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

Former Navy fighter pilot Scott Kartvedt takes us behind the scenes of flying in Top Gun: Maverick.

Scott discusses flying the F-18, the ins and outs of the Blue Angels, and dogfighting with a helicopter as a stunt pilot in Top Gun: Maverick!

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:06 Inspired to Fly
03:34 The F-18
04:00 The Blue Angels
06:27 Top Gun: Maverick
10:01 Commercial Pilots
10:48 Advice
11:46 Outro

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[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.

[raymondcoache]

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

[ddjslhomebase]

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

[J]

Fantastic interview, many thanks from the UK!

[stimmons]

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

[avatar]

"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 "

[KaarlHoopes]

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

[_k]

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.

[paulkrapp]

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

[smeary]

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

[sumtingwong]

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

[khurrammustaqeem]

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

[wayneyd]

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

[protomake]

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

[kilamp]

Which airplanes are in the back in hangar.

[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.

[P-J-W-]

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.

[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.