Student LTJG Evan Morris posing in front of a T-45. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_23.jpeg
Student LTJG Evan Morris posing in front of a T-45. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_20.jpeg
Student LTJG Evan Morris posing in front of a T-45. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_17.jpeg
Student LTJG Evan Morris posing in front of a T-45. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_16.jpeg
Student 1st Lt Austin Claggett dives at the target for the first time. (Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_015.jpg
Student 1st LT Austin Claggett, US Marine Corps.(Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_001.jpg
Student 1st LT Austin Claggett gets ready in the Paraloft at El Centro Naval Air Base. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_02.jpg
Two students fly in close formation seconds before they start their first bombing dry run. (Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_014.jpg
Student 1st LT Austin Claggett prepares for his bombing dry run. (Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_002.jpg
Student Capt. Steph Harris after her first test. (Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_016.jpg
Student LTJG Dylan Horan poses by lockers on Meridian Naval Base. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_14.jpg
Two jets flying in the El Centro desert. (National Geographic/Lyndsi Gutierrez)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_01.jpg
Student 1st Lt Austin Claggett discovers someone thinks he looks like Goose from Top Gun. (Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_017.jpg
Four jets about to take off in formation at NAS Meridian. (Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_003.jpg
Student LTJG Marcus Figueroa on his motorcycle in Meridian, Mississippi. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_05.jpg
Student LTJG Dylan Horan poses next to a T-45. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_11.jpg
A rare cloudy day in El Centro, with a T-45 sitting under its covering. (National Geographic/Chris Parkin)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_10.jpg
Student LTJG Spenser Neel in a pre-flight briefing. (Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_012.jpg
Capt. Juston "Poker" Kuch, Commodore, Training Wing 1. (Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_006.jpg
CDR Brad "Pancake" Thompson at the 4th of July party. (Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_004.jpg
Student LTJG Dylan Horan poses next to a T-45. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_12.jpg
Student LTJG Dylan Horan poses next to a T-45. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_13.jpg
Naval Air Facility El Centro, California. (Credit: National Geographic)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_UHD_011.jpg
DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers, Director Lana Salah, sound recordist Phil Bax, ground personnel, and Naval escort Evan Parker getting cockpit shots of the T-45 Goshawk. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_61.jpg
Sound recordist Phil Bax, DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers, Director Lana Salah, and camera Charlie Laing, filming Student Captain Steph Harris playing tennis with fellow students LTJG Dylan Horan and LTJG Spenser Neel. (National Geographic/Lyndsi Gutierrez)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_62.jpg
Air crew, DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers, and Naval escort Evan Parker stand in front of a returning F-18. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_66.jpg
DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers films student LTJG Evan Morris and his instructor as they return from a flight. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_72.jpg
Assistant camera Dan Di Martino, sound recordist Nathan Kendall, Director Chris Parkin, DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers, instructor LCDR Kyle Westman, student Ashley Ross, and sound recordist Phil Bax filming the walk back from a jet. (National Geographic/Lyndsi Gutierrez)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_59.jpeg
Director Lana Salah, sound recordist Phil Bax, and DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers film student LTJG Evan Morris and his instructor as they return from a flight. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_73.jpg
DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers holds an inert dummy bomb used in training while ground crew David Lee holds his camera. (National Geographic/Dan Di Martino)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_67.jpg
DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers films student LTJG Evan Morris and his instructor as they return from a flight. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_71.jpg
Assistant camera Dan Di Martino and DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers recover in the shade of a hangar in El Centro. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_65.jpg
DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers films student LTJG Evan Morris and his instructor as they return from a flight. (National Geographic/Freddie Claire)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_70.jpg
DOP Jon Southgate-Sayers and Camera Assistant Charlie Perera filming a student and instructor doing their final checks before taxiing. (National Geographic/Chris Parkin)Episode: #101 "Strike"Air Date 09/16/2025101_Strike_TopGunsTheNextGeneration_69.jpg
