aumaverick wrote:

What do you think this new black jet is, Top Gun fans?

aumaverick wrote:

Here me out here, but what if this ends up being the official reveal of the SR-72? The military worked closely with the filmmakers on both films, and this would certainly be a helluva reveal!

Okie wrote:

CGI could be nothing but pixels or a C152 for positioning purposes and generated from that.

aumaverick wrote:

Here me out here, but what if this ends up being the official reveal of the SR-72? The military worked closely with the filmmakers on both films, and this would certainly be a helluva reveal!

Okie wrote:

aumaverick wrote:

Here me out here, but what if this ends up being the official reveal of the SR-72? The military worked closely with the filmmakers on both films, and this would certainly be a helluva reveal!

CGI could be nothing but pixels or a C152 for positioning purposes and generated from that.

I am guessing some of the shots I saw, the aircraft were just too close together. Whether that was CGI or two separate shots connected together by computer I do not know.
The canopy to canopy shot were possibly a shot deal but the fighter ascending straight up between two in level flight, yeah I am thinking not.

In any case it is a movie about something that does not exist, you have to use some imagination.

So in about another 10yrs of CGI will there just not be any need for actors/actresses. Just use CGI save all that money that made Hollywood, Hollywood.

Okie

aumaverick wrote:

The last scene was shot at NAWS China Lake and utilized a Blue Angel for the "fly-by" shot above the guard shack. It was apparently not CGI but practical effect combined with an overlay of the mystery aircraft CGId in place of the F-18.

slider wrote:

This movie is going to full of plot holes, inaccuracies, and overall will probably be pretty stupid. It may be borderline awful but I’m going to utterly love it.

I’ll see it in theaters at least three times, I’m guessing.

aumaverick wrote:

slider wrote:

This movie is going to full of plot holes, inaccuracies, and overall will probably be pretty stupid. It may be borderline awful but I’m going to utterly love it.

I’ll see it in theaters at least three times, I’m guessing.

...you stink.

Tugger wrote:

Here's a review of the trailer by a former F/A 18 pilot and TOPGUN instructor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KfFOHMeqs

He is cautiously polite (I think he gets the launch from the carrier wrong though)

Tugg

slider wrote:

I’ll see it in theaters at least three times, I’m guessing.

TheF15Ace wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9lnIDdkMo&t=7s

A little look at how some of the filming was done.

2.21 is quite simply

Aaron747 wrote:

Looks very formulaic and the dialogue in the trailer is, well, silly at best. LOL’d at ‘they’re called orders Maverick’. But as others have said, the aerial visuals look spectacular. I’ll just have to plug my ears at the speaking parts.

One of the most interesting details about “Top Gun: Maverick” we have discussed here at The Aviationist since the first photos of “Maverick” in High Altitude pressure suit on set emerged in 2018, is the presence of a stealthy hypersonic aircraft in the sequel to the 1980s action movie.

In fact, all the trailers released so far (including the extended Super Bowl version) show Tom Cruise aka Capt. Pete Mitchell, a test pilot (according to the name tag shown in the first trailer), flying a stealthy experimental hypersonic while wearing an all-black high-altitude pressure suit similar to the actual ones worn by high altitude reconnaissance pilots in aircraft like the U-2 and SR-71. And, as already highlighted, the enigmatic test article seems to be somehow inspired to the Lockheed SR-72 hypersonic reconnaissance plane.

A new hint at the shape of the movie’s mysterious aircraft might be in the new Matchbox “Top Gun: Maverick” line available on Jun. 1, 2020. As reported by CNN, the popular toy brand (owned by Mattel) is about to release a series of die-cast models featured in both the 1986 and 2020 Top Gun movies, including the Grumman F-14 Tomcat (both the original and the 2020 version one), the Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet, the hypersonic aircraft as well as the F-35, the P-51 Mustang (that also appears in the trailer) and another quite mysterious jet, whose shape reminds the one of the Russian Sukhoi Su-57 “Felon”.

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Cadet985 wrote:

Now we have to wait a whole year thanks to this damned virus.

https://variety.com/2020/film/box-offic ... 234709716/

Marc

TheFlyingDisk wrote:

Cadet985 wrote:

Now we have to wait a whole year thanks to this damned virus.
https://variety.com/2020/film/box-offic ... 234709716/
Marc

Can't they release it overseas first in countries where they've managed to keep it under control?

Cadet985 wrote:

Now we have to wait a whole year thanks to this damned virus.