Welcome to this week’s Six Secrets where SPYSCAPE is throwing around some serious G’s. We’re diving into the real-life Top Gun school and slipping incognito behind enemy lines with two of our True Spies. If you’re a fan of Top Gun: Maverick, you’ll also want to check out the top movies to stream next.
Top Gun secrets
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) races into the future on the cutting edge of aviation. Maverick may be a ‘great stick’ but how realistic are the stunts and the movie? SPYSCAPE did a 4-G negative dive into Top Gun training to reveal the secrets of the real-life US Navy and Marine Corps instructors who inspired Maverick.
If you want to be a fifth-gen pilot pulling Gs you’ll need to know your A-LOC from your Ziplip. Before you reach Mach 10 in a Darkstar, check out SPYSCAPE’s Top Gun Glossary. You’ll be buzzing the tower in no time.
US Air Force Colonel Buz Carpenter puts True Spies host Vanessa Kirby in the cockpit of his legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. In 1979, two Middle East nations were on the brink of war. To negotiate peace, the US needed detailed military intelligence on both sides so they sent Buz and his Blackbird on a secret mission along the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
As pilots know, not all the action involves dogfights in the sky. David Rosenberg’s thrilling story takes us back to 1995 and an incredible National Security Agency rescue operation to find a US Air Force pilot shot down behind enemy lines. Rosenberg shares the intense, behind-the-scenes search to bring Scott O’Grady home.
Are spy planes still used? Absolutely, and the U-2 is the go-to spy plane for high-altitude reconnaissance. It was secretly designed at Lockheed Martin's ‘Skunk Works’, the same company that designed Maverick’s (Tom Cruise’s) jet. SPYSCAPE runs through the U-2’s specs.
If you loved Top Gun: Maverick, you will want to stream these films right now. SPYSCAPE is flying high with 15 seat-of-your-pants movies about pilots, dog fights, and secret missions. We’ve also thrown in a few extra documentaries and classic TV series for adrenaline junkies!
