The plot of ''Top Gun'' is no weaker than the plot of ''Wings,'' the World War I tale that received an Academy Award in 1927, but the old-style air acrobatics showed the human beings as more vulnerable and more at one with their rather fragile-looking machines. Up there on their own, they came closer to catching the ''lonely impulse of delight'' that drove Yeats's Irish airman ''to this tumult in the clouds.''
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