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Mistake Continuity: During the second dogfight, Iceman shuts down one of his engines, but when they fly past the carrier while returning, there are two lines of smoke coming out of his plane.

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Mistake Other: I don't remember there ever being an Alert 5 aircraft during normal flight operations, like Maverick was at the end of the movie. He should have been up in the air already. The Alert aircraft were normally set up before normal flight operations started in the morning.

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Mistake Deliberate "mistake": During the final dogfight, the same shots of missiles flying through the air are used several times.

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Mistake Continuity: When the four pilots are playing volleyball, they have no sand sticking to them even though they are shirtless, sweating, and sometimes diving in the sand.

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Mistake Continuity: Scene of Tom's last take off - the Tomcat's tail number changes before he lands OR TC changed planes mid-air.

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Mistake Continuity: When Maverick leaves Charlie's house after their first date, there is a For Rent sign in front of her house. It appears to be the same shot of Maverick leaving her house towards the end of the film when she's actually put the For Rent sign up and moved.

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Mistake Factual error: U.S. Navy regulations forbid hair bleaching, as Iceman's.

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Mistake Factual error: There is no "Top Gun Trophy." Pilots either complete the course or they don't.

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Mistake Factual error: After the dogfight, when CAG meets Maverick in the squadron locker room, Goose is written on the locker next to Maverick's. They would not have left this on there after his death.

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Mistake Continuity: During the volleyball match, Maverick's dog-tag disappears.

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Mistake Continuity: At Top Gun School, when Maverick does his "hit the brakes and he'll fly right by" move, watch close and you will see part of the canopy moulding fly off the cockpit as the nose comes up.

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Mistake Continuity: In the final dogfight when Iceman shoots down the MiG, he says "roger, engage" and switches to missiles with his thumb on the flight stick.  He then locks on and switches to missiles again.  The switch was already in the correct position.

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Mistake Continuity: If you notice Charlie's (Kelly McGillis) car, the DoD base's name sticker is blue (on her car, it is in the lower left corner).  Blue is reserved for Officers. It should be green (for civilian employees).

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Mistake Revealing: You can tell the scene where Goose dies is done in shallow water instead of the middle of the ocean, where it should be, because in the shot right after Goose splashes down into the water, Maverick takes a few steps to get to Goose instead of swimming over to him.

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Mistake Continuity: All the scenes with actors in the cockpit were shot in the front cockpit... pay attention to the canopy frame behind the RIO. This would also explain a large gaffe from the movie...Merlin taps on the fuel quantity indicator and exclaims "C'mon Cougar, we gotta land this thing, we are way low on gas"... the fuel quantity indicator is in the front cockpit :-)

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Mistake Continuity: When Iceman's plane is hit and begins smoking, the camera is placed behind the firing port for the F-14's gun. The smoke we see is actually from the gun firing, which Ice wasn't doing at the time.

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Mistake Continuity: After the final dog fight where everybody is happily back on the aircraft carrier, Iceman exclaims: You can be my wingman anytime, and Maverick replies: Bullshit - you can be mine. Then they hug, and during that hug Iceman in someway manages to put his sunglasses on, from one cut to another

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Mistake Deliberate "mistake": Charlie is chasing Maverick in her car to tell him how she feels. Maverick races down the road on his motorcycle, then two cars start to move out of an intersecting road and Charlie narrowly misses them. In the next shot, Maverick starts yelling at Charlie about her 'reckless' driving, but behind them, you see the highway, with no traffic lights or signals. Charlie actually had right of way.

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Mistake Continuity: Maverick is shown wearing a black wristwatch, but on the closeup shots of his hand on the throttle, the watch is silver.

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Mistake Continuity: At the end of the briefing before the final scene, Iceman questions Maverick's capabilities. He's right to do so as Maverick can't make up his mind what aircraft he's supposed to be flying. First we see him climbing into the cockpit of an F-14, then when the aircraft is placed on the catapult, it changes to an A6 Intruder. When the order is given for Alert-5 launch, he's flying an F-14.

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