Just watch Top Gun:



Some thoughts and questions.

QUESTION: What exactly does Charlie, the lady, do?

She has a degree in astrophysics, so she knows about G-Forces.

I doubt she ever piloted a jet fighter so how would she know anything about air dog fighting in this scene?



Also she is a TAGREP, what is that?

Here's the famous scene where she is referred to as a TAGREP:

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechtopguncharliebriefing.html

THOUGHT: The F-14 was a pretty plane.



QUESTION: At the end when there is a crisis in the Indian Ocean and Maverick and Iceman and the other pilots had to break up their Top Gun school graduation to go to the carrier. The carrier with all those F-14 on it. There were no other pilots on that carrier capable of flying a F-14 in air combat?

QUESTION: Iceman and Hollywood are in the air, Maverick is on the catapult on Alert Five standby. Just Maverick? There are 2 catapults. Why only one F-14 on one catapult on standby?

QUESTION: After Maverick launches off the carrier and he and Iceman are outnumbered 6-1. Both catapults break at once. What are the chances of both catapults on a multi-billion dollar carrier to break at the same time.

QUESTION: Is there still a Top Gun school now 34 years later?

QUESTION: Is this real? There was no CGI in 1986.



THOUGHT: I didn't think Charlie was pretty. She is build like a big brick horse and her mouth is kinda wide.

Tom is 5 7. Kelly is 5 10. In some the close up scenes with her and Tom, she had to stand in shoeless feet.