* TOP GUN * was WAY better than we expected! | First time watching | MOVIE REACTION 

When this came out, I was in high school, and obssessed with fighter jets. My family lived in Virginia Beach, and both my parents were in the Navy. The day after we all went to see the movie, Dad woke me up before dawn, and took me to work with him, at NAS Oceana, the Navy's East Coast Master Jet Base. He sat me down on the back porch of the Air Ops building, (right on the flight line, where the tower is), with a cheap picket camera, 3 rolls of film, and some change for the snack and drink machines. I'm 52 years old now, and to this day, that's one of my favorite memories.

TopGun Maverick is a must

The saying is: There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are very few old bold pilots.

"I love how happy this movie is...", having no idea what's she's being set-up for. RIP Goose.

Another film from this same time era of F-14 is "The Final Countdown". Kurt Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Katherine Ross, Charles Durning. It has a science-fiction, time-travel element to the story but the star(s) of the movie are the ship USS Nimitz, the squadrons & pilots, and crew. All the flying scenes are the actual pilots and crews. I was a crew member on Nimitz during the filming of the movie and to us sailors it seemed more of a recruitment tool for the Navy. Enlistments did go up significantly after it was shown. Great reaction !!!

To explain what happened. The F 14 Tomcat's issue was extra airflow entering the engine ports thar cause a engine stall or jet wash. Maverick and Iceman were flying way to close and when Iceman flew left instead of right caused Maverick to enter a jet wash. The G force pushed Maverick forward to the point he couldn't reach back to pull the ejection cord. The canopy should have blown clear but what stuck hovering above due to thr flat spin. Unfortunately for Goose he ejected straight up and the force broke his neck killing him instantly. The jets today the FA 18 hornet featured in Top gun Maverick the ejection cord is next to the seat. Pilots and RIO will eject sideways to avoid this type of accident. Great reaction

Gotta watch the new one! Even better

The "hard deck" is the training analogue for the ground meaning that going below the hard deck counts as crashing into the ground. Also, yeah. The enemies are not any specific country. Bonus fact: They were only allowed to fire one actual missile for filming. So, kudos to the editors and special effects department for making it look like more. The making of content says that they were actually questioned on how many they'd fired, but that it was in fact only one.

The F-14 jet has two turbofan engines, each with a compressor fan that can stall due to disturbed airflow, leading to engine flameouts. Early F-14 models were prone to these stalls due to design flaws. Maverick's F-14 experiences a believable engine flameout and subsequent flat spin due to differential thrust and disturbed airflow caused by the jet wash of Iceman's F-14, resulting in an unrecoverable spin. This scenario reflects real-life concerns of F-14 pilots.

The man in the back seat is called a RIO, Radar Intercept Officer. He was responsible for operating the radar systems and communications.

If you liked this one, you will love the second one. The Navy was very restrictive with the amount of footage they could shoot. Things were very different with Top Gun Maverick, they had much, much more cooperation and involvement from the Navy. With some aircraft like the F-14, they had a pilot and a Radar Intercept Officer who handled the electronics and weapons systems. The real Viper was a tech advisor on the movie and also made an appearance. He was Perry, the date Charlie met at the bar. The F-14 with the original engines had an unfortunate sensitivity to compressor stall. This was fixed with different engines later. Pilots were trained to delay their ejection a moment to allow the canopy to clear. In a flat spin, there was no real slipstream to blow the canopy away, and Goose ejected into it. The mythical Mig 28 was a nod to Russia. (Migs are designated in odd numbers, not even), but Migs are a Russian product, sooooo.....

I still have the soundtrack to the movie on CD and the original movie posters from the 1980s.

You can not miss watching the sequel to this. MAVERICK !!! As good and in some ways even better!!!

Looking forward to your Topgun Maverick review

The final encounter involving Voodoo 1, 2 and 3 was an actual engagement

I remember when this film hit the theaters back in the day. Was not crazy about you saying you didn't want to watch it because you had no interest in planes. However, as you saw, there is MUCH more to this story than the airplanes. Great reaction and was enjoyable to watch you getting very invested in the movie. (As far as them killing Goose. Who could possibly take his place? That is the one thing you will NEVER FORGET. It made the movie work no matter how much we hated it.) 👍

"Goose is my favorite so far though" Oh baby

The "hard deck" is simulated ground level. They set it above actual ground level, as a safety measure.

F14s had a pilot and a Radar Intercept Officer, who managed the sensors. Flying is completely voluntary. However, given the $1-2M spent on his selection and training he would most likely go to an administrative separation board, and be booted out. If he's lucky maybe made a maintenance officer. Top Gun, the USAF equivalent is Weapons School is not competitive in nature. They are intensive enough that most students just want to graduate.

They skipped the famous Top Gun intro which is a classic, there with the planes taking off, the Kenny Loggins theme, etc. When you do the Top Gun Maverick reaction, please don't skip the intro and comment what you think.

The old man with Charlie at the officers club was the real Viper ( Pete Pettigrew LDCR. He was the technical advisor on the movie.

Great reaction! This was a hit in '86. Watched it several times at the theatre. I remember it came back again, playing on two screens at some movie houses. Now you know about Naval Aviation! Cheers!😊

You guys are great - I loved your reactions. We ALL mourned Goose - and it's absolutely up there with the saddest movie death ever. Top Gun Maverick is a must. You'll both love it. Cheers from Ontario, Canada! :)

F14 has two seats. Pilot in the front and radar intercept officer (RIO) in the back who handles radar, countermeasures, etc

Saw this when it premiered in theater. Another one of my favorites you guys should react to is The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimtz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz. It's like Top Gun meets Back to the Future.

"I wouldn't get him back in a plane that fast" This probably was like a week or so, or even after talking to Navy Mental Health. Also in the American Military, even as we recover mentally and physically from setbacks, we always have to try to improve and press forward. We are monitored along the way, of course, but we have to always be prepared for hardships and how to overcome them.

I absolutely love watching you two. You’re perfect together. Fantastic job guys. I just subscribed.

You'll love TOP GUN: MAVERICK

Nice reaction! I've seen it a few months ago for the 1st time and liked it.. but Top gun Maverik is WAY WAY better. Incredible movie

It wasn't their first mission. Pilots spend a lot of time flying before going to Top Gun.

Just found your channel. Loved the reaction. Top Gun is one of my favorites. You’ll love Maverick, they did a great job!

My first time seeing you guys..... really enjoyed your reaction and your editing. Well done

You don't see this in the movie, because the Tomcat's mission largely changed, but the F-14 Tomcat was originally designed to shoot down enemy bombers from very far away to prevent them from getting close enough to the fleet at sea (i.e., the carrier air groups) to launch long-range anti-ship missiles. The Soviets had "Naval Aviation" squadrons that were only "naval" in that their job was to take out naval assets - they launched from and returned to ground bases just like a regular air force. The idea was to send up large numbers of bombers carrying big, long-range missiles and volley-fire them all at a carrier air group, in hopes of taking out as many ships as possible. The Tomcat was conceived to counter this threat, and it did so with its big, long-range radar that could target and track 24 enemy planes simultaneously and fire at 6 of them at a time with the huge AIM-54 Phoenix missile at ranges out to 125 miles. Of course, at these ranges, the Phoenix was only effective against slow-moving, minimally-maneuvering bombers, which is what it was designed for, making the F-14 primarily an Interceptor. This is why the RIO was so important - running that radar and tracking all those targets was a big job and was very manual rather than computerized, so you needed a dedicated operator for it to keep that burden off the pilot. RIOs had no control over the airplane, though - they were passengers who ran the radar and communications as a tight team with the pilot. As the Soviet mass naval bomber threat diminished into the 1980s, the Tomcat's role was modified to be more of an air-to-air fighter, though the radar-guided medium-range missiles it carried (the AIM-7 Sparrow) were not all that great early on and only got somewhat better over the years. The short-range IR "dogfight" missiles (the AIM-9 Sidewinder) was better, and got even better with upgrades, but was limited to short ranges. Today's radar missiles, the AIM-120 AMRAAM is far better than the Sparrow, but the F14 was never upgraded for them before it was retired. The "flat spin" seen in the movie was actually almost exactly what happened in a real incident. Early F14s had problematic engines that stalled easily, and because the engines were so widely spaced on an F-14, if one flamed out, the asymmetric thrust from the other made it very easy to go into a flat spin. This problem was mostly solved between newer models having better engines and improved pilot procedures to recover the aircraft. The F-14 was a large and very complicated aircraft and it was made back when the world's fastest supercomputer weighed many tons and used tons of grid power for processing and cooling, yet was less powerful than today's Apple Watch. The computing power inside the F14 was FAR less powerful, so lots of stuff was still mechanical and/or human-powered.

Nice guys, cannot wait to see Top Gun Maverick from you ...

I feel the NEED ! ..THE NEED FOR SPEED !!! 😀

A story: at little brother's wedding reception, glass tinkling was replaced by 'sing a love song.' The ushers, of which I was one, did 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling.'

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When watching top gun. Maverick, remember the comment in this one when he talks about the general's daughter. Plays a role in the next one that a lot of people Miss.

That’s actually the real thing Don’t fire unless fired upon Maverick : bullsh**** You can be mine

After watching top gun maverick, you need to watch the bts from this movie. Because they shooting it majority of scenes in the real fighter jet. All the actors siting in the real jet and experience real g-force. P.s sorry for my english:)

It was the number 1 grossing hit of 1986, it musta did something right :)

Thanks!

Not US soldiers, naval aviators.

NOT U.S. Soldiers, they are U.S. SAILORS! and yes, in 1985, there was no such thing as green screens, all the flying scenes were filmed IN THE PLANES. YES when a Naval Aviator realizes that he has become a danger to himself or others, they can most certainly turn in his wings and stop flying, BUT he/she still owes the Navy time on their contract, they just wont be flying anymore, fling from the deck of aircraft carriers is a very dangerous business, so if someone decides that he/she can not do it as safely as possible, it is better for the aviator to turn in their wings rather than to have them stripped from them or worse! I spent 8 years of my Navy career on NAS Miramar and I have never once seen an elevator ANYWHERE on the entire base!

please do more movie reactions!

Radar lock is basically like cocking your gun and being ready to fire.

Its Top Gun so Five out of Five!

Yourl should watch Top Gun Maverick too.

1980s, Mig 28... definitely Russians. ❤

@20:37 ...the timing...Oh no...

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How many aircraft carriers does the Army have?

If you think this movie was good.....................Just wait for the next one.

Why you skip the intro

If you have not seen or reacted to the next "TOP Gun" you need to watch "MAVERICK". It is as good or even better than this one.

I'VE WATCHED THIS MOVIE FOR 30 YEARS AND NEVER CONNECTED THE "SO YOU'RE THE ONE" TO BEING THAT SHE KNEW ABOUT IT AHEAD OF TIME. I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS MORE LIKE "SO YOU'RE THE JACKASS OF THIS CLASS" TYPE INSTEAD. HOW HAVE I NOT REALIZED THIS? DOES EVERYONE ELSE KNOW?

a bit of feedback...enjoyed the reaction...but listening to asking questions that the other doesnt know gets frustrating

Advice. If you're going to talk, stop the movie. And don't cut the flight scenes, that's the movie