“Top Gun” and its sequel may be fictional stories, but fighter pilots are, of course, very real — and their job is pretty demanding. As such, National Geographic is taking fans into the cockpit to ...

A new six-part series on National Geographic promises to take viewers along the journey to the real “Top Gun” training grounds as cameras follow pilot students from the Navy and Marine Corps through ...

Tom Cruise introduced audiences around the world to the Top Gun training and pilots. He and the filmmakers tried to make the films as realistic as possible to represent the real program and pilots.

The blockbuster success of the 1986 film Top Gun—chronicling the paths of young naval aviators as they go through the grueling US Navy’s Fighter Weapons School (aka the titular Top Gun)—spawned more ...

Lt. Col. Geffrey Gebhardt, assigned to the 149th Fighter Wing, Air National Guard, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackand, briefs student pilots 1st Lt. Patrick Mudd and Maj. Dave Carlo at Luke Air Force ...

NASCAR honored Claude Levinge, a 103-year-old retired Top Gun pilot, in Cherokee County Tuesday. Channel 2’s Berndt Petersen was live in Holly Springs. Claude Levinge, who served as a fighter pilot in ...

The pilots of Top Gun: The Next Generation have the need…the need for speed! This new National Geographic docuseries follows a class of Navy and Marine Corps student pilots on their journey to ...