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 ...

A Real Fighter: In the 1986 film "Top Gun," the fictional MiG-28 adversary aircraft was actually portrayed by a black-painted Northrop F-5, adorned with a red-star insignia to represent a Cold War ...

The F-5 fighter played the role of the MiG-28 in Top Gun – Top Gun: Maverick (2022) has broken countless box office records. The film, which features Tom Cruise reprising his role as naval aviator ...

“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 ...

A Real Fighter: In the 1986 film “Top Gun,” the fictional MiG-28 adversary aircraft was actually portrayed by a black-painted Northrop F-5, adorned with a red-star insignia to represent a Cold War ...