Flying Maverick’s Missions with Frank “Walleye” Weisser—Top Gun Pilot

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tom Cruise might have gotten all the accolades for the new blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, but it was Frank “Walleye” Weisser that actually flew the missions. The former Navy and Blue Angel pilot flew the canyon run from the movie, as well as a score of other missions, in real life and in real time—no CGI here. He reflects on his time in the service, taking Tom Cruise on harrowing runs, and what it takes to fly fast and low. He’s an aggressive man who knows a little something about the need for speed.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:20.0	I have the need, the need for speed.
0:24.4	Where did that come from?
0:26.1	Top Gun. Yes, it's an institution.
0:29.5	And Maverick from Top Gun, really amazing.
0:32.8	I got to say, I saw that Top Gun dirt.
0:35.6	Well, when it came out, the summer or something like that?
0:37.4	Yeah, it was a summer film.
0:38.5	Yeah.
0:39.7	I went in with very, very low expectations like, okay, this would be fine.
0:44.4	No problem.
0:45.1	But it was, if I could figure out that my top five favorite movies of all time, that would be my top five.
0:51.4	Yeah, it's freaking great.
0:52.2	It really is.
0:53.4	It's freaking great.
0:53.4	Wow.
0:54.0	Wow. Wow. Today, you might be motivated to go spend some money to watch that if you haven't already.
1:01.3	Because today we're going to have a key, key guy who was involved in Top Gun Maverick. His name is Frank Weiser or Frank Weiser because he's German.
1:13.4	Frank Weiser. Even though his name is German, he is 100% top blue American. He's a fighter pilot.
1:23.9	And he was the guy who's actually flying the plane during Top Gun, the most recent
1:32.5	edition. It's made over $1 billion at the worldwide box office. It's only the 50th film
1:39.5	in U.S. history to do so, or in history to do, and it's in due in part to our guest today, Frank
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