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 Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:55 pm Post subject: F-35 set for starring role in Top Gun 2 movie |
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http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2012/03/top-gun-2-will-rock-the-f-35-t.html
Top Gun 2 will rock the F-35, Tom Burbage says
March 1, 2012
Maverick is becoming an F-35 test pilot.
It's true.
Tom Burbage, the Lockheed Martin F-35 programme manager, showed up at a National Aeronautics Association luncheon today and dropped a bombshell of a Hollywood scoop. Sure, there was talk about schedules and budgets, partners and politics, software blocks and carrier hooks. But we'll get to that later.
The big news from Burbage's speech involves Top Gun 2, the long-not-quite-awaited-but-certainly-delayed sequel of the 1986 fighter jock classic.
Tom Cruise, of course, confirmed back in December that the sequel is coming, but nobody -- not even IMDB (we checked) -- knows the full story.
But Burbage does. Lockheed's Fort Worth, Texas, factory and flight test center will host production crew in the "next month or so" to start filming, Burbage told the NAA luncheon crowd.
Burbage also confirmed that Cruise will not just make a cameo; he will be the star, and he is playing the role of a Lockheed F-35 test pilot!
Potential plot twists fill our heads.
There will be no need to resurrect Goose, as the F-35 is a single-seater. With the Libyan air force in smouldering ruins, there will also be no need to stage another improbable yet inspiring combat scenario. Indeed, as a test pilot, it's not clear how the movie's writers can weave Maverick into a combat situation.
Maybe we've been covering the industry too long, but our perfect plot for Top Gun 2 has no combat sequences at all. Instead, it goes like this:
Maverick is a test pilot struggling to keep the flight test programme on schedule, even though his better judgment is sometimes compromised by a lifelong, paralyzing fear of vertical landings. Maverick almost throws in the towel after his favourite knee board/test card holder is destroyed in an unfortunate lift fan malfunction. Meanwhile, the programme's enemies, led by the snearing Bill "Iceman" Sweetman and Karlo "Slider" Kopp, take advantage of Maverick's absence to nearly bury the programme in a wave of seemingly overwhelming blog attacks. That's when Maverick's love interest -- a Texas congresswoman strategically placed on the AirLand subcommittee -- intervenes. She gives Maverick her father's last knee board (er, her father was also a test pilot ... just go with it) and literally pushes him back into the cockpit. Maverick straps on the knee board, takes the Block 3 software build out for a spin, hits every test point and -- for the finale -- lands vertically right on top of Aviation Week's building in downtown Washington DC. And that's when Kenny Loggins starts singing.
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LOL! Hilarious....... 
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Do you folks seriously believe that the F35 can hang in there with a PAK-FA T50 in a Neg 4g dive ?
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| ssbmat wrote: | Do you folks seriously believe that the F35 can hang in there with a PAK-FA T50 in a Neg 4g dive ?
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With Tom Cruise in the cockpit, why not?
After all, he may become the only pilot who would be up against a T-50 in a 4G negative dive at a range of 2 metres!
I wonder who would click a photo of the bogey now considering the F-35 is a single seater!
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| vivekman wrote: | | ssbmat wrote: | Do you folks seriously believe that the F35 can hang in there with a PAK-FA T50 in a Neg 4g dive ?
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With Tom Cruise in the cockpit, why not?
After all, he may become the only pilot who would be up against a T-50 in a 4G negative dive at a range of 2 metres!
I wonder who would click a photo of the bogey now considering the F-35 is a single seater! |
I am asking , seriously..considering
| Quote: | Major areas of concern include:
- Worse than predicted buffeting of the aircraft in high speed and maneuvering modes with the most stringent testing in combat-like situations yet to be done. The result is already seen and predicted further accelerated wear and tear on the aircraft, cracks in the structural frame.
- The high tech helmet-mounted-display that is supposed to allow the pilot to be aware of potential threats and attack targets at night or in bad weather performs badly and its night vision capability is far less than existing systems used by pilots in existing aircraft. The buffeting of the aircraft in flight makes the helmet-mounted-display problems worse.
- The integrated power package that provides backup electrical power, controls much of the aircraft's avionics and the primary oxygen supply and cockpit pressurization has proven horribly unreliable.
- The tailhook arrester on the F-35C for carrier landings failed in every test to catch the arresting cables that yank jets to a halt. A new tailhook design is beign readied for testing early next year but the report suggests that the problem may lie with the basic design of the aircraft itself and fixing it could require a major redesign of the F-35C structure. |
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The movie is one thing .... another battle is coming up with a better soundtrack!!!
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http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=773656
'Top Gun' sequel put on hold
Nov. 7, 2012
A sequel to Tom Cruise's classic 1986 film "Top Gun" has been put on hold following director Tony Scott's suicide.
Bosses at Paramount Pictures approached Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer about developing "Top Gun 2" in 2010, and screenwriter Peter Craig ("The Town") was hired to pen the script.
Scott and Cruise went so far as to scout potential filming locations in Fallon, Nev., over the summer, but tragedy struck on Aug. 19, when the celebrated director jumped to his death from a bridge in California, prompting movie chiefs to temporarily shelve the project out of respect for Scott's legacy.
Executives at Paramount are now considering ditching the sequel altogether so as not to exploit Scott's death or appear insensitive to family members and fans, reports The New York Times.
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