Some impressive flying, assuming this is actual real footage, and not CGI.
It's Tom Cruise, He probably learned to fly, and bought an F/A-18 just so he could do his own stunts.
I suspect the power of nostalgia will suck me in, even though it's probably gonna suck. I thought I didn't care, but the first few bars of that music went straight to my little 80's kid brain.
ETA: I know they tend to fall out of the sky, but man, that Tomcat at the end is pretty.