Top Gun Maverick: The iconic ’80s aviation action classic returns to thrill a new generation

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Can you believe it’s been 34 years since we first saw Tom Cruise catapult off a carrier deck and up into the danger zone as Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun? We previewed the first Top Gun movie in our August 1986 issue (and correctly predicted that the Tomcat–and Tom Cruise–would become American heroes). That jet-propelled ode to air-to-air combat in the jet age is without question one of the most iconic films of...

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