We saw Top Gun Maverick at the $5 show today. Very enjoyable, and even MBH liked it. Yeah, the usual Hollywood cliches and inaccuracies, but a lot of fun. I think that was the APG 73 sea scan radar display that made a surprise appearance in an air to air battle, but at least it was a real display. Did they know “Floyd” was a TOPGUN instructor who had an F-18 algorithm named after him? Speaking of call signs, in Hollywood they are always cool like “Warlock” or ”Coyote”, instead of the actual Navy ones that memorialize an aircrew’s worst failure, smutty escapade, or lame play on name. The more the recipient dislikes it, the harder it sticks.
The movie and the flight sequences were both unbelievable, just in different but still enjoyable ways. And oh yeah, in ‘96 TOPGUN moved (more like exiled for the Tailhook scandal) from beautiful North Island NAS to desolate Fallon NAS. I guess Hollywood decided even they couldn’t make Fallon look inviting.
