Although fictional, the SR-72 has a real-world pedigree, with design help for the aircraft and models coming from the same group that is designing the real SR-72: the world-famous Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs.Īccording to Lockheed Martin, the production team behind Top Gun: Maverick contacted the company’s Skunk Works division to assist with the SR-72 concept. Thirty-six years after the first film debuted, Mitchell is a test pilot flying the SR-72 “Darkstar” airplane. In Top Gun: Maverick, Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell takes his need for speed to a new realm: the hypersonic realm, that is.
The company’s famous Skunk Works division developed the SR-72, as well as the real SR-71.
The SR-72 doesn’t really exist, but engineers at Lockheed Martin had a hand in its development.One of the stars of the new film Top Gun: Maverick is the SR-72 Darkstar hypersonic aircraft.
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