LEISURE: Feel the need for speed with Top Gun movie at the Fleet Air Arm Museum

A FILM fan is planning on screening the smash-hit movie Top Gun starring Tom Cruise on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier experience at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at RNAS Yeovilton.

People will be able to sit amongst the fighter jets and – as is said in the film – “feel the need for speed” as Top Gun is screened on Saturday, February 25, 2017.

“It’s going to be amazing,” said Paul Bodgers who runs his own film club called Starlight Cinema.

Paul, of Ilminster, has already shown a number of films outdoors in the town at Britten’s Field by the Archie Gooch Pavilion with his inflatable giant screen.

But now he is looking forward to putting on his most ambitious event to date.

“We are delighted to have teamed up with the Fleet Air Arm Museum to give people the opportunity to watch Top Gun as never seen before,” he said.

“We will be showing the iconic film on a 30ft projection screen sat up amongst the fighter jets.”

Entry includes access to view Concorde and fighter jets before the film, while bar, drinks and cinema snacks will be on sale in the lobby beneath Concorde.

“Tickets are of a limited availability and won’t be available to be bought on the door for this event,” added Paul.

The film will start at 7.30pm, but doors will open at 6pm to allow people plenty of time to have a good look around.

Tickets are priced £14.95 for adults and £9.95 for children aged 15 and under.

They are available from Starlight Cinema website at http://www.starlight-cinema.co.uk/#main .

It is scary to think that the Top Gun movie was made in 1986 – 30 years ago – and starred the likes of Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards and Tom Skerritt.

The movie centres around Lt Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise), a young Naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, and his Radar Intercept Officer Nick “Goose” Bradshaw (Edwards) who are given the chance to train at the Navy’s Fighter Weapons School at Miramar in San Diego.

With plenty of fast-moving action in the air, there is also plenty of romance between Cruise’s character and that of Top Gun instructor Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood, played by McGills.

The movie has a superb sound track and the flight deck of the aircraft carrier experience at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at RNAS Yeovilton, near Yeovil, should provide a fantastic backdrop for the film.

PHOTO - ABOVE: Tom Cruise as Lt Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the 1986 movie Top Gun.

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