Watch Tom Cruise go hypersonic in “Maverick” as director Joseph Kosinski narrates a key scene in the Oscar-nominated film. “Want Mach 10? Let’s give ’em Mach 10.” That line, delivered by Maverick (Tom Cruise) in the popular sequel to “Top Gun,” may help prepare audiences for the fact that things have become a little bit updated in the sky since the 1986 original. This early sequence has Maverick arriving to discover that the hypersonic flight test he was supposed to perform has been canceled by an admiral Ed Harris, who would prefer to spend the funding on drones. But “canceled” is not in Maverick’s vocabulary, and he proceeds with the test as planned, aiming to reach Mach 10 speeds. Discussing the scene, the director Joseph Kosinski said that he and his crew designed the sleek aircraft in conjunction with Skunk Works, the famed division of Lockheed Martin. Kosinski said the scene was meant to “take a turn and take ‘Top Gun’ into the future. Here we see Maverick on the very cutting edg...