Yes, Tom Cruise flew in the thriller action movie Top Gun 2.
The action drama movie Top Gun: Maverick was created by Joseph Kosinski. Christopher McQuarrie, Eric Warren Singer, and Ehren Kruger are the writers of the movie. The movie is a follow-up to Top Gun, which was released in 1986. Tom Cruise returns to the character of navy aviator Maverick.
Tom Cruise is a licensed pilot and has been flying since 1994. He has experience flying combat planes, private jets, and even corporate aircraft. Cruise even holds a helicopter pilot's license. One of the primary reasons he is able to fly such planes is that he primarily performs his own stunts in his films. He has demonstrated his excellent and realistic flying scenes in films such as the Top Gun Maverick and the Mission: Impossible movie series.
Who is Tom Cruise?
Tom Cruise is a producer and actor. He was born on July 3, 1962, in New York. He started out as an extra in a couple of movies at the start of his acting profession. He made his debut as a protagonist in the 1985 picture Risky Business. He became a film star a year later, when he was featured in the movie Top Gun. Cruise co-starred in Interview With The Vampire, a film inspired by Anne Rice's book of the same name, alongside Antonio Banderas and Brad Pitt.
He later co-starred in the critically acclaimed picture Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman, and both Hoffman and Cruise's portrayals were appreciated. In 1989, he was shortlisted for Best Actor for an Academy Award for his work in Born on the Fourth of July by Oliver Stone, in which he portrayed real-life soldier Ron Kovic.
What is Top Gun about?
The plot follows the return of Maverick to the US Navy Fighter Aircraft Strategy Trainer program, also referred to as the States Navy-Fighter Firearms School, "TOPGUN." He must encounter his past there while training a bunch of younger flight crews, including Maverick's dead best friend "Goose" (Lieutenant Nick Bradshaw)'s son.
Which aircraft was shown in Top Gun 2?
The movie featured numerous American Navy fighter jets, which have a significant cultural influence on American aircraft. An F-14 Tomcat served as the first featured aircraft, and throughout the practice sessions, planes like the Sukhoi Su-57 Felon and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II were used. The movie also had a made-up Hypersonic Darkstar. Tom Cruise's personal North American P-51 Mustang, which has a unique history of its own, is featured in the movie's climactic sequence.
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