared up at that scene, not something I expected to do watching an action or aviation film.
Bob is the most realistic callsign out of the bunch. Military pilots never get to choose their own callsign and it's practically unheard of for anyone to get lucky enough to have a cool callsign like "Maverick" or "Iceman." Usually callsigns are created by making fun of someone's first or last name, or making fun of something they did, or just making fun of some individual characteristic. The common theme among those is making fun of someone.
My brother-in-law was an Air Force fighter pilot (he flew F16s, not sure what other types he flew). His callsign was Limo, because he showed up to the first day of Air Force Academy in one.
@BogeyTheBear surname Bell gets the callsign "Taco", Surname with anything pertaining to intelligence gets the callsign "Notso". For example, if your name is James Sharpe, you'd be James "Notso" Sharpe
Hangman coming and saving them was perfect. If he hadn't shown up I would have actually been mad. This movie is one of the first movies that constantly had me standing up and throwing my hands up like "OMFG!" So damn good. Honestly one of the most emotional movies in a while. Fun fact, the roof coming off that building wasn't scripted, it actually happened from the jet and they kept it in.
when hangman showed up i thought that was super brave of him.. had that su57 shot down mav.. he would of been next and even in a f18 he would of struggled to win that in that scenario so props to him!
For any aircraft afficianados, the name of his P-51 Mustang is "Kiss Me Kate". Also, at the time of filming, the Blue Angels were in the process of the changeover from the legacy Hornet to the Super Hornet, used in this movie. The plane with the dark blue markings flown by Maverick is now Blue Angel 1
Fun fact, on his pay from the Navy he could never hope to buy and maintain a P-51 Mustang. Just look how much an engine overhaul costs, let alone the other parts and the initial costs.
@@yxeaviationphotog Makes sense, since they aren't married anymore. Doesn't look like it has a new name yet as far as I can find, so now its just the P-51 formerly known as Kiss Me Kate
@@jd190d In my headcanon, Maverick's exploits from the first one were adapted into a Hollywood movie starring Charlie Sheen (or Ben Stiller!) and he got royalties from it over the years.
So happy to see Val Kilmer acting again, that scene had me in tears. He can't really speak, his son dubbed his lines. Loved this movie & loved this reaction!
Congrats Simone! You're the only reactor I've seen point out David Bowie's music when we first see Jennifer Connoly on screen. I thought it was placed there on purpose as well, as a nice little nod to Labyrinth.
The trench run in the end where the older mentor had to support the son of a dead friend he served with was great. Then that son losing his targeting computer and having to reach out beyond himself. Then the rogue pilot comes in to make a "just in the nick of time" save from the bad guy better resourced masked pilot. Loved this New, New Hope.
G-Force is derived from acceleration. The force that pushes you back in your seat when you change speed. Mach numbers are simply a measure of speed. Each mach is the speed of sound. So mach 10 is 10 times the speed of sound. But there might not be any acceleration once you've reached it. It's basically just how fast you're going.
theres always an acceleration . As you go faster you face more drag and hence require more acceleration the net acc might be zero but you will constantly have to have some thrust to maintain a speed. Although what you said was not wrong and this explaination was not needed but here it is
That 80’s music was what we were listening to when the original movie came out. Serious nostalgia for us old timers. It’s a different house, but the same neighborhood. Remember that Top Gun is located at the same air base.
Charlie's house in the first "Top Gun" was at Oceanside and is between new condos, moved about a block from where it is in the movie. Penny's house is in San Pedro near Los Angeles. Not the same neighborhood. The air base in the first "Top Gun" was Miramar Naval Air Station but Fallon and North Island were in this one.
Darkstar is just a movie prop built in partnership with Lockheed Martin and famous Skunk Works who are working on a real plane called SR-72. It is supposed to be an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) hypersonic UAV designed to reach up to Mach 7. Testing helps to develop new materials and eventually design military aircraft that is virtually untouchable by the opposing air defese. BoB stands for Baby on Board, that's a US Navy inside joke on Weapon Systems Officer (WSO), nicknamed "Wizzo" - the guy in the back, who is not a pilot.
I didn't know that extra layer for the Baby on Board joke - on the surface "Baby on Board" could be shortened to Bob (his name) but now that I know this little extra detail, it's even more hilarious. Love that the movie didn't even refer to this and just left it in for the few people who'd appreciate it :)
I was lucky enough to watch this in an empty Imax theater the last day the movie was showing in theaters! None of scenes were dizzying or disorienting which I applaud the director and crew for 👏
*TRUE STORY:* I agreed to take a day off, and take my daughter and niece (12 & 13) to see the new Jurassic movie and go bowling, but only if they'd see this "old fart" movie with me. Both said it "blew the dinosaur movies out of the water," and went back to see this 4 more times.
Same here. I overheard this conversation MANY times when I attended screenings. The thing that shocked me the most with TGM is that ALL age groups went to see it multiple times and fell in love with it - even if they've never seen the original movie. I thought seeing it four times was a lot... but I overheard a girl who was maybe 11 say she saw it SEVEN TIMES... and nobody I talked too only settled on seeing the movie just once lol
The movie itself was amazing. Seeing Val Kilmer really hit the heartstrings. He was the best part of the movie. And that's saying a lot. You guys killed it.
Everyone's been doing a Top Gun 1 & 2 reaction but the first spiritual sequel was actually Days of Thunder (1990), also directed by Tony Scott & starring Tom Cruise. It's basically the same story structure except w/ stock car racing.
The funniest critique I heard about this movie was from the guy that passed me in the foyer after the movie ended at the cinema. He said to his friend wiping away tears "Yeah I loved it, it was almost perfect but it could have done with Kenny Loggins Hangin' out with the boys for the beach football part" I actually laughed out loud 😂
You guys should check out Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) directed by Shane Black of Lethal Weapon fame. Not only is it a good more recent showcase for Val Kilmer, but RDJ and Michelle Monaghan are pretty great too. It’s just a fun buddy detective story filled with great dialogue and memorable twists.
I took part in a barricade trap onboard USS Nimitz back in 1997. That "little net" isn't so little, and those elastic bands are quite thick. That said, as you can probably deduct, they're only used as a last resort measure. It's actually far safer to "crash" on a land facility than it is to do a barricade trap.
Barricades aren't exclusive to battle-damaged planes either. If you're at sea and a plane bolters too many times, they will elect to rig the barricade trap to make sure the plane gets down before they run out of gas.
Remember that Rooster's performance in the air would be life and death for any of the other pilots and weapons officers. Hangman pushes Rooster, because Rooster will get them all killed if he doesn't step up. Hangman takes a couple things perhaps too far, but he is actually right throughout the movie.
Simone: "I wonder if they're playing Bowie on purpose" I believed in you and you did it! I never heard someone make that comment before, but you got the reference! I mean, Jennifer Connelly with Bowie on the background? that can't be just a coincidence. I knew you really have all those rock t-shirts for a good reason
Hangman was kind of like how maverick was in the first movie. Cocky, brash and individualistic. Just like Maverick didn't graduate top of the class, Hangman didn't get to go on the mission, but both ended up being a hero in the end.
The P-51 you see in the beginning and end is Tom's own plane. He took every actor who would be in flying scenes up in it to give them some sense of what they will experience. Although just from a 75-year-old piston-engine plane to the jets they would be in for the movie, it got them started off right. There are videos about the making of it and how they set the cameras in the back seat of the jets, etc. There are some tell-tale pieces of equipment in the shots that give away that they aren't in the front cockpits, but not enough to detract. Also, at the opening when the plane flies over the gate guardhouse and tears off the roof - that wasn't scripted but was too good to take out, repair and do it again. Glad they left it! In our Ranger bars, you walk in with a hat on or fail a challenge for the unit coin then ring the bell and buy the bar. Finally, the aircraft they stole was an F14 which is what was in Top Gun and Goose was the Radar Intercept Officer in the back seat.
I had a patient who flew a P-51 in air shows and he said every pilot comes up to him and says that is their dream plane to fly, even pilots who fly F-16's F-15's, F-22's or any modern fighter tell him they would give anything to fly in his Mustang.
I never knew "MACH" was such a mystery to many people until I heard reactions to this movie, but then I first learned about it from "The Right Stuff" at about eight years old. Simone was the first reactor I have heard to notice the David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly connection. Charlie's house in the first movie is now known as the "Top Gun House" and it is in Oceanside, California. After years of it being closed and efforts to keep it a historical landmark, it was saved from demolition and moved about a block up the street from its movie location. Condos were built around it and currently it is a pie shop with a Top Gun theme. Look up "Top Gun House."
Good job music, good job (mostly) Hans Zimmer! And the end credits, after Lady Gaga's song, always gives me huge goosebumps - a beautiful re-orchestrated version of the theme song! Those flight scenes are stunning, given that they're real.
The "Thank you for saving my life." line really got me. Something about that line always gets me. Same thing happened at the end of the new Jumanji movie, which I really wasn't expecting.
When I went and saw it that scene really hit home for every other pilot and WSO there because it's true. We are like a second family coming together from all across the US, and will do just about anything to protect one another.
Lots of younger people who weren't around when the first Top Gun came out say they like this one better. In a way, it is better, but you have no idea how big it was Top Gun at the time. It was huge. The movie, the soundtrack... And the cast became huge stars, especially Tom Cruise.
As others have probably said, Mach number is a velocity measurement, basically speed of object divided by speed of sound in whatever fluid it's in. So Mach 1 in air is different than in water, different altitudes change, etc. Just used to measure ranges of speed like subsonic, supersonic, all that jazz
24:40 actually there are places you can go as a civilian where they do low level fast jet training (though not live fire ranges). Eg the Mach Loop in the UK (you can see videos on RU-vid).
The words in the start were NOT the same. This time instead of Men it said Men and Women! In the first movie he was with Charlotte, who was called Charlie but they mentioned that Maverick had been involved with an Admiral's daughter and Goose said her name was Penny Benjamin. And his wife, played by Meg Ryan also mentioned her when she was talking to Charlotte as one of the women Mav had been with. 👗👗👠👠💓💓
Penny Benjamin was briefly mentioned in the beginning of the Top Gun movie when Maverick and Goose were getting disciplined, after Cougar turned in his wings
There were a few small things in the movie that go unnoticed. For example in the bar when hangman is talking to rooster about waiting for the moment that never comes, right after the comment he played 'slow ride' on the juke box as a further jab which is why rooster unplugged it and started playing the piano.
@19:50 Jennifer Conolly's character name is "Penny Benjamin". In TOP GUN cannon, she was "the Admiral's daughter" referenced in conversation by his commanding officer and "Goose" that Pete "Maverick" Mitchell did a "flyover" for, and got busted. [See opening scene in TOP GUN (1986) when they find out they're going to Miramar.]
Great reaction! I remember reading that the Navy allowed Tom Cruise to be in a real F-18 jet under one condition: that he couldn't touch any of the controls. Lol Also, fun fact, the coordinates for the airbase in the unnamed enemy country actually correspond with Point Nemo, which is the point in the ocean farthest from land
Aircraft mechanic here: The reason Rooster had to get out of the jet at the end until after the engines were started is because he had to fire up the GPU or Ground Power Unit. That's basically an external starter for the turbine engines, either hydraulic or electric. Many VTOL aircraft (helicopters and the like) have an onboard APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) and can start independently. Admittedly I've only worked in aviation in the civilian field, never the military, and all of my career has been spent working on helicopters, the majority of which on Chinooks so take anything I say with the greatest of grains of salt.
In case no one said yet: Mach number is totally independent of G force. Mach 1 is the speed of sound. Mach 3 is three times the speed of sound. It is simply a way of expressing speed in relation to the speed of sound. When a plane files straight and level, it's experiencing 1G. G forces increase mostly when there's a change of direction (a turn or a pull up). Most high Mach flight is done at 1 G. Also, Penny Benjamin was mentioned twice in the first movie. She was the "admiral's daughter " that Mav "went ballistic" with, as related by Mav's boss and Goose's wife.
I love that the production of this movie mimics the plot in the sense that Tom Cruise actually started a six-week boot camp for the actors to teach them not only how to fly these planes, but also how to operate the cameras attached to the aircraft to get those gorgeous shots. Imagine having to act, operate multiple cameras, AND fly a military aircraft all at the same time. This movie is insane and I love it.
Correction: the actors were passengers in the back seat. They didn't actually fly the F-18s. They did have to go through Navy training in case of a crash in order to ride in the back seat. The shot of Tom Cruise flying the plane at the end is him flying though.
There was so much more substance to everything. The characters, writing, plot, all of it was so much more cohesive and enjoyable. Another great reaction!
Just as good as the original. Another one of my favorites you should react to that is similar to this is The Final Countdown. (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz.
This was an adrenaline thrill ride in the theatre. So much so that my iWatch sent me an alert that my heart rate was high and I seemed to be inactive during the bombing scene. Simone looks like she was feeling it, her eyes were fully opened wide!
As I’m sure others have explained, mach is the speed of sound (which varies a bit with altitude). G is the force of gravity. So 2Gs means twice the force of gravity - it’s as if you weigh twice as much. Velocity doesn’t inherently imply any particular force; an object as perfectly constant velocity is being acted upon with a net force of zero; this is an alternative phrasing of Newton’s First Law.
In the original movie, there was a throwaway line about Maverick and an Admiral’s daughter. Penny is that Admiral’s daughter. Kelly McGillis, the actress who played Charlie in the original, has not aged as well as Tom Cruise, and she turned down appearing in TG:M as she’s retired from acting and admitted that she looks like an overweight grandma. Oh, and the actor who played Bob is Bill Pullman’s son. You might recognize Bill’s roles of Lone Starr in Mel Brook’s “Spaceballs”, the dad in “Casper”, and the the US President in “Independence Day”.
It's not the speed that crushes you, it's the acceleration. If you take a longer time to get to higher speeds you feel less g-forces. Once at any certain speed, if you maintain that speed you don't feel g-forces. Edit: Oh yes...turning at high speed also causes g-forces...the faster the speed when you turn, the more the g-forces. But going in a straight line at high speed does not cause g-force unless you accelerate or decelerate!
Hangman wasn't the Iceman in this movie. He was the Maverick. Rooster was the Iceman, always wanting to do things right so other people wouldn't get killed.
Cruise is a legend. After these next two (and his last) Mission: Impossible films, he's actually getting ready to film a movie in space. Not the entire movie, but a good portion of it, so they say. He's top tier.
The net to catch the plane is completely doable and is in fact, common practice. It works like the tail hook catch system, allowing the plane to continue moving forward while slowing it down gradually, but, quickly too.
For example, if the conditions get bad, they're far out at sea, and one plane is having a bad time of it trying to catch the wire-- they will set up the barricade net to make sure the plane lands before it runs out of fuel.
"I wonder if they're playing Bowie on purpose?" Is that a Labyrinth reference, Simone? And yes Val Kilmer lost his voice and it was simulated in the movie. Finally Jennifer Connelly was like 15 when the original came out, so yeah she's playing a new character.
Watch the documentary “Val” - that’s NOT Kilmer’s actual voice post cancer. His voice is a lot harsher than it is here. Also, Penny is referenced but not seen in the first one, so she’s not technically a new character “in universe”, only on screen. Edited for accuracy.
@@Tr0nzoid Yes, I know. Val does speak in the film though. He struggles, but he can. That said, he doesn't sound like he does here. I misremembered his actual speaking voice post-cancer, which is a lot harsher than here.
While many of the Aviation scenes had the actors inside real planes, the Darkstar is a fictional aircraft (successor to the SR-71 Blackbird) and almost completely CG. It has the skunk on it because Skunkworks was the codename for the SR-71 project. The original Blackbird could go faster than Mach 5 (5x the Speed of Sound,. though official top speed has yet to be declassified) and was built so that no missile system could even catch it to shoot it down as a spyplane. There currently exists Hypersonic Missiles (missiles than can go Mach 5) so the reason to have an even faster plane would be to outrun them. Not to mention the ability to be used as a bomber or attack plane that could orbit the earth (assuming enough fuel) in 5 hours. It could also go from LA to New York in 25 mins.
7:54 Penny wasn't in the first movie but she was mentioned, she was the Admiral (16 year old) Daughter that he fooled around with before the movie that got him in trouble.
Penny Benjamin, his first love, is the Admiral’s daughter that was mentioned by his CO and by Meg Ryan. Which is why she said “of course you did” when he said “another Admiral.”
All F-14's are 2 seaters . The front position is the pilot, the rear position is manned by the RIO radar intercept officer, operating the weapons, Radar systems , Navigation, and pretty much everything else the pilot doesn't need to directly fly the plane. My guess as to why the Ejection seats didn't work is the Safety pins that we needed to be removed just before flight ( they were busy and the ground crew does it) so the seat don't go off accidentally. The Martin Baker Ejection seats I sat in had them. Grumman OV-1 Mohawk.
The fighter jets that Maverick & his team were flying in the film, are the "Boeing F/A-18E & F Super Hornets". A modernized & upgraded version, of the "Legacy F/A-18 C & D Hornets". The "C" &" E" models, are the "single seater", while the "D" & "F" models are the "two seaters". Canada is one of the countries, that currently opetates the F/A-18 C/D, but is slowly being phased out of service to the 5th gen "Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightinig II".
It's a signature of Lockheed to name their airplanes in reference to stars, either specific star/constellation names, or using the word 'star' in some context. Thus the reasoning behind the name Dark Star.
Couple things worth mentioning: 1. That is actually Tom Cruise's P-51 Mustang 2. Penny was referenced in the first movie a couple times. Once in the aircraft carrier Captain's room when Goose and Mav were getting chewed out at the beginning of the film and once by Meg Ryan's character in the restaurant when Goose was playing and singing "Great Balls Of Fire." 3. Mach 1 is as fast as the speed of sound so Mach 10 is 10 times the speed of sound.
All the actors filmed their scenes really flying in real fighter planes. They had to apply their own makeup, be the cinematographer, the director for that scene, run the cameras and act at the same time. Given the massive success of the first movie, the military allowed this to happen because it was Top Gun 2 (and Tom Cruise). The filmmakers made the backseats look like the front to make it look like the actors were flying the planes while the real pilot was behind the camera (in front) flying.
Penny was the Admirals daughter that the Captain of the aircraft carrier mentioned about Maverick getting in trouble over fly by. Goose whispered her name to maverick. Also Tom cruise only flew the P51 Mustang at the end.
No, Tom Cruise was not piloting any of the jets in the film. The "Darkstar" plane at the beginning is fictional, and while they did build a full-scale mockup (with Lockheed's help) for filming, it was not flyable. Cruise and the other actors were actually in the F/A-18s during their flying sequences, but they were in the back seat of 2-seat Hornets -- they were NOT piloting. However, the P-51 that Maverick takes Penny for a ride in at the end is owned by Cruise, and he did pilot it for those scenes.
Penny was the Admiral's daughter that Maverick went balistic with in the first movie. Goose mentioned her name when they are getting bitched out for the fly by. Meg Ryan also mentioned her
The only plane that Cruise is actually flying is the P-51 at the end, which is his personal plane. He and the other actors are riding in the back seats of the other planes while someone else is flying them.
Mach is the speed past the sound barrier. Mach 1 is breaking the sound barrier, Mach 2 is 2x the speed of sound etc. G force is the amount of gravity that is applied to a mass. 1G is what we live in (roughly 14 lbs/square foot 6.35kg/square in)
In the first movie, when Maverick was being chewed out, it was also mentioned an incident involving an admiral's daughter. She's the admiral's daughter so she's in fact an older flame than the one from the first movie.
My one and only gripe is that, photographically. There's no haze, no gradient lens filters and beams of light through windows that the Scott brothers did superbly. TGM is clinically clean and very very digital.
Bonus Bonus Fun Fact: The top of the shack wasn't supposed to fly off! They had built the set in a small amount of time and didn't have time to test it out! But it looked so good that they kept it!
Actually, that guard shack lasted 19 practice passes by an F-18, which stood in for Darkstar. Roof wasn't rated for 20 passes it seemed. 😂. Also, they kept the shit with the roof coming off because that's the only take they got so they had to use it.
Most of the in aircraft shots were shot in Actual F-18s for everyone. They were in the back seat of a two seater. From the launches off the deck to the high g turns. Tom did fly one aircraft the Mustang he was flying at the end. The WW2 mustang is Tom’s personal aircraft.
just some notes. 1. even though it may appear that the screenshot was the same it was not, in the first top gun movie, it had just men mentioned about the school, and in this movie, it has both men and women. 2. one just has to love the lockheed `skunkworks' emblem on the rudder of the `darkstar' aircraft. 3. as for penny, goose mentioned her when maverick pulled the flyby past the tower at the top gun school.
Mach numbers are multiples of the speed of sound, G forces is the force you feel when when you speed up, slow down or change direction... And so if you speed up or slow down at less than 1G you are fine (1G is 9.8m/sec^2) multiply your weight by the G-force to get your effective weight... The higher the G-force the harder it is to handle....