One of Tom Cruise's most iconic roles was as Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in 1986's "Top Gun." Maverick is a naval aviator who gets sent to the Navy's Fighter Weapons School, known as the ...

“Now, then, as most of you know, the F-5 doesn’t have the thrust-to-weight ratio that the MiG-28 has.” And in those few words in Top Gun, Kelly McGillis’s flight instructor uttered one of movies’ more ...