By Ed Woodcock

Before special effects got good, if you wanted to film a dogfight between two-dozen F-14 Tomcats, you actually needed to get ahold of approximately two-dozen F-14 Tomcats.

That’s where the Pentagon usually came in. By the time the makers of Top Gun rocked up, the Pentagon had been quietly bankrolling war films for more than sixty years. There was a catch though. The films had to serve the US military’s interest. So, no Deerhunter basically.

When the folks at the Pentagon first read the Top Gun script, they loved it – square-jawed aviators pushing jets to the edge of the envelope. That Read full story ›

Source: The Drum