INTERVIEW. The Vlaamse Maverick: Steven ‘Vrieske’ De Vries (49) is the most likely to be a battle pilot from the land: “Tom Cruise doesn’t do it badly in ‘Top Gun’, but he’s lucky Hollywood, hey”

36 years ago on the first ‘Top Gun’ film, Tom Cruise created opnieuw in the house of Maverick. Now he’s sold on the most popular pilots from all tijden full number of numbers, dry near to Vlaamse tegenhanger: Gevechtspiloot Steven ‘Vrieske’ De Vries, a man with 5,000 pilots in the F-16. “’Top Gun’: that’s Hollywood, hey. A pilotenbar vol bloedmooie vrouwen ben ik here never came.”

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