#TBSD: Danger zone
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)
Oct. 8, 1987. Cindy and Martin Blair, owners of Kansas City Barbeque, a popular restaurant made famous by its scene in the movie “Top Gun.” The Blairs were paid a day’s gross to close the restaurant on July 13, 1985. There the cast belted out, “Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire!” Two weeks later, director Tony Scott returned for some “pickup shots,” seen at the film’s close. (Photo by Howard Lipin/San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: 1987 U-T file photo of Cindy and Martin Blair, owners of Kansas City Barbecue at 610 W. Market Street, a restaurant featured in Paramount Pictures movie “Top Gun.” (Howard Lipin / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer stand in front of the movie poster at the benefit West Coast premiere of the film “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Photo by Bob Redding/The San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: U-T file photos at the West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Bob Redding / San Diego Union-Tribune)
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)
A jet 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)
Pete Pettigrew is a technical adviser to the movie “Top Gun,” which has been filming at Miramar Naval Air Station since June. (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)
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)
Director Tony Scott arrives at the benefit West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Photo by Bob Redding/The San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: U-T file photos at the West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Bob Redding / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Instructor Lt. Michael Blue gets ready for takeoff at the Navy Fighter Weapons School, known as Top Gun, at Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego, California. (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)
Jets take off at the Navy Fighter Weapons School, better known as Top Gun at Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego, California, on Aug. 14, 1985, during on-location filming for the Paramount 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)
Pete Pettigrew, technical adviser to the movie “Top Gun,” watches filming 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)
Film crew on the set of “Top Gun,” 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)
Director Tony Scott shares a laugh with actor Anthony Edwards at the benefit West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Photo by Bob Redding/The San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: U-T file photos at the West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Bob Redding / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Actor Anthony Edwards with producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer at the benefit West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Photo by Bob Redding/The San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: U-T file photos at the West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Bob Redding / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Director Tony Scott with actor Anthony Edwards at the benefit West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Photo by Bob Redding/The San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: U-T file photos at the West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Bob Redding / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer stand in front of the movie poster at the benefit West Coast premiere of the film “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Photo by Bob Redding/The San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: U-T file photos at the West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Bob Redding / San Diego Union-Tribune)
At the benefit West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986, actor Anthony Edwards, who portrays Lt. Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, an easygoing radar intercept officer, had praise for San Diego as a movie filming locale. “The filming went extremely smooth,” Edwards said. “I’m crazy about the place.” (Photo by Bob Redding/The San Diego Union-Tribune) User Upload Caption: U-T file photos at the West Coast premiere of the movie “Top Gun” at Mann’s Cinema 21 in Mission Valley on May 15, 1986. (Bob Redding / San Diego Union-Tribune)
February 5, 2014_Oceanside, California_USA_| View of the 125 year old “Top Gun House,” on Pacific St. near the Pier. Scenes from the 1986 Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun” were filmed there. Workers from MC Painting, of Vista, are prepping it for painting they say will be done by Friday. It’ll be painted yellow and white. It’s a temporary paint job until it’s moved a block north next year to make way for a beach resort. It’ll have a complete restoration then when it’s incorporated into the resort, possibly as a gift shop or ice cream shop, or some other use to be determined by the resort’s developer. |_Mandatory Photo Credit: Photo by Charlie Neuman/UT San Diego/Copyright 2014 San Diego Union-Tribune, LLC (Charlie Neuman / UT San Diego/Zuma Press)