Title: Top Gun 2: Did Tom Cruise really pilot US Navy fighters jets in Maverick?
Headings: Top Gun 2: Did Tom Cruise really pilot US Navy fighters jets in Maverick?
Top Gun 2: Did Tom Cruise really pilot US Navy fighters jets in Maverick?
Did Tom Cruise learn to fly fighter jets for Top Gun 2?
Did he actually fly military jets in Top Gun: Maverick?
John Thomas Didymus

Content: Maverick? In the original 1986 Top Gun movie, actual fighter planes were used to shoot the flight sequences. The actors flew in the jets to film some of the flight sequences. However, the actors did not actually fly the jets themselves. A fighter jet pilot flew them but the film was shot to make it look like the actors were actually flying the planes. But after Cruise confirmed that the flight sequences in the movie were real and fans saw him in the trailer released yesterday apparently flying Navy fighter jets and performing stunts in them, many have been asking whether the Navy actually allowed him to fly their jets. But as Entertainment Weekly pointed out, U.S. military law does not allow civilians to use military equipment, including military jets. So the scenes which involve actual flights and stunts in U.S. Navy fighter jets would have to be performed by authorized personnel. But Cruise actually flew aircraft in the movie. Some of the scenes showing him in the cockpit were real as he said at Comic-Con.