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we all know the scene in Top Gun where
they fly upside down over the ridge line
we're going to find the exact location
of that scene and we're going to fly it
in Google Earth
all right we'll head to Target and come
home
hi everyone and welcome back to Let's
geolocate I'm Ben and this is round two
so settle in get your Maps ready and
let's get started
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first like any good bit of research
we're going to start with Google and
we're going to plug in some Search terms
I've added mountains in there to make
sure that we find something
we can see that there's a few different
results let's have a look at this one it
even credits a Twitter user looks like
we have a lot of locations in here this
article thinks it might be Washington's
Cascade Mountains so let's check out
that place on Google Earth that looks to
be a pretty big area let's go a little
bit deeper you can see a lot of these
articles are kind of celebrity or media
articles this one refers to the older
version of Top Gun
we've also got some other ones like for
example fire up magazine what do they
look at they give some locations but not
really precise I want to get more exact
by looking at this one NW hikers it
looks like these people on this forum
are pretty exact as to where some of
these locations have been filmed one
person thinks that it might be around 10
Peak mountain
here's the location of 10 Peak mountain
let's go to our scene in Top Gun and see
if we can match it
we can see that they fly over and this
is where they turn over at that point
and we can see the other side of it here
as well
there's a part of the scene where we can
also see from the mountain how it looks
like when the Jets go through
notice that if we have a look at 10 Peak
mountain
the ridgelines aren't really exact this
is a problem with Google Earth is that
it rounds a lot of edges
whereas this in real life would appear
quite Jagged so let's have a look around
and see if we can find a little Match
Point as to where those might have come
through
my thoughts and similar to what's shared
in the Forum is that it's this location
right here
so let's have a look at that location in
comparison to the video footage in the
video we can see that there's little
Peaks coming out specifically two little
Peaks like this one and then another on
this right side one way we can actually
try to find those is by looking at the
Shadows here notice that we've got this
peak with a slow rise
there seems to be one here
and then a sharp increase
it goes down and then a little knob
on this side we've actually got
something a little bit different it's a
rise it could be that one right there
we can also go for a historical View and
maybe see what the top of this mountain
range looks like when the Shadows are
pointing a different way
see the peaks of the same back in 2017.
what we can also do is maybe have a look
at how this scene might look like
when they're flying upside down
they tilt and we can see the little
Peaks here
let's take a screenshot of this video
and for visual help we can actually flip
this this is a view that they should
have we can see this hook up here might
be similar to that one we can see that
there's a mountain range over here
coming up
we can see this one over here we have
this range right here
with sort of knobs
we can see that those Shadows have left
something similar behind like that so we
can be pretty sure that they've flown
over this direction
so now that we know where the location
is let's fly this same place on Google
Earth
to fly something on Google Earth we can
simply go enter flight simulator from
the tools section above in Google Earth
we can choose between an F16 or an SR-22
so I'm going to use the F-16 also
referred to as the Viper we can actually
take off from a specific airport if we
wanted to I'm going to take off at
current View
all right
okay so here we are 10 Peak Mountain F16
we're going to go straight for the
mountain
I think I'm just going to start off by
going upside down since it seems to be
the easiest way possible to get a decent
climb on this so I should be able to
climb quite over the ridge not that well
but yeah we did it and then back over
and down the valley if you want to have
a look at this location as well the
coordinates are in the description below
as well as a link to the Google Maps pin
in order to enter the flight simulator
you'll have to enter this into Google
Earth Pro which is downloadable version
but enjoy and I hope you are able to
also replicate the flying through the
Ridgeline
foreign
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