11 Facts About Top Gun

1. Top Gun is a 1986 American action film directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with Paramount Pictures.

2. Top Gun was the highest grossing domestic film of 1986.

3. Top Gun learns the next day she is an astrophysicist and civilian TOPGUN instructor Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood.

4. Top Gun's becomes interested in Maverick upon learning of his inverted maneuver with a MiG-28.

5. Top Gun tells him he can succeed if he regains his self-confidence.

6. Top Gun goes into a spin after encountering another jet wash, but recovers.

7. Top Gun was unable to recover from the spin and crashed his Pitts Special biplane into the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast near Carlsbad on September 16, 1985.

8. Top Gun was re-released in IMAX 3D on February 8, 2013, for six days.

9. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, saying that "Movies like Top Gun are hard to review because the good parts are so good and the bad parts are so relentless.

10. Top Gun spawned a number of video games for various platforms.

11. In 2006, another game simply titled Top Gun was released for the Nintendo DS.