Simon Mayo
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He sent us like a split screen thing.
And at the top, so this is like the text that comes up at the beginning.
of Top Gun, right, Top Gun 1986.
It says, on March the 3rd, 1969, the United States Navy established an elite school for the top 1% of its pilots.
Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to ensure, I-N-S-U-R-E, that the handful of men, blah, blah, blah, they succeeded.
Today, the Navy calls it Fighter Weapon School.
The Flyers call it Top Gun.
Top Gun.
Right.
And then Top Gun Maverick has exactly the same scroll, except that lost out of aerial combat and to Ensure, E-N-S-U-R-E, that the handful of men.
Okay, so the Flyers called it Top Gun.
So in between Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick, they learnt to spell.
To spell.
Jonathan Smith, Geography, Grade B. Thank you very much indeed.
Anyway, I think we know.
There's more Top Gun in a moment.
But anyway, at number 10, it's Athiradi.
Yes, and it's number 11 in America, so it's doing very well all over again.
Number eight here, six over there, the Super Mario Galaxy movie.
Number seven is The Christophers.