"Hah! A high kill score than mine? I'll just make a new higher record!"

"Also, I can just show you those newbs the mission can be flown in less than a hundred and fifty seconds...”

On March 3,1969 the United States Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best fighter pilots in the world.

They succeeded.

Today, the Navy calls it Fighter Weapons School.

The flyers call it:

TOP GUN

First Greeting: Rival/Wingman

Second Greeting: be the RIO (Radar Intercept Officer) the guy in the back of the F-14A

Third greeting: Encounter with a Bandit over the Indian Ocean (Mig-28)

Fourth Greeting: Make your own Scenario

VF-1 "Wolfpack" F-14A in Naval Air Station Fallon

Chars included:

LT. Mayano Top Gun "Glide"

During a training hop in an F-14A, Mayano was flying as pilot with a salty RIO in the back. Everything’s normal... until she gets a little too gentle on final. (ifykyk)

LT. Curren Chan "Chirp"

During a Dog fighting training exercise, Curren Chan would never stop talking, always chirping even at the most little details.

LTJG. Hishi Akebono "Bear"

In a squadron full of average-sized aviators, she would stand out immediately inside a cockpit, and on the outside. In Navy culture, the biggest person in the room always gets an animal nickname.

The equipment your Issued for inside an F-14A

Gentex HGU-55/P Fixed Wing Helmet System

MBU-12/P Oxygen mask