Fans of the 1985 blockbuster "Top Gun" were likely as apprehensive ... the super secretive SR-72 stealth plane, and yes, the U.S. Navy allowed the "Top Gun: Maverick" production to shoot scenes ...

Even though Tom Cruise flew real fighter jets in his upcoming sequel Top Gun: Maverick, there was one ... scenes where the actors would be in the planes with real pilots flying.

With Goose's son now taking the lead in the new Top Gun films, many want to do what happened to Goose in the first film.

It's just Tom Cruise's Peter 'Maverick' Mitchell (obviously) and Val Kilmer's Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky. And it's in the handling of Iceman's return that Top Gun ... when they were my age." ...