Of course, Maverick starts dating one of his instructors – Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood, played by Kelly McGillis – and there’s an extended scene of shirtless, oiled-up dudes playing volleyball, just like it happens in the real Navy. I can hear my wife ovulating every time this scene comes on. It’s here that Maverick and Goose will hone their fighter combat skills to the absolute limit, competing against the Navy’s best pilots for the coveted “TOPGUN trophy” and bragging rights for being crowned “the best of the best.” Then Jardian flips the script when he tells Maverick and Goose that instead of their being keel hauled, he’s sending them to the Navy’s elite Fighter Weapons School in Miramar, California, known colloquially to the naval aviator community as TOPGUN. This leads to what still ranks as one of the best cinematic ass chewings inflicted by a military senior onto a subordinate, in the form of Commander Jardian as played to utter perfection by wonderful character actor James Tolkan. Defying orders and running low on fuel, Maverick maneuvers to fly alongside Cougar and assist his fellow aviator to a safe landing. Though no weapons fire is exchanged, one of the MiGs gets a missile lock on Cougar’s plane, rattling him to the point he’s unable to land on the Enterprise‘s deck. As a pilot – excuse me, “naval aviator” – Maverick and his radio intercept officer (RIO), Lieutenant Nick “Goose” Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards, later of the TV series ER), are serving aboard the aircraft carrier Enterprise when they along with another flying team, “Cougar” and “Merlin,” encounter a pair of Soviet MiG-2 combat aircraft while flying their own F-14 Tomcat fighter jets. Navy Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.
Released 35 years(?!?) ago today, Top Gun stars a baby-faced Tom Cruise as U.S.
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