The good news - I only saw that movie a couple of years ago for the first time. It's not as cheesy as it could have been. Had a very interesting premise and the dilemma of choice when you have absolute power.
The bad news - I only saw that movie a couple of years ago because 1980 was four years before I was born. Though I was two years old when Top Gun came out.
I dream i have always had!
When they hit the ground they did.
F104 Starfighter!!
As a kid in 1980 I saw this movie, Final Countdown ... cheesy SF movie about the carrier Nimitz travelling through a time vortex to arrive exactly just before Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour... since then had soft spot for the F-14 Tomcat -- long time before Top Gun.
Small world, I am an air force brat too. That would be an F-102. Your dad was in ADC? My dad flew the Hun and the F-111.OK. just one more.
I was an Air Force brat and occasionally I'd go with my dad out to the flight line.
I got to see this bad boy up close and personal. Thought it was the most amazing thing.
No points for ID'ing it, but you know you'll look it up.