![]() It’s about the pilot, not the technology. He’s carrying the massive manual for their F18 fighter planes, but throws it in the bin: they should know it inside out anyway, he says, and their enemies certainly will. Next day the 12 are shocked to see the man they threw out of the bar walk in to start teaching them. He looks through the window and sees Rooster playing Great Balls Of Fire on the piano, as Goose did all those years ago. Two of them throw Maverick outside for being unable to pay his bar bill (if you leave your phone on the bar, you have to buy everyone there a drink), with a very deliberate and final shutting of the bar doors as they go back inside. The 12 top gun pilots are arriving from far-flung naval bases, curious as to the mission and who could possible teach them, when they’re already the best of the best they also chuck various age-related barbs Maverick’s way. That evening Maverick visits the local bar, which he is surprised to find is now owned and run by his ex-love Penny. The pilots will have to fly low to avoid radar, sneaking into the crater, attacking the target then flying out almost vertically while avoiding any enemy craft that find them. The uranium facility is at the bottom of a crater surrounded by rocky mountains, with GPS jammed. The mission is technically incredibly difficult. Both Maverick and the admirals are aware of Rooster’s antipathy towards Maverick, which we later find out is because Maverick pulled Rooster’s application to the Naval Academy, setting his career back four years. One of the 12 is Rooster, son of Goose, Maverick’s wingman who died in the first film. Maverick gives his assessment of what will be required, thinking he’ll be mission leader - and is stunned to discover he’ll instead be teaching the 12. 12 top US pilots have been chosen, to be whittled down to six for the mission. Maverick is told about the mission he’ll be working on: to destroy an enemy nation’s in-progress uranium enrichment facility that on completion would threaten the US’s regional allies. Maverick is to do this job - his last one - or he’s out now. Admiral Simpson is particularly unimpressed with him, and makes it clear he’s only been brought in because Iceman, whom Simpson hugely admires, requested it. Maverick is still a captain, as he doesn’t want to be promoted to a desk job, but he’s also a pain in the ass for many in the US Navy.)Īrriving at North Island, he meets with Admirals Simpson and Bates. (It later transpires Iceman, now Admiral of the Pacific Fleet, has been saving Maverick’s bacon throughout his career. Still, Cain informs Maverick he’s been summoned back to the Top Gun academy on North Island. “Maybe so sir”, replies Maverick, “but not today”. ![]() “The future is coming and you’re not in it”, he tells Maverick brusquely. ![]() “Earth” replies a suitably impressed small boy.Īdmiral Cain is unimpressed with Maverick’s way of doing things, seeing him as old hat. “Where am I?” he asks the bemused clientele. He ejects out of shot, and we then see him walking into a diner, unaware how far he has travelled. The plane can’t cope with the stresses placed on it at that speed, and it spirals down out of the sky. ![]() Maverick takes it to Mach 9… then Mach 10… then up to 10.4. ![]() Taking off, he flies directly over the newly-arrived Cain. Maverick decides to take the plane up before Cain arrives, and test it to Mach 10, their contract completion speed. He’s part of a project testing a prototype warplane designed to reach speeds of Mach 10, but on arriving to complete the Mach 9 test is informed that Admiral Cain (“the Drone Ranger”) is coming over that day to shut them down. Peter “Maverick” Mitchell is living in a hanger in the desert and working as a US Navy test pilot. Or check out my article Old Relics assemble! Age and obsolescence in Top Gun Maverick) (If you’re after my five-star review, it’s here. So busy muttering “oh my god!” as Maverick’s plane emerged from under one of his pilots during the dogfight training that you missed some of the plot? Maybe, like my 10 year old, you had your hands over your eyes during “the kissing bit”? Check out my plot re-cap below. ![]()
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