Top Gun

When "Charlie" is first introduced to the class, she struts down the aisle in heels. When she follows Maverick into the building, you can briefly see that she is wearing flats to compensate for Maverick's short stature.

At the end, a victorious Maverick is hoisted on the shoulders of the guys. As he goes up, he isn't wearing sunglasses, his head goes out of the shot, and when he comes down, he's wearing a pair.

When Charlie is teaching the rest of Maverick's class "What not to do", in the dog fight he had with the Mig, she is wearing a grey skirt. When she comes out to argue with him at his motorcycle she is wearing a black dress.

On the last flight that Maverick takes a line of dialogue is heard - "He's on your left at three o'clock." Three o'clock tends to be on the right.

In the scene where Kelly McGillis hands Tom Cruise the note saying "meet me at my house 5:30 sharp" or something like that, if you look carefully you can see when she hands Cruise the note that there is a lot of print on the sheet, but when he looks at it in a close up the sheet is totally white blank except for her writing.

In a soon scene after Cruise's partner dies when he's flying with his new partner you can clearly see his call sign on his helmet, but when they get on the ground and he's talking to Cruise, all the letters on his helmet are removed.

In the scene where the guy tells Cruise "Maverick, you and Goose get your butts into Viper's office now", when the scene is close up on his face, the black guy is on the right, but as soon as it goes back to the regular scene the black guy is on the left.

In the volleyball scene, Maverick can clearly be seen looking at his watch because he has a hot date with Kelly McGillis, however while they are actually playing, it is easily noticeable that he is no longer wearing his watch.

In the bathroom, Charlie has a tube of lipstick, next cut it's gone.

In the elevator scene with Maverick and Charlie, Tom Cruise's hair keeps changing.

The weapons armament on the F-14's keeps changing from one cut to another.

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.

Every time they show a close up of Maverick moving the throttle (going to burner, hitting the brakes, etc...) he is doing it backwards. He pulls back for burner and forward to slow down. In real life, it is just the opposite.

In every in-flight cockpit scene a brass hand wheel is visible on the right side of the headbox of the seat.  The only time this hand-wheel is installed on the seat is to disconnect the seat from the aircraft and to disarm the seat.  Therefore, the plane and actors in those scenes were on the ground with a moving camera because there is no way that an F-14 would be allowed to fly with "dry" seats.

Updated 29/5/98 by JWES