Figuring out how to land a plane on an aircraft carrier.

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon in London during Europe's Final Countdown World Tour in February 1987.

Training film providing instruction for landings on aircraft carriers.

The real story of what it takes to serve on an aircraft carrier shows the tests, like a catapult that can send a pilot into the sea to certain death.

Watch supersonic fighter jets take off and land! Follow Navy pilots on a mission! Discover how a carrier works. Visit the control tower, bridge, kitchens, hangar deck and more! Experience what it’s like to live on board a floating city of almost 6000 people!

A 30,000-tonne aircraft carrier is designed to function in the heat of battle and built to be capable of withstanding a great deal of punishment. This documentary follows the efforts of a team of engineers and demolition experts to sink one. Commissioned in 1950, the USS Oriskany was one of the flagships of the Pacific fleet, deployed in action during both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Even such a leviathan of the seas has only a finite life-span, however, and the carrier was decommissioned in 1976. The ship lay berthed for almost 30 years, before a decision was taken to sink the hulk for use as an artificial reef off the coast of Florida. The operation involved the most explosives ever used in a controlled marine demolition.

Take a comprehensive, insider's look at the aircraft carriers of today's United States Navy. Marvel as a mind-boggling array of workers, materials and technologies combine to create an aircraft carrier right before your eyes. Exclusive footage captures the building of the USS Reagan - from the moment the ship is conceived to its delivery to a jubilant Navy crew. Witness the world's largest crane gently nudging massive modular units into place, technicians snaking miles of cables through the bowels of ships, weapons experts installing the latest firepower and much more. Then experience the challenge and excitement of living on one these floating behemoths as you sail aboard the Reagan's sister ship, the USS Truman.