A Real Fighter: In the 1986 film "Top Gun," the fictional MiG-28 adversary aircraft was actually portrayed by a black-painted Northrop F-5, adorned with a red-star insignia to represent a Cold War ...

After using the F-14A Tomcat in the original Top Gun, it appears that Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell will have an upgraded F/A-18F Super Hornet as one of his jets of choice. The photos were ...

Even though Tom Cruise flew real fighter jets in his upcoming sequel Top Gun: Maverick, there was one jet that the superstar actor couldn’t pilot: an F-18. The new Top Gun sequel picks up over ...

who rushed outside his Wellington home with a cell phone at the ready to get pictures of the plane and perhaps the "Top Gun" pilot. "He came down really low and I was like, 'That's a fighter jet ...