At the Navy's "Top Gun" school the best of the best are separated from the rest in one of the most intense training regimens on earth.  High above the western deserts the most promising pilots in the world battle to find out who has what it takes to be an ace. TOP GUNS is an inside look at the school made famous in the Tom Cruise blockbuster.  But the real story is far removed from Hollywood's glamorous version.  Take to the skies with aspiring aces for a first person view of the training exercises that forge a new generation of dogfighters.  Meet with instructors who reveal what separates an ace from a regular pilot and see how the regimen has been refined over the years.  Graduates recall their difficult days studying the tactics of the greatest pilots of all time and applying them in mach-speed real-life drills.  And intense footage captures the speed and skill danger and daring of the students who go to the edge of the envelope in the hopes of becoming TOP GUNS.