A fighter pilot analyzes the use of the “hard deck” in Top Gun: Maverick. The 2022 film starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer, and Glen Powell refers to the training tool throughout ...

Top Gun: Maverick's climactic air assault sequence gets put under the microscope by a retired Top Gun instructor, who looks at the film's depiction of G-forces. Serving as a sequel to Tony Scott's ...

According to fighter pilot C.W. Lemoine, jets can't do that. Ever. Lemoine served 15 years in the U.S. Air Force and then the Navy Reserves as an F-16 and F/A-18 pilot, under the call sign Mover.

Just like Val Kilmer's "Ice Man," the F-14 Tomcat was honorably retired. Its successor, piloted by the elite fighter aces in the "Top Gun: Maverick" mission, was the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet.

The new series comes in the wake of 2022's "Top Gun: Maverick" grossing more than $1.5 billion worldwide. In a press release, National Geographic says the production will get "unprecedented access ...