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title: "Watch the actors of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ nearly puke in their helmets as they pull 7 to 8 Gs"
date: "2019-12-18"
modified: "2019-12-18"
authors:
  - name: "James Clark"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/james-clark/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/top-gun-maverick-behind-scenes-video/"
categories:
  - "Aircraft"
  - "Culture"
  - "Entertainment"
  - "Fighter Aircraft"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
tags:
  - "video"
---

# Watch the actors of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ nearly puke in their helmets as they pull 7 to 8 Gs

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22191166-1.jpg>)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9lnIDdkMo

Thanks to a new [behind-the-scenes trailer](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9lnIDdkMo&amp=&feature=emb_logo>) for the highly anticipated *Top Gun* sequel, we get to watch a bunch of actors ride in the back seat of an F/A-18 Super Hornet and try desperately not to lose their lunch.

"You just can't create this kind of experience unless you shoot it live," Cruise said in the [recently released promo](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9lnIDdkMo&amp=&feature=emb_logo>). "In order for us to accomplish this, we have the greatest fighter pilots in the world working with us."

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, *Top Gun: Maverick* will hit theaters on June 26, and marks the return of Tom Cruise as Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, now a captain tasked with training the Navy's newest generation of fighter pilots.

"It's a love letter to aviation," says producer Jerry Bruckheimer in the behind-the-scenes short. "We're going to show you what it's really like to be a Top Gun pilot."

To do that, *Top Gun: Maverick* doubled down on what the original film did best (no, not shirtless volleyball. Although, yes, probably that too.) Based on the trailer, the movie was shot using a new camera system that allowed the film crew to place six IMAX-quality cameras inside the cockpit of an F/A-18 so that every jolt, shake, and nauseated expression could be captured in glorious high definition.

And boy, it is glorious. Just take a look:

[via GIPHY](<https://giphy.com/gifs/gFnAeXEZCYY2tvrlZ5>)

"You can't act that, the distortion in the face," Cruise says in the clip as it cuts to shots of his fellow cast members riding in F/A-18s. "They're pulling 7.5-8 Gs. That's 1,600 pounds of force."

## Author
James Clark is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. He is a former Marine and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan.

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