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Top Gun is a 1986 American movie starring Tom Cruise as a young United States Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot.
Cruise's character is selected for the Navy's elite "Top Gun" fighter pilot school at Miramar, near San Diego, California. He falls in love with a beautiful female civilian instructor played by Kelly McGillis. His back seat crewmate (unlike the Air Force, the Navy puts a second officer on its fighter aircraft) is killed in a training accident. The death of his close friend "Goose" (played by Anthony Edwards) causes him to lose his nerve until the climactic air-to-air combat sequence at the end.
See also:
- Gulf of Sidra incident (1981), US-Libyan air engagement over territorial claim, 2 Libyan jets shot down by F-14s
- Gulf of Sidra incident (1989), another US-Libyan air engagement over territorial claim, 2 Libyan jets shot down by F-14s
