Top Gun/Trivia

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Backed by the Pentagon
  • Hey, It's That Guy!: Goose's wife is Meg Ryan.
  • Truth in Television: The training accident that kills Goose was entirely possible due to the design of the Tomcat. Early Tomcats had Pratt & Whitney TF30 engines which were underpowered for the aircraft, resulting in compressor stalls at high angles of attack. The space in between the two engines would also easily result in a flat spin due to the massive amount of asymmetrical thrust should one engine crap out.