Top Gun: Maverick Stunt Pilot on Flying Under a Helicopter at 70 Feet | Behind the Wings

[@Wings_Museum]

Thanks Scott Kartvedt for sharing your many great stories! Drop your questions, and we'll get to as many as we can! Hear his full interview on Episode 40 of The Behind the Wings Podcast: wingsmuseum.org/resources/podcasts/behind-the-wings-the-podcast-s4-episode-40

[@charlespihlgren7580]

I'm just trying my asanity aaaaaaaa XXZccmn as

[@dublkrossr2059]

Awesome

[@avatar9520202]

"Own your errors" is the best advice you can get. I'm not a pilot, I work in IT (maintaining some really important systems, like NPPs for example ) and currently I'm mostly training the new guys. After every training they ask me for some advice and I always tell them "Admit your mistakes, don't try to cover them up and immediately ask for advice. I don't know a single person that was fired for making a mistake, but I know a few that was fired for lying "

[@16-BITFPV]

I'm not a doctor I just play one on TV

[@earld1403]

yep, exactly this. I'm also in IT and once made a mistake in production that I was sure that I was going to be fired for. Went to my boss, said that I made this mistake but by god I'm going to fix it. It not only kept me from being fired but also earned the respect from my boss that he could trust me (because nothings worse for a boss than getting blindsided)

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

100% accurate. When I hire new film crew, people who report and own their mistakes are the ones who get asked back. Those who hide and deny their mistakes do not get asked back. Like many jobs, film is a collaborative process which requires an acceptance of errors, efficient communication, and a coordinated team effort to accomplish our goals. Setbacks are inevitable, but setbacks which are intentionally hidden from us are sabotage. There’s no room for that in a team environment.

[@anthonyiodice]

What does some stupid clown from a Stephen King book have to do with planes?

[@anthonyiodice]

Able to select means selected btw 4:10

[@ddjslhomebase243]

I’d love to see the F-18’s dipping under the helicopter in the canyon. Wow.

[@J39444]

Fantastic interview, many thanks from the UK!

[@HRNTTWK]

Great interview Skipper. Proud to know you, served with you and had you as my retirement speaker. Keep it going! Salute from Chief Burke.

[@stimmons1969]

Glad to see CDR Kartvedt is having fun. He was my first CO at VFA 101, cheers from SECO

[@HRNTTWK]

He was awesome. Proud to have him at my retirement there. Chief Burke

[@Karen-to9lr]

My son is a Marine, flying a F-18, we're an average family, his mind was set on flying, Top Gun inspired him to join up and he made his way through training. He now trains those Navy & Marines pilots to fly.

[@RazorRadios]

only wish I had pursued this when I was young... still tear up watching this kind of content while the blood pumps away...

[@thewolfethatcould8878]

.."Ask to persue your dreams...". That is a beautiful statement.

[@sumtingwong8768]

This video is a net positive to the aviation community. Thank you, thank you!

[@andyf313]

This fantastic interview was edited so precisely, efficiently & effectively that it maintains & gains momentum throughout! It's the 1st video I've watched from this channel but it won't be the last, everyone involved must be phenomenal at their job. Well done.

[@F-15_Crew_Chief]

Love the context and humility. 🙏🏽

[@Remypooh3]

Awesome interview!! "Own your Errors" is such a great piece of advise! I have seen the Blue Angels and thank you for your service and commitment to such a special part of the US Navy!

[@bobbyagee3796]

I served with Mr. Kartvedt in 1996 Japan NAF Atsugi VFA 192 SSHWFGD BBSOB. Often we would took about him becoming a Blue Angels pilot. He was a Lieutenant then, I was an E4 AD (Aviation Mechenist Mate) (initial tasking as Plane Captain) low level maintainer. Mr. Kartvedt and I performed our aircraft start up procedure with style and flare. Harvey Grist was also a crew member as I and has a strong friendship with Mr. Kartvedt, he is just that type of person and has such a magnetic personality.

[@TRUCKSONVIDEO-CPPRODUCTI-eu7ur]

Thanks guys... great interview... absolutely loved Scott's life advice, real gems 👍

[@thomas6502]

Wow. Awesome. Thanks all for a great movie. And thank you for your service!

[@Raz-vh5gg]

Awesome interview.

[@TheMasheenist]

What an incredible interview, loved it!

[@raymondcoache7442]

The CDR came out to speak at our Sea Cadet unit and spoke with our cadets. The kids thoroughly enjoyed it and I think there were 40 kids ready to be the next generation of Navy Pilots. He is a great motivational speaker. EMCS USN Ret

[@KaarlHoopes]

Fantastic interview. I loved the incredible details behind the scenes of Top Gun II! ✈️

[@julietcc2005]

That"s so awesome.....behind the scenes, I so loved Kartvedts call sign "Intake". Truly one of the most amazing movies to demonstrate fascinating coordination and astonishing maneuvering. A favorite for sure. Great to have recognized Scott "Intake" Kartvedt, to have met him via this video. Thanks, so awesome to see inside sneak peaks to the making of such a stunning film.

[@thomasbaylark1002]

Amazing video! The humility shown by this exceptional, accomplished human being is exemplary! His statement about spending the day with Make A Wish kids hit hard. Always have and always will be a huge fan of the Blue Angels. Thanks for posting!

[@jeffscott3160]

Saw the original Top Gun at the theater my senior year in high school too. Definitely influenced my decision to join the Navy. I'm 6'4" so Tomcat driver was not in the cards for me. Those are little guys driving those jets. Great video!

[@smeary10]

Great interview and window into a great career. Many thanks from Australia. 🇦🇺🇺🇸

[@Connor-kv5cm]

great interview thanks!

[@buzzlightyear2490]

I do wish I could live my life over again but still, what amazing advice too. Iv have always been fascinated with flight with many friends of mine too. It was nice to here all you talk.

[@neiljudell1437]

You don't know El Centro until you've been there at the height of summer. The paint on the roof of my rented Mustang blistered in the sun.

[@mindfitnessmovement]

Wonderful three piece of Advice: Say Yes, admit mistakes, and just ask, 👍

[@AstroNot05]

Just stumbled upon this video, and i didn't know you were a stunt pilot in Topgun maverick, Scott! So cool! If you read this, much love from your relative in Norway!

[@rwjolley]

That was AWESOME!!!!!!

[@RazorRadios]

Awesome content, thanks for sharing.

[@khurrammustaqeem8194]

More than the top gun part, his own journey was so inspiring ❤ from 🇵🇰

[@davidian7787]

Mentioning the film industry brought to my mind a story I heard from an old test pilot called Geoff in the UK. He flew the Spitfire that does a low pass over a boy on a bicycle in the film, "A Bridge too Far". Representing a reconnaissance aircraft. Richard Attenborough, the director, was on a scaffold tower with the cameras and Geoff did a couple of passes but Attenborough said he wanted it lower. "Lower it is then", he told me. Apparently Attenborough jumped off the tower because he thought the aircraft would hit it. He was still flying a Russian biplane, owned by a friend, into his eighties.

[@Hucksty]

Nice interview!!

[@zwiftingwithdemonhunter]

That part about always asking is so true. As Brian Schul would say, "Make them say no."

[@jpdemer5]

They sure as hell won't say yes if you _don't_ ask.

[@TCCTaylor]

Hang on, the final fight scene featuring the F14 & Russian jet (the footage you are showing ) is using CGI aircraft. It might be based on some real underlying reference, but it’s largely created digitally. This should be acknowledged as should the digital artists that created that end battle sequence.

[@Wings_Museum]

Scott was flying the Czech-built Aero L-39 and the visual effects team would ‘re-skin’ the stand-in planes with the necessary ones. While some CGI was used, many of the flying maneuvers, airspeeds, altitudes, etc. are real. Kudos to the digital team for their work on the movie!

[@TCCTaylor]

@@Wings_Museum thanks for the clarification. 👍

[@mike_k.]

@@Wings_Museum Thats right but doesnt make the Taylors point any less accurate. The new trend of calling it "real" while its reskined or otherwise CGI altered is just nonsense. We all know that it was reskinned its old news so its time to call it for what it is. "I was flying XY Jet and they reskined it to modern more expensive one. Everything about the flying is real a footage. Thats whats real." And noone would say a word.

[@13_13k]

Nice video. I grew up with LAX airport on the land that my neighborhood is located. It's also surrounded by airports, Howard Hughes Helicopter manufacturing plant and its private airstrip was only blocks away, Santa Monica Airport just 4 miles away, Hawthorne Airport only 5 or 6 miles away, Torrance, Compton, Van Nuys, etc... plus my family and friends we'd also go out to the desert to ride dirtbikes and offtoading, camping near Edwards AFB, we'd go to all the air shows every year at all the different locations in SoCal. Southern California is the place where hot rodding, aerospace, off roading in the desert were born. I took advantage of all of those and more outdoor activities. I still haven't seen the new Top Gun movie mainly because I work in film and tv production and we work very long hours almost everyday for months at a time and it kinda takes the magic out of watching movies and tv shows. It's more fun making them than watching them, most of the time.

[@LRRPFco52]

SoCal in the 1970s-1980s was a Golden era in military aerospace, riding in the desert, and being free. Spent most of 1974-1993 at Edwards, with some excursions to West Germany and UTTR. We loved the Edwards, El Toro, China Lake, Miramar, and Point Mugu air shows. Never missed Edwards if we were there from the 70s until 1993.

[@13_13k]

@@LRRPFco52 --- we must have seen one another because my friends and I went to all those same air shows throughout those same years. I also had my father who was the executive supervisor for purchasing at Hughes Optical and Data Systems for the Hughes Missiles and Guidance Division in El Segundo and my parents house in Westchester, home of LAX, was less than one mile from Hughes Helicopters Manufacturing Division and as kids and teenagers we would sit on the Bluffs of Loyola Marymount University that overlooked the Hughes facility and the single longest private runway in the U.S. and we'd get lucky and see helicopters doing test flights. I also remember as a little kid, some of my earliest memories starting around 1969 and through the early '70s, mostly during summertime because we'd be outside and the sun doesn't set until 8 or almost 9 o'clock and regularly we'd see missiles and rockets flying through the sky launched from Pt.Magu or maybe Hueynemi(spelling?), you could also see military fighter planes at Hawthorne Airport. Just a few blocks from my house was Northrop University and on their little campus of 3 or 4 buildings there was an open area between buildings that had fuselages of a couple fighter jets and helicopters and we could climb into the Hughey and I think it was an early MIG that was open. If I remember there was a Starfighter or a Sabre also. It was pretty cool growing up near all that stuff. I should have been more into that world having so much at such close proximity. But, I was your more typical SoCal kid into surfing, skateboarding, baseball, football, motorcycles and cars, I don't know why but being into airplanes and rockets and military stuff was considered kinda nerdy. To me, having LAX in my backyard, and in those days we could ride our bikes or skateboards all over the airport even onto the runways. We always had a fieldtrip in school to tour LAX almost every year. When you walked from the terminals to the baggage pickup and passengers walk the long corridors or used the flat escalator type moving floor there are always large white unrolled butcher paper about 4ft tall and and about 20ft long taped on the walls and there was artwork drawn or painted by elementary school students from the five public elementary schools in Westchester on display for the international passengers to see. Lots of good and some bad memories from those days. We had to practice air raid drills on the last Thursday of every month at 10 am the air raid sirens across the city would fire up and we had to stop and drop under our desks and use our hands and arms to protect the back of our head and remain there in that balled up position until the sirens turned of about 2 minutes later. I don't think that would have helped us much if we were getting bombed for real. Ahh the Cold War and Vietnam I remember them well.

[@joeblow5037]

Did a 7 month Med cruise on the brand spankin new USS Nimitz with VMFA-333 in F-4J's. (MOS-6657) Best time a19 year old could ever have. Semper Fi, Scott!!

[@SomeGuyFromOK]

How the heck does this not have more views?!?

[@douglasagee6859]

Love the insights! I totally agree with the just ask! I wanted to be a pilot from Age 5 and I started flying at age 12 working at the local airport washing and fueling planes and soloed gliders at 14 and fixed wing at 16. After two years of college I went into the Air Force and couldn't get a commissioning program due to the number of banked pilots..... I then did and interservice transfer to the Army to fly choppers. Long story short, I finished my military career an AH-64D Longbow Maintenance Test Flight Evaluator and Instructor Pilot. All I did was ask and most times they said yes!!!! NEVER ACCEPT NO!

[@OldManPaxusYT]

10:48 I'm old - believe this: *THIS IS GREAT LIFE ADVICE **_for ALL,_** and 100% TRUE!*

[@khurrammustaqeem8194]

We all wanted to be a fighter pilot ❤

[@fredtuerk8983]

We just saw him "The Patriots" fly at Salinas Air Show '24 they were so good 👍

[@strubs16]

Amazing

[@margaretstutts4362]

He did it my dad’s way. Dad wasn’t a fighter pilot but he was a OCS Navy officer.

[@RetreadPhoto]

Best quote on Tom Cruise was from Matt Damon, said one time he said “I wanted to do this stunt for 20 years. My safety guy kept saying we can’t do that. So… I get another safety guy.” They did the stunt. He’ll bury in some day flying, he won’t let himself die old.

[@renanbovolin]

Blue angel and top gun… best matcj

[@Maximo746]

In awe... :-)

[@AB7F9]

Good advice. Owning mistakes is important.

[@keokiheller4351]

Epic video🤙🏽

[@dublkrossr2059]

Go Navy! Baddest and biggest with our faithful Jarheads

[@pahtar7189]

11:10 The willingness to own your errors is a virtue sadly missing from the majority of corporate executives and especially politicians.

[@anthonysaponaro6318]

Without question bro !

[@paulkrapp]

A fighter pilot pulls more g's than astronauts. 🤘😆🤘🛩

[@wayneyd2]

During my training at Mother Rucker. I always tell my IP what I did wrong before he tell me what I did wrong. 😁

[@sakaj]

I definitely have lived on his advice during my career in military. As they say, nothing ventured nothing gained and a closed mouth don’t get fed!

[@protomake1349]

@11:41 If you don't ask, you don't get.

[@darkknightwithanidea1845]

Great guy ! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼✒️🎥🇫🇷

[@fallinginthed33p]

Intake is a better callsign than FOD 😂

[@jacoblindemann7242]

can you fly the F-18 on one engine ?

[@sevenhornets]

Yes

[@kilamp]

Which airplanes are in the back in hangar.

[@Wings_Museum]

Cessna O-1 Bird Dog, Varga 2150 Kachina, Beechcraft T-34 Mentor... they are all airworthy at our second location Exploration of Flight.

[@terrencejackson4587]

“I left a better person!” I stopped watching after this because it was a statement from the heart.

[@shoop4040]

" WOW "

[@slick1ton849]

4:00; John Force has entered the chat....

[@bobdavis6732]

I have had F-4 fly under me in a UH-1E around 20 feet. Thought the helicopter was going to come apart when we went through the exhaust stream. Not the most fun you can have.

[@P-J-W-777]

He says the only others to have that rocket ship experience was astronauts. I’d beg to say F-15, F-16 pilots had that experience and even more as the F-16 was more maneuverable, the F-15 was just as maneuverable but more powerful. Then you have the crazy jets like the crazy maneuvering F-22 and the really fast SR-71. Sorry to say I’m not a big fan of the F-18 Super Hornet primarily because of the way it came to come into service and I don’t believe it’s the aircraft the Navy needs or actually ever wanted. What’s funny is that most other pilots actually laugh at the movie and some of the stuff that is done. The fact the hornets flew the final mission when in reality it would have more likely been the F-35. The other funny thing is that Maverick was testing basically the SR-72. The SR-71 was never a Navy aircraft and the SR-72 would likely never be a Navy aircraft either. Maverick also did so many things that would have gotten him permanently grounded.

[@riverratt8626]

It's a fictional movie, relax buddy, it's Hollywood.

[@P-J-W-777]

@@riverratt8626 No shit! They are however representing the real world Navy. Get facts right within the limits of national security. There were parts of the movie that was really good but the original was leaps and bounds better.

[@anthonysaponaro6318]

It is the Aircraft the Navy Needed, most of the pilots love their F-18 Suoer Hornets . The Super Hornet is no easy victory vs her enemies, especially with F-35 out there now .

[@P-J-W-777]

@@anthonysaponaro6318 well my comment about unwanted was based on the legacy hornet as it was an absolute disaster. Gutless, could barely get off the deck with any weaponry. Didn’t have the range or the ability to replace the F-14. And so on and so on… One of the reasons I don’t care for the super hornet is the way it won the contract. When the companies presented their new aircraft designs to replace the legacy hornet they were instructed that their designs could not be redesigns of current aircraft that they had to be an all new aircraft. So what did they do? Make it bigger a few more features and add “super” to its name. 2 other companies especially one lost out even though it had shown serious potential and had been working closely with the Navy for years. We all know the VP at the time had their hand in the cookie jar and chose the F-18 for financial reasons. Anywho, the Navy needs a front line fighter that’s equivalent to or better than the F-22. No the F-35 is not an air superiority/dominance fighter. Just like the F-35 the F-18 is multirole. Meaning it’s good at few things and just okay at others. Dedicated aircraft built for very specific jobs along with well trained pilots will ensure the Navy always has the advantage. The A-6 was very good at its job. The E-2 Hawkeye is very good at its job. They are asking the F-18 to do too much in order to sale more airframes and keep production alive because we sale the platform to other nations. I get it parts commonality makes maintenance easier. I’ve heard several crossover pilots talk about both the F-18 and the F-16 and the F-15. They have all pretty much said similar things. The F-18 is the family suburban good when you need to love the family around but the F-16 is the Ferrari or Lamborghini that you take out when you want to go fast and have a lot of fun. They’ve basic said the F-15 is just a beast with lots of power, lots of speed and will maneuver extremely well for a fighter of its size and that its combat record says all you need to know.

[@FINALLYOUTAFTER7]

The ability to receive feedback and fix mistakes. Interesting.

[@ThePixelbuilder]

Eurofighter Typhoon has the highest unloaded T/W ratio of aprox. 1.67 ... thats a rocket ship ;)

[@Jimmy-xi6dp]

I wonder what mistake he made that scored him the callsign 'Intake'

[@algrosskurth7994]

If you mess up, fess up. I’m an old A-7 and then F/A-18 pilot… good life lesson

[@ricusmate]

Footage of the final fight shown was an F14 and an SU 57. There is no way that could be real or the flying he's talking about.

[@Wings_Museum]

Scott was flying the Czech-built Aero L-39 and the visual effects team would ‘re-skin’ the stand-in planes with the necessary ones. While some CGI was used, many of the flying maneuvers, airspeeds, altitudes, etc. are real.

[@p.c.9714]

​@@Wings_Museum Amazing details, thank you.

[@anthonysaponaro6318]

ASK! They jut might .

[@phillipshepherd1465]

Crazy oaks, pilots. No fear. Hate driving, that's why they fly!

[@Bene_Factum]

Man, I so wanted to be a pilot after watching Top Gun. I wanted to be a Hog driver... but I was 6'4", so I became a ground pounder instead.

[@JimDarr-hx8ld]

Sierra hotel

[@OldManPaxusYT]

LOL i am not 100% on aviation laws in America but in Australia those stunts (like the river scene and the helicopter they keep mentioning), are soooOOOooOoo illegal! 🤣 That's what a love about America, so much more 'JUST DO IT'ness than here! Go big or go home! GREAT VIDEO!!!! Well made - Great interview too! ↑ Comment for your algorithm + *👍 'd* + _previously _*_Sub'd!_* - EXTRA KUDOS FOR PUTTING TIME-STAMPS!! I can't stand big channels that are too lazy, too greedy & have ZERO RESPECT 4 VIEWERS and do not put them in! #OldManPaxus Rating: ★★★★

[@senseisecurityschool9337]

I don't know about Australia, but in the US it's amazing what you're allowed to do IF YOU FILL OUT THE PAPERWORK and do it safely. All that stuff would be totally illegal in the US too - unless you first talk to the FAA and figure out how to do it safely. The rules are about being safe. You can get a waiver, it just requires doing the paperwork to show you'll be safe. Personally, I have a letter authorizing me to possess and use explosives. I also have license allowing me to use 1500X as much RF broadcast power as my friends, 1500 times as much as would normally be legal. I just had to learn how to do these things safely and fill out the paperwork.

[@topturretgunner]

Blasting under a helicopter at 70 feet has to be an insane adrenaline rush. Flying like this if you’re going to succeed as a pilot you must be willing to own and learn from your errors. Otherwise have a good life insurance policy and last will in place.

[@vanderloo1978]

I know they filmed a lot real scenes. Although, so much of it looks CGI even when it is not.

[@spinnenente]

it was all real. except for a lot of cgi. great dude but the no cgi thing is just false.

[@lonnyself3920]

Past the test to be a pilot just not the physical like most . radar missile operations

[@sevenhornets]

Unfortunately my time on the team was tainted by scandal. Capt. McWhorter was court marshaled by my former MO ADM Shoemaker Which I have the privilege of working with Lockheed Martin on the F-35 program.

[@Ackermanmedia]

Wow this guy and I almost had the same story....the only difference is he DID all the stuff he said he wanted to do and I chased a woman and ended up doing what she told me to do for 30 years.

[@KuostA]

wow that's sad. do u regret chasing after her then? what did u end up doing in the end then?

[@Ackermanmedia]

@@KuostA I don't regret it only because I had fun and I had two amazing kids. Now that I am done with woman and kids are almost grown I'm going to go start all over again. Shooting a TV show, building a large truffle orchard and dog rescue and will do stuff I could never have done while married.

[@KuostA]

@@Ackermanmedia when you say 'done with woman', what does that mean exactly. As in it didn't work out and you got divorced and you don't plan on entertaining dealing with women anymore and will just do your own thing now for the rest of your life? I really respect that if so! Do YOU and follow your dreams and do whatever makes you happy man!!!

[@d_pete361]

Never "ask" to pursue your dreams or you'll never achieve them.

[@sambuvca22]

Hate to say this because im a big fan of Toms but if he doesn't stop with these stunts there will be no more Tom Cruise

[@gustavoortega5634]

Stunt pilot? a NAVY pilot you mean

[@tommynikon2283]

Make them tell you no. The only failure in life is not trying.

[@DazDc]

Let's be honest. F18 is not a rocket ship.

[@bauckham85]

"The first year I flied"? Really? How about "the first year I flew"...

[@RetreadPhoto]

Best quote on Tom Cruise was from Matt Damon, said one time he said “I wanted to do this stunt for 20 years. My safety guy kept saying we can’t do that. So… I get another safety guy.” They did the stunt. He’ll bury in some day flying, he won’t let himself die old.