WOW this was my favourite so far and I have been having a good crack at playing the entries.
First the sound track is AMAZING it had me get straight in the zone of being a cool fighter pilot straight out of top gun.
Next I will comment your colour choices everything was on point for some reason I found my self admiring your static sea it was beautiful. I loved the gold on the black fighter and noticed the rest of the sprites had equally quality choices and contrast.
It had an excellent retro feel and even the death music took me back to the 80s, on that not it was unforgiving but thats ok this quality game has me coming back.