New Top Gun trailer

[morfiend]

Ya shuff tried to send me a pic once but he broke the camera!





   

[Vraciu]

there aint no jet sexier when it comes to fighters than a tomcat in full afterburnern I[ the bellybutton of some Russian swine!!! reminds me of a fine bellybutton college girl walking in front of me in a hallway here at school!!

Morph

Super Hornet or Eagle > Tomcat

You can put lipstick on a Turkey...   

 

[Ack-Ack]

there aint no jet sexier when it comes to fighters than a tomcat in full afterburnern I[ the bellybutton of some Russian swine!!! reminds me of a fine bellybutton college girl walking in front of me in a hallway here at school!!

Morph

When I was a kid, I loved going to my dad's office building in Del Mar and watch the USN F-14s, along with the aggressor A-4s from Top Gun flying over on their way to practice over the ocean.

[Shuffler]

Ya shuff tried to send me a pic once but he broke the camera!





   

Instructions on my phone camera distinctly says press here....  so to get a selfie I pressed my face there.

I admit... I never took a selfie before.

[morfiend]

That makes 2 of us.....



  I only have a semi smart phone,no data plan no text just phone calls and I cant even remember the last time I used it. I like 5 fingers,phone user are going to evolve to just 3 fingers and 1 real long thumb. Oh and some extra vertebrae in their neck!


   

[AKKuya]

Why is Maverick still a Captain?

The new trailer for Top Gun: Maverick that dropped last week was indisputably the white-knuckle thrill ride of the summer, a blur of aerial acrobatics and beach volleyball that made us wonder how we ever lost that lovin' feeling in the decades since we first met Pete "Maverick" Mitchell back in 1986.

But it also made us wonder something else: Why is Maverick still flying combat missions in an F/A-18 Super Hornet as a 57-year-old captain after more than 30 years of service?

We're clearly not the only ones curious as to why Maverick hasn't moved on to other ventures like, say, flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog poo out of Hong Kong. Indeed, Ed Harris' unnamed rear admiral explicitly addresses Maverick's career trajectory in the trailer.

"Thirty-plus years of service. Combat medals, citations, the only man to shoot down three enemy planes in the last 40 years. Yet you can't get a promotion, you won't retire, and despite your best efforts you refuse to die," Harris scowls. "You should be at least a two-star admiral by now. Yet here you are. Captain. Why is that?"

Yes, why is that?! Luckily for Harris and everyone else who's paying close attention, the Navy has answers. Here's what Navy Personnel Command told USNI News of Maverick's circuitous return to the big screen:

The most straightforward answer to have a captain with 35-plus years of service is for the captain to have previous enlisted experience. In the case of Maverick, this scenario doesn't fit with the movie's timeline – Maverick was a lieutenant in 1986.

Another possible scenario occurs if there's a break in service. For instance, perhaps at some point after the famous incident involving MiGs of uncertain origin over the Indian Ocean, as depicted in the first "Top Gun," Maverick left active duty and did some time in the Navy Reserve. Then later, he returned to active duty. With more than five years in the reserves, Maverick could be pushing 37 years in uniform.

The final scenario for Maverick would be if he were retired but retained in service, a scenario that keeps individuals in uniform after reaching their statutory retirement. Generally speaking, cases of individuals being retired but retained are rare, but not unheard of, according to Naval Personnel Command.

So it looks like Old Man Maverick's time in the Super Hornet wasn't just a product of some silly script doctor's imagination. Then again, that's not totally surprising: Paramount Pictures consulted closely with the Navy on the how to keep the production in line with the real-world U.S. armed forces just as much as it did with the original Top Gun, according to the production agreement published by the Washington Business Journal.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-maverick-still-captain-30-years-after-top-gun-according-navy-70226

In case anybody was scratching their heads on that little issue.

[Vraciu]

Not buying it.   But then again, I don’t care.   Top Gun exists within its own universe and paradigm so...

[Maverick]

It's hollywierd, reality not needed nor even wanted.

[Puma44]

Yeah, don’t try to apply logic or reality to anything coming out of Hollywood.

[Ack-Ack]

Yeah, don’t try to apply logic or reality to anything coming out of Hollywood.

You mean that film were Denzel Washington landed a plane upside down isn't possible in real life? 

[100Coogn]

You mean that film were Denzel Washington landed a plane upside down isn't possible in real life?

He only rolled it.  He landed it on it's belly.  Gotta be real. 

Coogan

[Puma44]

You mean that film were Denzel Washington landed a plane upside down isn't possible in real life? 

Ahhhh, not so much.

[Mister Fork]

Ahhhh, not so much.

Better chance on landing his jet on an aircraft carrier.... in a category 5 hurricane.... blindfolded... naked... while listening to Bob Dylan... and eating a hotdog at the same time.

Just saying....

[Arlo]

Better chance on landing his jet on an aircraft carrier.... in a category 5 hurricane.... blindfolded... naked... while listening to Bob Dylan... and eating a hotdog at the same time.

Just saying....

There's a movie script for ya! 

[Oldman731]

Better chance on landing his jet on an aircraft carrier.... in a category 5 hurricane.... blindfolded... naked... while listening to Bob Dylan... and eating a hotdog at the same time.

Well, really, who hasn't already done that?

- oldman (it was a Nathan's hotdog, if I recall...)