Since Top Gun in 1986, then Mission: Impossible, Barry Seal and recently Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise has continued to combine his two passions in life, aviation and cinema, developing high-flying and high-risk aerial sequences for many months. Filming that is as impressive in the cinema as it is seen behind the scenes, often leaving the teams amazed by his aerial commitment to obtain the perfect sequence. We remember for example his six takeoffs from an aircraft carrier for Maverick, or the behind the scenes footage of his little trip with Jennifer Connelly in his own P51 Mustang dating from the war. And in the next Mission: Impossible: Judgment Day, in theaters on May 20, we will see him in particular in an aerial combat between two biplanes, even if other unrevealed sequences promise to turn our stomachs.
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Tom Cruise was necessarily the ideal winner to receive the highest award given by the Aéro-Club de France. An award given to many personalities from the world of aviation since 1900 for their significant contribution to the history of aviation and for having inspired the pilots of tomorrow.
The president of the Aéro-Club de France, Catherine Maunoury, thus presented this Saturday, February 8, 2025 during a big event evening the Grande Médaille (also called "gold medal") to Tom Cruise. Before him, in addition to players in world aviation, billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett was the recipient in 2003, Leonardo Di Caprio and Martin Scorsese in 2004 for the film Aviator in homage to Howard Hughes, but also actor John Travolta in 2007, also crazy about aviation, Thomas Pesquet in 2017 and Buzz Aldrin in 2018.