Top Gun: Maverick

This is how sound designers came up with just about every noise audiences here as Maverick pilots the Darkstar at Mach 10.

[jet turbines](https://jalopnik.com/airport-worker-sucked-into-jet-engine-was-warned-twice-1850026539) spooling up to the beeping noise the Mach indicator makes. [Top Gun: Maverick](https://jalopnik.com/jalopnik-nominates-top-gun-maverick-for-best-picture-1850209080) got people to come back to [movie theaters](https://jalopnik.com/this-day-in-history-the-first-drive-in-movie-theater-o-1847041084) last summer, so as a reward for making the [film industry](https://jalopnik.com/car-culture/movies) lots of money, the Academy decided to give it the [Oscar](https://jalopnik.com/vin-diesel-thinks-furious-7-will-win-best-picture-oscar-1693650540) for Best Sound. We even learn where sound designers got the jet stream noises that flowed around Darkstar when it was at Mach 10, and it’s not somewhere you’d expect. Speaking of thrilled, that’s how I felt the first time I saw Maverick in theaters. In case you missed it: [Good Cars With Undeserved Bad Reputations](https://jalopnik.com/aztek-pt-cruiser-oldsmobile-good-car-with-bad-reps-1850204345) [Off-Road Viper, Stolen RX-7 Race Car, Abandoned Corvette Z06: The Best Automotive Videos on YouTube This Week](https://jalopnik.com/best-automotive-car-enthusiast-videos-youtube-march-12-1850213424) [Airline Fined $225,000 After Police Had to Free Passengers From Flight in Florida](https://jalopnik.com/airline-fined-225-000-after-police-had-to-free-passeng-1850212742) Basically, Vox describes it as starting with a completely blank slate.