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➡️ Airline: FedEx ➡️ Aircraft: Boeing 767-3S2F(ER) ➡️ Reg: N150FE ➡️ Serial #: 42729 ➡️ Location: KMHT

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How the Blue Angels convinced Tom Cruise to make the movie "Top Gun"

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 05/02/2024 - 00:03in Demonstration Squads, History, Military

It's hard to imagine a world without the Top Gun movie. Aviation lovers watch at least once a year, despite the banality of the 80s, because the flight scenes are as cool now as they were more than 30 years ago. The best talents were hired to ensure a successful production, but the star of the film needed to be convinced by the Blue Angels to finally decide to become Maverick.

In another fantastic interview with Ryan Notthaft on Blue Angel Phantoms on YouTube, the Blue Angel pilot who piloted Tom Cruise, Curt "Griz" Watson, talks about his experience.

When reading the script alone, Cruise didn't find it funny. He was a serious actor who was still standing out, and there was a lot of apprehension about how the audience would receive an aviation film. Because the truth is that no aviation movie was really a big box office success before Top Gun.

But the producers knew they had a winner. They considered Top Gun as "Star Wars on Earth", inspired by a story years earlier in California Magazine. But Cruise initially did not share his vision, nor did many producers before Paramount. They had no real characters or stories, just cool jets.

"When I first read it, I thought they had a very limited story and script," Cruise recalled in an old behind-the-scenes article about the production of the film, which you can watch at this link. "I thought so, I don't know about it."

In a final desperate attempt to convince Cruise to join, producer Jerry Bruckheimer called Navy Admiral Peter Garrow, asking Cruise of the Navy to convince him to make the film. Garrow, of course, called the Blues Angels with the orders.

Grizz exceeded Cruise's expectations very well on the team's No. 7 jet, an A-4 Skyhawk. With a bag full of vomit, Cruise was hooked and his love affair with aviation began. When he landed he walked to the nearest public phone, called Bruckheimer and said "I do this".

But he was not satisfied only with the flight on the A-4 of the Blue Angels. After all, Mav is an F-14 Tomcat pilot. So Cruise requested flight time on the F-14 as part of his character's development. What made perfect sense. Cruise even put this in his contract. The producers and the Navy happily accommodated him.

His first F-14 flight also hit him in the head. Your pilot, indicative of call Bozo, put him in a difficult situation. You can watch the interview above about some of these flights, or better yet, watch the video here where Cruise and Bozo talk about it.

He loved piloting the F-14 so much that he even told his pilots "let's film these scenes and then tear everything apart. I'll evaluate you about who is the best driver." Each pilot wanted to know how his other pilots fared and then competed to see who could kick Tom's ass harder.

Cruise has been in love with flying since then. He is now a talented pilot, certified for various types of aircraft. He also owns a World War II P-51 Mustang fighter.

Source: AvGeekery

Tags: Blue AngelsDouglas A-4 SkyhawkHISTORYTop GunUSN - United States Navy/U.S. Navy

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Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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In 1940, Rolls Royce and the British government turned to the American manufacturer Packard Motor Car Company to assist with the wartime production of the Merlin engine. ⁣ ⁣ Packard’s role in the history of the Merlin gets glossed over when it was much more significant than just license production. Of all the Merlin engines built during World War II, 1/3 of them were built by Packard in the United States, but more importantly, it was Packard that made the Merlin mass-producible. ⁣ ⁣ Prior to engaging Packard’s assistance, the Merlin was built in small production lots that were near-hand built with some variations from production lot to production lot. Packard took the Merlin design and made subtle changes (primarily to accept American accessories) that essentially standardized the Merlin design with proper production drawings and measurements to allow mass production on *both* sides of the Atlantic. ⁣ ⁣ Packard assigned 200 draftsmen just to prepare drawings of the Merlin design and then in a short period of time lined up second and third tier suppliers to mass produce an engine that as superb as it was in its early marks, wasn’t originally designed to be mass produced. ⁣ ⁣ That this conversion took place *and* without sacrificing the performance of the Merlin engine is Packard’s legacy to the Merlin’s history as one of the iconic aircraft engines in history.⁣ ⁣ #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #KRBD #RBD #airport #planespotting #NorthAmerican #P51 #Mustang #instagramaviation #igaviationcontest #Avgeekery #mil_aviation_originals #USAAF #instaaviation ⁣ ⁣ #AvGeeksAero #AvGeekNation #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge #TeamAvGeek (at Dallas Executive Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CER8sf0BlTg/?igshid=1dqksy2yfyifw

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This scene completely blew my mind when I first saw it. It was SO FREAKING COOL!!! Like, Marvel basically turned these Norse mythology characters into outer space Vikings who fly SPACESHIPS???

Dream Plane and I have soooooo many headcanons and plot bunnies revolving around Thor and Loki being pilots. It's such a cool concept to explore! Like, they would obviously have had flight training. How many flight hours do they have? Did they ever get into crazy scrapes during their cross-country (cross-realm?) solos? Did they have to learn stalls while flying within Asgard's atmosphere? Did they ever get to experience microgravity? How long does it take Thor (in normal circumstances) to familiarize himself with new spacecraft?? (dramatic gasp) What if Loki was a test pilot at some point??? (incoherent squeeing)

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- How many of you did this when you were or kid (or still do) When I was young I used to love getting the window seat, and every flight I always watched to see if I could see our luggage go on our aircraft. It was like this odd game of Where’s Waldo but in luggage form, and once seen it felt like you accomplished your mission. Now it was on to the vacation.

- Now maybe that’s just me but if that was you in the past let me know In the comments. - So anyways….here’s the photo that inspired that story. When you see packages and luggage going on from the top view sometimes it sparks those memories lol

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