Tom Cruise will fly with the Red Arrows after meeting them at visit to their base

TOP Gun star Tom Cruise has been invited to fly with the Red Arrows.

The Hollywood actor, 60, was made the offer after meeting the RAF’s aerobatic hot shots at an air show.

They were at the Royal International Air Tattoo in Gloucestershire on Saturday and invited him to fly with them later this year.

A source said: “Tom was just as blown away by the Red Arrows as they were by him.

“He took his time speaking to them and was really knowledgeable about them as a squadron.

“Tom has been invited back to join the Red Arrows and fly with them.

“He has leapt at the chance and has asked his team to try and arrange a date.”

The Red Arrows pilots tweeted a picture of their meeting with Tom.

They told their 218,000 followers: “We’ve got a new wingman.

“Today, Maverick joined the Red Arrows!

“Epic to meet Tom Cruise at the Royal International Air Tattoo and to speak about aviation, teamwork and Top Gun.”

Tom got his pilot’s licence in 1994, eight years after the release of the original Top Gun film.

The second film, Top Gun Maverick, was released in May and has already made more than £830million at the box office worldwide.

For the sequel, Tom and some of his co-stars learned to fly a fighter jet and spent three months in a specialist boot camp.

They were not allowed to fly the F/A-18s seen in the film, however, with each jet costing £70million. But Tom did fly a P-51 Mustang.

Miles Teller, who plays Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw in the new film, said: “We trained for this for a long time.

“Tom had us in a flight programme for several months before we ever started filming,

“But it was never something you really ever got, like, super comfortable with, at least for me.

“It was something that every time I went up, it really tested me and I felt like I wanted to puke pretty much every time.”