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Posted: 7/19/2019 8:08:51 AM EDT
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Purely a guess:
A U2 pilot gets shot down in hostile territory. Mav and crew are called in to cover while the pilot is rescued. Drama and awesome flying scenes ensue. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 8:13:51 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/19/2019 8:14:13 AM EDT
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This seems highly likely. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Near the end of the movie he will introduce a new Top Gun, and it will be a female and she will save him, proving herself..... sequels will ensue. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 8:17:14 AM EDT
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I was 5 y/o when I first watched Top Gun.. must've re-winded that thing to hell playing it over and over again. Definitely inspired me to joint the military. Watching this trailer gave me goosebumps and hearing the telltale theme put a tear in my eye. I hope this film inspires young Americans to join our ranks.. we need them.
Can't wait to watch the film!!! |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 8:18:35 AM EDT
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Can anyone point out some SJW stuff in any recent Tom Cruise movies? |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 8:40:32 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/19/2019 8:43:47 AM EDT
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Plot goes like this.
Goose didn't die, it was a a setup. He staged his own death after being contacted by the Iranians. They offered him the chance to step out of Mavericks shadow, millions of dollars, and all the volleyball gayness his heart desired. In return he has to put together a squadron of f14 pilots and attack America. 30 something years later the f14s are finally operational and the pilots are semi trained. By this time goose is a raging alcoholic and regrets his life choices. Wanting to do something for America goose secretly plans a strike against the faa headquarters. The plan is to have his Iranian co pilots attack the buildings while he makes contact with Maverick and defects back to America. Maverick hears Goose calling on the radio and a homoerotic conversation ensues, Maverick unable to forgive goose for the pain and suffering he caused chasses goose's f14 all the way to the Rocky mountains ( trailer scenes). After Maverick switches to guns he fires and goose has to eject. Maverick lands on the salt flats they are conveniently flying above and runs over to a dying goose. They share a moment, goose tells him of the destruction of the faa building and the Iranians surrender their now out of fuel f14's. Goose becomes the hero everyone always thought he was. Gpz900#dangerzone. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 9:11:09 AM EDT
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Terminator movies? Perfectly fine!
Alien movies? Perfectly fine! Time travel movies? Perfectly fine! Movie about a |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 9:20:55 AM EDT
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Terminator movies? Perfectly fine! Alien movies? Perfectly fine! Time travel movies? Perfectly fine! Movie about a Sometimes you just need to kick back and enjoy the ride. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 9:24:08 AM EDT
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Age waivers for everyone!!
Jennifer Connelly 
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Posted: 7/19/2019 9:24:56 AM EDT
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From one of the YouTube comments:
"If it weren't for the Scientology thing, he'd probably be just as loved as Keanu." |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 9:28:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThey closed the biggest street in town for that crap. A bunch of others too, but seriously, closing Harbor on front of the convention center fucked shit up. Normally there are signs a month in advance when a road will be closed or congested due to an event. Nothing this time.
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Posted: 7/19/2019 9:30:59 AM EDT
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We all know top gun isn't in Miramar. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 9:31:15 AM EDT
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Im just shocked that Maverick is not a african american lesbian, and her copilot goose is now a gay mexican american, with iceman a racist redneck, and half the dialog about how its purely misogyny keeping females out of combat, and they can do anything a male can do. oh, and fuck trump.
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Posted: 7/19/2019 9:32:23 AM EDT
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I was talking to a friend who works for the USAF as a civilian F-16 ejection seat mechanic. He said that the F-16 ACES II ejection seat does not have canopy breakers on it as the canopy of the F-16 is too strong for a seat mounted canopy breaker to work. Something to do with the canopy being built strong enough for bird strikes. He said after the ejection sequence has been initiated hot gas exits one side of the seat from the initiators on the front of the seat. That gas actuates the mechanisms that break the posts on which the canopy lock onto which allows the canopy to release and jettison. Once the canopy is gone an initiator sends hot gas back in thru the hoses on the other side of the seat. Some of this gas is directed to the sequencer, and some goes directly to the catapult to initiate it. Boom, out the plane goes the pilot. If the canopy does not release and jettison the ejection cycle cannot continue.
Wonder if the canopy's strength comes from the material used and that it is a one piece design? That would suck to not be able to have the canopy release. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 9:33:15 AM EDT
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They did. IP in the back of a 2-seater. He was flying in Lemoore all last summer. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: So, you think Navy gave him the keys to an F18? He was flying in Lemoore all last summer. 
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Posted: 7/19/2019 9:33:54 AM EDT
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He was a LT in 1986, so he's got at least four years in, right? Figure a 1982 Commissioning. It's 2019, so a minimum of 37 years. Shouldn't he be wearing stars on his shoulder boards by now? |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 10:00:51 AM EDT
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 Tom Cruise: "Top Gun: Maverick" Is A Love Letter To Aviation | CONAN on TBS |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 10:33:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: But with CGI being at its current state, it's 100 percent possible that the cat launch was done by a Navy pilot and Tom's face replaced his via state of the art CGI.  We Made The Best Deepfake on The Internet |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 10:51:03 AM EDT
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Absolutely. Look what DeepFace can do now, this is by normal dudes just playing with Tom Cruise's face:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vHvOyZ0GbYQuote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: But with CGI being at its current state, it's 100 percent possible that the cat launch was done by a Navy pilot and Tom's face replaced his via state of the art CGI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vHvOyZ0GbY |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 11:20:46 AM EDT
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I'm feeling skeptical about this. The charm of the first movie was a bunch of bad-boys who broke the rules but got the job done. But there's just something kind of sad about the bad boy who never grows up. I think it would have been better if Maverick was now the mature guy training new pilots, and he meets a young version of himself. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 11:25:07 AM EDT
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Nope. I'm pretty sure it's a combat edge (or whatever the Navy calls their version) helmet. The didn't exist back then. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The Gentex HGU-55 helmet has been around since at least the mid 1980s. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 11:37:22 AM EDT
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That will kill off the franchise in a hurry. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Near the end of the movie he will introduce a new Top Gun, and it will be a female and she will save him, proving herself..... sequels will ensue. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 11:52:17 AM EDT
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There’s little crosses in the HUD that line up as you raise or lower the seat. Once hitting the perfect and safe spot the crosses exactly overlap. However, almost all dudes I know sit way higher in the seat for better visibility. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 11:58:06 AM EDT
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Let's hope the trailer isn't the best part of the movie.
Wait did someone say Jennifer Connelly? And Jean Louisa Kelly? Hmm... Haven't seen her since Uncle Buck. Okay, I'm in. (Pun intended.) |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:04:55 PM EDT
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Gentex HGU-33. We still use them with the Collings jets.
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:11:38 PM EDT
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I feel like I am repeating myself but he was in the front seat with an instructor in the back. Or maybe reverse but he was 100% flying. My JOs had even heard him on the radio while airborne. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:12:45 PM EDT
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I guess I should finally watch Top Gun. Top Gun was ok, but that's it. I'll probably watch Top Gun 2 when it hits Netflix. Maybe. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:12:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:16:30 PM EDT
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Not on a CGI plane.  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Isn’t flying that low over the desert going to suck in a load of sand and disintegrate the engines? Will watch anyway |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:22:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:25:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:25:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: For the F-16, yes...the seat leans back 30 degrees. I don't have a clue what clearance a pilot's knees would have under or around an F-16's " dash ". But I would imagine that ACES II rocket would have so much gumption to it that inertia wise, your legs would just naturally bend under the seat. I am sure there is some practicing with the life support folks too where they watch you quickly tuck your legs back and yank the ejection handle at the same time. Repeatedly. EDIT: in their life support shop with a practice ejection seat/mock up of a cockpit. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:27:22 PM EDT
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When I first saw this thread yesterday, the Thunderbirds had arrived in town for the air show this weekend and they were doing some practicing overhead.
Coincidence? I think not. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:35:09 PM EDT
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Meow. I've got a thing for Jennifer Connelly. Quote History |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:36:10 PM EDT
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The seat has straps that pull your legs back towards the seat when you eject so you don’t knock your knees on the instrument panel. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: That is cool as hell. The sitting higher part makes sense in that we hear a lot of pilots mentioning the ability to see is crucial in dogfighting. Doesn't the F-16 have the pilot leaned back more than a lot of other aircraft? I'd be worried about wrecking my knees and lower legs in an ejection. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:38:06 PM EDT
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That music with the bells at the start of Top Gun and in the trailer....
Nostalgic |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:40:08 PM EDT
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That music with the bells at the start of Top Gun and in the trailer.... Nostalgic Also, it looks like there's a lot of references to the original in the trailer. This is fucking awesome. Hopefully there's a recreation of when Charlie was walking through all the guys on the ramp for the first time. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:41:00 PM EDT
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I am betting that is Iceman's funeral he is at. Or maybe Vipers?
ETA - The F14 at the end is probably a dream sequence. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:41:03 PM EDT
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man, military jets are cool as fuck .... in less than 100 years we went from the thought of maned flight being crazy to this AMAZING
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:50:19 PM EDT
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FWIW, most of his movies in the past have not been completely social justice bullshit turds. Top Gun and it’s butt slapping was about as bad as they got. Hopefully the reason they did not give away any of the plot is the rest of its was so crammed with hollywood sjw crap these were the only scenes left.
Will probably watch after I hear a review it is not what I fear it might be. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 12:55:04 PM EDT
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Fucking Hollywood. That's some shameful shit. pC bs |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 1:15:19 PM EDT
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Saw the original with my dad right before we moved to Pensacola so he could attend Naval aviator/ flight school. ALL those guys back then thought they were Tom Cruise. It was awesome. I would watch the Blue Angels from my balcony practicing weekly. I got to know many of them as they were literal neighbors, there and in JAX Nas in the future. It was glorious and I didnt even know how special it was until the last decade now that I am nowhere near an NAS or any naval facility. I miss it all.
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Posted: 7/19/2019 1:18:10 PM EDT
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Tom Cruise is a great actor. I'm confident he could play a transgendered bull dyke of any sort. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Glad they kept Tom cruise as Maverick rather than recasting his character as an transgendered bull dyke of some sort. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 1:21:36 PM EDT
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Ed Harris looks just as young as one of my 1st Sgts....who wasn't even 40 years old https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/80601/Screenshot_20190718-215117_Facebook_jpg-1021569.JPG Quote HistoryQuoted:
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There's no way that movie won't suck. Tom Cruise would have been booted out after hitting 30 years as a Captain. Ed Harris is too damn old to play anyone who is active in the military. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/80601/Screenshot_20190718-215117_Facebook_jpg-1021569.JPG 
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Posted: 7/19/2019 2:01:24 PM EDT
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man, military jets are cool as fuck .... in less than 100 years we went from the thought of maned flight being crazy to this AMAZING |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 2:05:25 PM EDT
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Fuck yea
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Posted: 7/19/2019 2:09:33 PM EDT
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There's no way that movie won't suck. |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 2:21:58 PM EDT
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Tom Cruise doesn't make bad movies.
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Posted: 7/19/2019 3:03:23 PM EDT
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Wait, you want Hollyweird to actually have an original thought? How quaint. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm feeling skeptical about this. The charm of the first movie was a bunch of bad-boys who broke the rules but got the job done. But there's just something kind of sad about the bad boy who never grows up. I think it would have been better if Maverick was now the mature guy training new pilots, and he meets a young version of himself. How quaint. |
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