Watch Tom Cruise Land In A Helicopter At ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Premiere

etcanada.com:

Tom Cruise made an epic landing onto the red carpet at the “Top Gun: Maverick” world premiere in San Diego Wednesday. The movie star arrived at the USS Midway Museum via a helicopter.

Cruise stepped out of the chopper, which read “Tom Cruise. ‘Top Gun: Maverick’,” on it and approached the droves of waiting photographers, reporters and fans, all itching to see the actor make his return as Lt.

Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, 36 years later. While Cruise wasn’t wearing Maverick’s signature flight suit, he did dress for the occasion, sporting a dark gray suit and tie and of course, a pair of aviator sunglasses.

Despite some early reports that Cruise himself was piloting the chopper, the actor spoke with ET’s Nischelle Turner and confirmed that he wasn’t behind the controls in this particular instance. “No, not today.