can any one tell me the blatent mistakes in the tom cruise film TOP GUN?

* Continuity: Stinger's ribbons on his chest.

* Continuity: The armament and position of the wings of the F-14s change in midair.

* Factual errors: While it is possible for the two aircraft to get canopy to canopy like we saw during the beginning of the movie, the F-14 in 1986 couldn't sustain an inverted state for more than two minutes. This is due to the Number 4 1/2 bearing in the TF30-P414 engine used at that time not having a return pump for the oil. In the length of time it would take for the aircraft to get into position, the engines on the Tomcat would have failed. When this scene was shot, it was the F-5 that was inverted.

* Continuity: The shot of the inverted F-14 cockpit (close to the cockpit of the MiG-28) is flipped, (lettering is reversed).

* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Navy rules state on tactical jets, oxygen shall be worn from takeoff until landing, a rule broken throughout the movie. Real Navy/Marine Corps pilots break this rule all the time as well.

* Continuity: In the elevator, Charlie's ear alternates between being tucked under her cap and being untucked between shots.

* Continuity: The distance between the aircraft after Goose takes the picture.

* Factual errors: During most flight sequences, safety pins and star wheels on left top head box of MBU GRU-8 ejection seat are installed. Thus the seat is not armed and in any inverted maneuvers, seats would slide off ejection gun rails.

* Continuity: The squadron markings on both Iceman and Maverick's Tomcats change a few times. Both of the original markings are not real Tomcats squadron markings.

* Continuity: Maverick's wristwatch changes several times during the training flight.

* Continuity: During the final dogfight we several shot of Goose in the co-pilot seat when obviously he is dead and Merlin is Maverick's "rear".

* Continuity: In hop 19, Hollywood and Maverick are chasing Jester while Viper gets away. Hollywood's plane is in front of Maverick's but when Maverick breaks away to go after Viper, it is the F-14 in front that pulls away.

* Revealing mistakes: In many scenes with aircraft on the ground, missiles are shown loaded onto aircraft with blue stripes painted on them. Blue is the color code for inert ordnance. These missiles are for practice and cannot be fired at targets.

* Continuity: Maverick's watch before and after the training flight.

* Continuity: Maverick's tailhook retracts too quickly when he decides to rescue Cougar. Additionally, it is visible in a later shot.

* Continuity: Charlie gains her folder when she exits the ladies room.

* Continuity: Iceman suddenly appears next to Wolfman in the locker.

* Continuity: Maverick's hair during the elevator scene.

* Continuity: When Maverick is cruising on his motorcycle right after arriving at Miramar, it is high noon. In the very next shot, the sun is setting.

* Continuity: Before Maverick and Goose depart for Miramar, Stinger tells them that the Top Gun school lasts five weeks. Later in the film, Charlie tells Maverick (during their hallway conversation) the school last eight weeks.

* Continuity: In the elevator scene, Maverick walks through a "closed" elevator door.

* Continuity: Maverick's arms alternate between on his cheek, in his lap and folded between shots during Viper's lecture at the beginning of the picture.

* Continuity: First date between Charlie and Maverick, level of wine in bottle goes down then up and down then up and then some before the first drop is poured.

* Continuity: During the initial flight scenes with the MiG-28's, when Maverick is visible on the screen, Sundown's helmet (orange and white stripes) is reflected on the cockpit canopy. This is noticeable above and behind Maverick on the upper left side of the canopy.

* Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After Iceman says the alternate trophy for the runners-up is in the ladies room, Goose starts to laugh. In one shot, his hand isn't on Maverick's shoulder, but when he finishes laughing, it is.

* Continuity: Numerous positional inconsistencies during the volleyball game.

* Continuity: Through most of the first class at Top Gun, Slider has his arm behind Iceman, but right before he says, "The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room," Slider suddenly disappears.

* Continuity: Maverick Leaves the volleyball game with no belt on. He arrives at Charlie's house with one on

* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While all Navy pilots must have NOMEX flight gloves with them, they are not required to (and in fact, do not always) wear them.

* Continuity: Amount of ice in Maverick's glass in the airport bar.

* Continuity: Viper's sunglasses after Maverick's first landing after the accident.

* Factual errors: Any airborne fighter craft engaging in aerial combat without jettisoning the external fuel tanks is asking for trouble. Maneuvering, speed, acceleration, and lift are sacrificed when carrying external fuel tanks, not to mention the fact that they are not armored at all, so any hits on said tanks would cause an almost certain fully engulfing detonation. Thus, any regulated aerial combat division requires the jettisoning of the external fuel tanks is strictly forbidden. Maverick's plane is seen after landing, the external fuel tanks clearly still attached.

* Revealing mistakes: When Maverick is riding his motorcycle along the runway, you can see the tie-down straps that hold him onto the trailer, visible on his front fender.

* Continuity: Supposedly the final dogfight happens over water, yet a mountain is visible in the corner of one shot.

* Continuity: Maverick fires the same missile from the same wing station at least three times.

* Continuity: The lettering on the front of Sundown's helmet disappears once he and Maverick are back on the ground after their first flight together.

* Revealing mistakes: The signal that Maverick is given before he takes off for the final fight scene is not the launch signal, but rather the "remove power" signal. This signal is given early in F-14 launch procedures, not right before launch.

* Continuity: Maverick's sunglasses are (not) on when Slider picks him up after they return to the carrier.

* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: "Ladies Room" sign on the window of the toilets isn't inverted when Maverick goes inside. That's because we're looking in a mirror.

* Revealing mistakes: In the bar scene when Goose is playing "Great Balls of Fire, " the movement of his hands does not match the music.

* Continuity: Position of the wine bottle at Charlie's place.

* Continuity: Toward the end of the movie, when Maverick is waiting on "Alert Five, " the camera cuts between Maverick in the cockpit and outside, where carrier crew are working on "his" plane. The plane they are working on is actually an A-6 Intruder, not an F-14.

* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Goose is depicted as a Lt (jg) and wears the proper insignia: on a white uniform, shoulder boards with one thick gold bar and one thin, and in khakis, a single silver bar (a full lieutenant wears double silver bars). (Some thought he was wearing full lieutenant insignia; they are similar.)

* Continuity: In stairwell Iceman puts on watch twice.

* Factual errors: U.S. Pilots never report an enemy plane as a MiG. They are required to say the NATO call sign for the appropriate aircraft, such as "Fishbed" for a MiG-21 or "Fulcrum" for a MiG-29.

* Continuity: When Maverick is riding his motorcycle alongside the runway, after the F-14 takes off and turns to the left the shot changes and shows Maverick riding past lighting standards heading toward the runway as indicated by the strobe lights.

* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The insignia for a Navy Lieutenant happen to be the same as for Army and Air Force Captains. Thus, Maverick and Iceman are correctly wearing Lieutenant insignia.

* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Charlotte Blackwood is supposed to be an "astrophysicist" training Navy pilots. While this specific discipline isn't relevant to flight training, her general math/science background surely is.

* Crew or equipment visible: When Maverick is driving his motorcycle along the runway with the planes taking off, you can see the bed of the truck he's atop at the bottom of the screen.

* Revealing mistakes: After Iceman is hit for the first time in the final dogfight, the smoke maker on the back of his Tomcat is clearly visible, emitting smoke.

* Continuity: When the F-14 engines flame out before the flat spin, Goose says, "Engine one is out," and the next shot shows the number two (right) engine "flaming out". When Goose says, "Engine two is out," we see the number one (left) engine "flaming out". (The flame outs are actually the engines being normally brought out of afterburner.)

* Continuity: After diner at Charlie's, Maverick and Charlie have a talk and in the background there's a parrot eating a peanut (sitting on one leg). The peanut disappears and reappears between shots.

* Continuity: Navy pilots fly with the oxygen mask designated MBU-14/p, which in the movie is correctly depicted. But, after Goose ejects and is shown dead and bleeding in the water, he is wearing an MS220001 oxygen mask which was used in the '50s, '60s and very early '70s. It is not in use today.

* Factual errors: The term "bogey" is misused throughout the movie. A bogey is an unidentified aircraft. Once identified, it is referred to as a "friendly" (for friendly aircraft), "bandit" (for non-friendly aircraft) or "hostile" (for non-friendly aircraft that may be fired at). In USN terminology, a non-friendly surface radar contact is a "skunk".

* Continuity: When Maverick leaves Charlie's house after he has dinner with her, there is a For Rent sign in her yard (as there is when he drives by her house later in the movie), but there wasn't one when he arrived.

* Factual errors: Many errors are made when describing maneuvers that various aircraft have made. This is especially noticeable during the briefing before the first hop.

* Continuity: When Charlie gives Maverick a dinner invitation, she clearly writes it on a form, but on close up of the invitation, it is written on a blank sheet of paper.

* Revealing mistakes: When Maverick is launching from the carrier before the final battle, he goes directly into a roll when leaving ship. An F-14 taking off with full tanks of fuel wouldn't have gained enough speed to do this so soon. You can see while filming this (rear mounted camera), the plane that does the roll comes from a low-level flyby over side of the carrier. Also, the catapult Maverick supposedly launched from is "stacked" with parked aircraft.

* Factual errors: When Charlie chases down Maverick on his motorcycle her car has a blue DOD decal on its windshield. Blue decals are used for officers, red decals, for enlisted. As a civilian employee she would have had a green DOD decal for her car.

* Continuity: After Charlie hands out the dinner invitation to Maverick, Slider tells him "Crash and burn, huh, Mav?" while holding a plane model in front of his face. In the very next shot the plane disappears.

* Continuity: Maverick and Iceman seem to change planes during the final fight scene. Maverick launches in an F-14 bearing a 104 on the nose. Once he lands he exits an F-14 with 114 on the nose while Iceman exits an F-14 with 114 on the nose.

* Continuity: During the first hop, the sky is clear with minimal cloud cover most of the time, but in the shot near the end of the hop where we see the F-14 chasing the A-4 from above, the sky is extremely cloudy.

* Continuity: On hop 31, the planes clearly take off early in the morning, but once they're off the ground, it's high noon.

* Continuity: when Maverick has dinner with Charlie, he discusses how much his "folks love this music" while "Dock of the Bay" is playing. His father went missing in 1965 but this song was only recorded in December 1967 and not released till the new year.

* Continuity: In the opening sequence, where Maverick and Cougar engage the two MiGs, there's a mountain range in the background of some shots, but the action is set in the middle of the ocean.

The casting of Tom Cruise.

The only mistake in that movie is Tom Cruise being cast in it! I am so sick of Tom Cruise! I never want to see any of his movies again!

Continuity: 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.

Revealing: 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.

Continuity: During the whole elevator scene with Mav and Charlie, her earrings change.

Continuity: The Navy allowed only one live missile shot for the filming of the movie. Maybe that is why we see so many missiles fired from an empty rack.

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

Visible crew/equipment: When Goose and Maverick are in the sea after their plane crashes, look carefully, there's a thin black rope latching onto Maverick and the camera crew's boat. Look carefully and you will see it.

Continuity: Throughout the film Maverick's plane has the number "114" on it. However, at the end when he is waiting on deck, the number has changed to "104". This is actually Iceman's plane, which has already taken off. When Maverick launches, the number has changed back to "114" again.

Visible crew/equipment: When Maverick and Goose are in the water after ejecting you can clearly see the boat that films them.

Continuity: In the final battle scene, which takes place way out over the water, in some of the F-14 shots, mountains can be seen in the background.

Other: In the last dogfight, we see four MIGs circling around Iceman, trying to get him down. A few moments after, Maverick gets to the scene, and the same shot is being used.

Revealing: Near the end of the movie, when Maverick's plane is about to be launched, there is a quick closeup of an F14's nose gear, which is quite obviously not hooked up to a catapult or anything else.

Continuity: 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.

Continuity: In the final dog fight scene, Maverick is flying with Merlin as his co-pilot. Merlin's helmet is purple and can be seen many times behind Maverick. In one scene though, the helmet behind Maverick's is orange, which is Sundown's colour.

Continuity: When Maverick rides his motorcycle up the hill to Charlie's house, the sun is just about to set in the background. He stays at Charlie's a while, they drink some wine, then he leaves. As he is leaving, the sun is still setting in the background.

Continuity: In a scene soon after Cruise's partner dies, when he's flying with his new partner, you can 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.

Factual error: In the last battle. Mav is ordered to launch his alert five. While hooking up to the catapult we see a man holding his left hand flat and placing two fingers sideways into it. That means you are plugging in an external power source. You would not do that during launch.

Continuity: During the opening sequence of "cat shots" off the carrier deck, an F-14 is hooked into a catapult. As it's being launched, the camera switches to a deck member ducking as it goes by in the background. However, the plane going by is actually an A-6 Intruder.

Factual error: 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.

Continuity: In the elevator scene Kelly McGillis's hair is a different colour (I think a shade of red) than earlier or later in the film. Apparently this scene was filmed months after Top Gun filming was complete while McGillis was shooting another film. This explains the baseball cap and ponytail.

Continuity: After the class where they meet Charlie for the first time, and Maverick reveals that he's "the one", he's confronted by Iceman. The Iceman asks him who was watching Cougar, while he was "show boating" with this MiG. If you watch Iceman you'll see that he puts his watch on twice.

This is just page one of about 99 mistakes.

They flew in F-14s, when all scientologists know that DC-8 like spacecraft are the preferred method of flight.

They looked like a bunch of shirt lifters, especially Tom (I'm not a dwarf) Cruse.

Um, the only one I know off the top of my head is that one of the girls calls him "Tom" in the movie instead of his character name.

the biggest mistake is the fact that the so called "migs" are not migs at all but trainers used by the US

Jake N' Shake nailed it.

When he takes off from the aircraft carrier it's not him, I think?

you mean like the migs weren't really migs, or there is no way you can manuver that much in a cockpit,.......