Darkstar one artefacts movie#

Also, the real jet being developed is engineered to max out at Mach 6, not Mach 10.

Skunk Works' actual SR-72 would be configured as an unpiloted aircraft, but there could be a demonstration plane with room for a single pilot. Another is the blind cockpit setup of the fictional Darkstar having no forward visibility.

Darkstar one artefacts movie#

There are certain differences between the SR-72 concept art and the Darkstar, one being the movie model having two inward-tilting tail fins instead of one. Taiclet revealed in a LinkedIn post that engineers at the legendary Skunk Works had 'partnered with 'Top Gun's' producers to bring cutting-edge, future forward technology to the big screen.'Īrtists' conceptual renderings released over the past few years do appear to look suspiciously like 'Maverick's' Darkstar and speculations and rumors have swarmed around it since the $170 million film went into pre-production way back in 2017. Lockheed Martin's logo even appears on the pilot's stick.Īs reported by The Drive, James Taiclet, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation confirmed that his firm's famous Skunk Works advanced projects division aided 'Maverick's' producers to conjure up the fictional spy plane. To help director Joseph Kosinski and Paramount Pictures, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works partnered up with the 'Top Gun: Maverick' production team to engineer what might be an adaptation of their hypersonic SR-72 plane with a few modifications to make it look even cooler on the big screen as both a full-sized physical mock-up and an airborne CGI version. A look at the fictional piloted version of the SR-72 Darkstar hypersonic plane in 'Top Gun: Maverick.' (Image credit: Paramount Pictures)