The Top Gun stunt pilots risking their lives for Tom Cruise

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On September 16, 1985, Art Scholl – famed aerobatic stunt pilot and aerial cameraman – took to the skies for Top Gun. Flying several miles off the coast of Carlsbad, California in his Pitts Special biplane, Scholl’s job was to capture “plates” – background footage that could be superimposed onto bluescreen behind the actors. That is, the actors who, unlike Tom Cruise as ace pilot “Maverick”, couldn’t hack it in a real fighter jet.

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