Top Gun: Maverick’ studio paid U.S. Navy more than $11,000 an hour for fighter jet rides

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But Tom Cruise wasn’t allowed to touch the controls

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The U.S. Navy lent Tom Cruise F/A-18 Super Hornets for the new “Top Gun” movie

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Cruise ended up flying more than a dozen sorties for the new movie

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Navy allowed the production to use planes, aircraft carriers and military bases even though.

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Top Gun pilots aren’t the cocky rule-benders portrayed in the film people who “would never exist in naval aviation

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They’re studious air nerds who toil away for hours in the classroom and participate in intense training flights at Naval Air Station

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A movie “does not have to be a love letter to the military” to win Pentagon cooperation, Roberts said

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Here's Top Tom cruise movies list by box office performance

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