It’s Top Gun: Maverick Week here at For The Win, where we’ve taken to the skies for five days’ worth of content to celebrate the premiere of the sequel to 1986’s iconic ode to Naval Aviation. Strap in for a wild ride (no spoilers!).
Tom Cruise was adamant that the aviation sequences in Top Gun: Maverick be realistic. This meant that the young actors had to go through intense training, both on the ground and then in the air. A large part of that ground training involves water survival, something all naval aviators have to complete in case the absolute unthinkable happens and you end up in the water.
