Top Gun: Maverick Face Test

Thirty years of service, a wall full of medals, and still a captain, because promotion means leaving the cockpit. He breaks Mach 10 in the morning and every regulation by lunch, and strangely he's always right in the end.

A pilot who flies carefully and steadily, the opposite of the father he lost and the mentor he resents. Then he sits down at a bar piano and takes over the room exactly like his father did.

A bar owner who has heard every pilot's tall tale twice. She rings the bell without mercy when they can't pay. And she's the only one who can land that uncontrollable man.

A dependable right hand who has followed a troublemaking test pilot to every classified accident. He says little and worries a lot, and when an impossible flight succeeds, he's standing there with coffee.

An air boss who does everything by the book and got stuck with the pilot the book was written to stop. His sigh-laced blank face can freeze a whole squadron, and he uses it daily.

The admiral who, whenever everyone wants the troublemaker gone, gives him one more chance. He sees the big picture, trusts results over regulations, and rarely raises his voice.

The squadron's only woman pilot and one of the few who put the mission ahead of pride. She's steady under fire and deadly in a dogfight, and completely immune to men's swagger.

The glasses-wearing backseater whose callsign is just his name. He looks like he got lost on the way to the accounting department, and when the fighting starts, he locks onto targets with machine precision.

A wingman who half-brags and half-means it in the briefing room and proves it in the air. Quick to challenge, quicker to back up a teammate in trouble.

A backseater with maxed-out passion who loves everything about the job: the jets, the callsigns, the patches. Normally the mood-maker, and when a mission gets rough, he comes through.

The squadron's insufferable ace who tells you he's the best before you ask. He flies solo and looks out for himself, and at the one moment that really counts he shows up out of nowhere like a comet to save the day.