21 Cringeworthy Errors in the Movie TOP GUN

Top Gun was released in 1986 and has since been one of the most popular military aviation films of all time and also very influential. If you talk to anyone who got into flying in the last 35 years, I guarantee they'd probably say they did it because they saw the

movie

Top Gun when they were young, but that doesn't mean the

movie

doesn't have some technical

errors

now, before we jump to the comments and explain to me how Top Gun is just a Hollywood movie, let me tell you. I know, but here on this channel we take our technical details very seriously.

Furthermore, this episode is presented with great love and great reverence for those who have ever gotten on a plane or will do so in the future. Alright, so let's go over the most egregious among the technical

errors

and I'm telling you that if you watch this episode you may never watch the Top Gun movie the same again, so that's a warning, so the first one at the time of Five minutes, Goose's radar presentation shows the 360 ​​degree scan, which is what we call a ppi scan like on a ship's radar, now in real life the F-14's radar only went 65 degrees each side of the nose and you wouldn't want the radar to do a 360-degree sweep because that means it was radiating toward the crew on a high-powered radar like the August 9, which can detect targets over 100 miles away. , it would definitely present a serious health hazard to the crew since it radiated at close range like that, so that's a big mistake number two in the eight-minute time, puma. transmits this ghost about me has misalaka I have permission to shoot well whatever the rules of engagement are the cougars question the mood until he does some pilot thing and actually maneuvers his plane into an offensive position so do that and then maybe he does that question about roe number three at time 901 in regards to mavericks 4g inverted dive as Charlie labels it later if the two planes were that close the cat's vertical stabilizers would get stuck on top of the mig-28 number four At moment 959 Merlin touches a fuel meter that does not even exist in the rear cabin of the F-14, only in the front cabin.

El Rio only has a fuel totalizer number five. At moment 1006, Puma tears off his oxygen mask to breathe. more oxygen that would be scarce at high altitude, so I really should have left it at number six at 10 12. The cougar has a photo of his wife and baby, for some mysterious reason, taped over his cage. airspeed number seven, 1227, there's no way the puma wouldn't have been The landing signal officer waved him off because of that wild approach of his. He gets at least five power calls during the pass. Airbus would have been very unhappy with the lso after that if the lso hadn't gotten him out of there before he tried. to cross ramp number eight, time 1251.

The puma catches and immediately shuts down the plane instead of taxiing out of the landing area, meanwhile, Maverick is still in the air with low gas and still needs to land, but now he can't because The puma has botched the landing. area and has to be towed off the number nine wire at time 13. Now we don't know exactly what this bald guy's abilities are. He is a commander. He is an O5 and has a really nice cabin for an O5. Later in the sequence he says, "You can tell me how to do another time" and dismisses the team to head to Top Gun and that would be an act of professional suicide because he didn't get the only information that someone above him in the chain.

The command chief would have cared that particular day, which is the thing related to mig tower number ten um, there's an idiot coming down on a motorcycle, one of the taxis was shaking his fist at us in the direction of number 11 at time 1252, a hangar is not the most conducive. place for detailed flight summaries because there is a lot of noise with the planes turning on the flight line and it is definitely not a space where you could have ranked summaries number 12 at the time 2953 the smoke effect is actually the stupid idea of ​​the cat pulling fuel when you're about to get into a dogfight when you need all the gas you can muster because you're going to use a lot of afterburner that definitely goes through gas number 13 at the moment 3131 maverick hits the brakes, quote unquote, pushing the throttles forward, what actually increases the power doesn't decrease it now, if you watch the trailer for Top Gun Maverick, it seems like they arranged for the directors to act together, probably because they heard about it all these years and in the trailer for Top Gun Maverick, they pulled the throttle back. as he does that same move, then we have progress here number 14 at time 35 52 Maverick explains why he keeps talking about what he did there during that first top gun mission.

It says we weren't under the hard deck for more than a few seconds I shot, there was no danger so I took it so the hard deck actually simulates the ground so what Maverick is basically saying is that we didn't touch the ground for more of a few seconds, the 14th time, sorry. number 15 at time 5531 why is Hollywood eating an orange on the flight line? This always bothers me, that image I don't know why directors or writers like that the guy is eating oranges and is about to fly, um, that's bad. practice seeds, you know? Can you get sucked into an engine or whatever?

Number 16 at time 5726, so the logic of this whole compromise is just ridiculous. The first maverick lets Chester go and then flies in parade formation behind Hollywood, who is saddled closely behind the other. Bandit Hollywood complains to Maverick not to leave him when he should shoot the bandit right in front of him, then Maverick leaves to go after Viper and finally ends up getting shot because Goose does a shitty job of looking behind them for the bad number 17. at time 106 56 and this is the stop sequence of the flat spin compressor, the goose says that we have a flame out, the engine is off, however, the river does not have any engine instrument in the cabin rear of the F-14 to tell you that that engine actually shut down, there's no way you would know from the back seat that you're a pilot, call number 17 sometimes, sorry, number 18 at the time 107 13. iceman broadcasts the flat spin sequence again, mavs in trouble, he's in a flat spin and heading towards the sea.

As I described in the Why the Goose Died episode, when a plane is in a flat turn, it's going nowhere except down number 19, time 126.50 Airmen wouldn't get orders at top gun graduation, actually. They would be put through a frustrating process of arguing with their detailers the guys who give them orders via email and occasional phone calls over a period of a few months number 20 at the moment 139 47 maverick leads a two plane flyby together to the aircraft carrier with a companion who has been riddled with bullets and most likely has suffered significant damage to the hydraulic system that powers the flight controls.

You're not putting your wings back and doing a good low-altitude parade formation pass if you have a buddy who's had a lot of bullets fired at him and finally number 21 at time 1. 41 14 the iceman says that famous line : You can be my buddy at any time, which ignores the fact that unless you're the opso or the scheduling officer or the squadron buddy who signs off the flight schedule, you just need to suck it up and fly with whoever you're assigned to. assigned. with the flight schedule, well now there's some connective tissue between top gun and top gun maverick according to the trailer trailer we've seen, which at first is a cat flying into the frame, so maybe the f-14 It's still part of the fighter inventory, we'll have to see.

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