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Planes line up for a day of filming at the Navy Fighter Weapons School, better known as Top Gun at Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego, California, on Aug. 14, 1985. (Photo by Charles Starr/San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: U-T file photos of pilots and planes at Miramar Naval Air Station during the filming of Paramount Pictures “Top Gun” movie in the summer of 1985. (Staff Photographer / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Lt. Mike Galpin in the ready room during on-location filming for the movie, “Top Gun” at the Navy’s Fighter Weapons School for elite pilots at Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego, California on Aug. 14, 1985. “It’s kind of fun to watch them do their job,” said Galpin, better known as “Flex” because of his affinity for working out at the gym. “Of course, our main job here is to fly. We’d like to see them do a documentary about Top Gun, but it’s the Hollywood stuff that sells movies.” User Upload Caption: U-T file photos of pilots and planes at Miramar Naval Air Station during the filming of Paramount Pictures “Top Gun” movie in the summer of 1985. (Staff Photographer / San Diego Union-Tribune)
John Semcken serves as the Navy’s liaison for “Top Gun,” being filmed at Miramar Naval Air Station on July 27, 1985. (Photo by Charles Starr/San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: U-T file photos of pilots and planes at Miramar Naval Air Station during the filming of Paramount Pictures “Top Gun” movie in the summer of 1985. (Staff Photographer / San Diego Union-Tribune)
John Semcken, left, and Pete Pettigrew on a jet at Miramar Naval Air Station, on July 27, 1985. Paramount was filming of the movie, “Top Gun” (Photo by Charles Starr/San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: U-T file photos of pilots and planes at Miramar Naval Air Station during the filming of Paramount Pictures “Top Gun” movie in the summer of 1985. (Staff Photographer / San Diego Union-Tribune)