who?mikejones said:

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Cstrickland05 said:

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TCTTS said:

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My money's on Powell...

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Never heard of any of these guys. Are they in movies or tv?

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Powell is in a Netflix movie called set it up. It's rated in the 90s om rotten tomatoes.

He is an 07 graduate of Westwood hs in austin.

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Powell was one of the main guys in Everybody Wants Some

Wow. Love this. Powell still makes the cut, just in a different roll...

Well that's great news.

Its Icemans son!!!

dromo07 said:

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Its Icemans son!!!

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IHIOGA there was a casting call to chomp your teeth and smile and Powell killed it.

I'm not sure many people would agree with Teller being someone who's empathetic that you root for

Yeah, agreed. Only time I've ever felt truly sorry for one of his characters was the very end of Only the Brave, but even then I was still kind of annoyed by him.

Teller has a very punchable face...

dromo07 said:

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Teller has a very punchable face...

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TCTTS said:

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Ed Harris looks very, very old. Almost like Gary Oldman in Dracula

aTmAg said:

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jeffk said:

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We have cars that park themselves and only kill a small number of people while self-driving now, aTm. Surely AI-controlled attack aircraft are right around the corner.

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I'm talking about the aspect where a woman is a good pilot.

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NM

Well, this sucks...

Honestly, that doesn't sound far off.

jackie childs said:

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i just assumed tom cruise needed a few extra months of training so he could actually land his own jet on a carrier

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He'll figure it out

I hope we get Gene Kranz Ed Harris!!!

jackie childs said:

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i just assumed tom cruise needed a few extra months of training so he could actually land his own jet on a carrier

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After buzzing the tower.

TCTTS said:

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Honestly, that doesn't sound far off.

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I know you can't read this, but there is no way they would let that happen.

aTmAg said:

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TCTTS said:

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Honestly, that doesn't sound far off.

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I know you can't read this, but there is no way they would let that happen.

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Can't read this?

aTmAg said:

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TCTTS said:

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Honestly, that doesn't sound far off.

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I know you can't read this, but there is no way they would let that happen.

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I'm sure that post was sarcasm as Cruise is known to do all his own stunts.

I blocked him. But now that I can see what he wrote... really? Examples like this are why so many people dislike aTm. My post was clearly tongue in cheek. I don't actually believe that they'd let Cruise land fighter jets on aircraft carriers.

Exactly.

Bruce Almighty said:

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aTmAg said:

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TCTTS said:

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Honestly, that doesn't sound far off.

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I know you can't read this, but there is no way they would let that happen.

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I'm sure that post was sarcasm as Cruise is known to do all his own stunts.

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But TCTTS sometimes has insider info, so ya never know......

TCTTS said:

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I blocked him. But now that I can see what he wrote... really? Examples like this are why so many people dislike aTm. My post was clearly tongue in cheek. I don't actually believe that they'd let Cruise land fighter jets on aircraft carriers.

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Honestly, it wasn't that obvious to me. Tom Cruise is famous for doing his own stunts. Such as getting a gazillion hours in a helicopter for one of the mission impossible movies. Here is some background info on why I thought the notion of Tom Cruise getting to fly an F-35 needed correcting:

He was at my work a month or so ago supposedly getting fitted for a F-35 helmet (which cost $400K each):


(BTW, that's his own P-51)

And here is a picture of the pricey helmet:


Those helmets are custom fit for each pilot and are necessary because the F-35 has this thing where it projects stuff onto the glass in your helmet while you fly. Imagine a virtual reality thing you wear as you fly and you can look down and not see your legs, plane, or anything but see the ground underneath you. That's what the F-35 does. For it to work right, the helmet has to fit just right, snug, and not move at all.

People at my work were wondering why the hell were they going through that level of expense for a movie when there is absolutely no way that a causal observer would be able to tell "that symbol on his visor is off by half an inch!" That the only (not gratuitous) reason they would actually go through that expense would be if he were to fly the thing himself. He did get to fly in jets for the first Top Gun, after all.

I'm just saying, that for anybody who may think he will be flying in an F-35 for this movie like he flew in F-14's in the last one (and because he has a gazillion of flight hours in various aircraft), I'm saying that there is no way.

That's crazy to think about. When I was a kid I wanted to be a fighter pilot, but as I got older I realized I'm too dumb for that occupation.

FancyKetchup14 said:

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That's crazy to think about. When I was a kid I wanted to be a fighter pilot, but as I got older I realized I'm too dumb for that occupation.

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For a while, I flew simulators nearly ever day, and what is interesting is the things that people think is hard is not so hard, and the things people don't think about being hard, is a beotch. Flying the airplane where you want it to go is pretty easy. I could grease landings, fly in formation, and whatnot fine. What is hard is keeping track of all the information that is necessary. Lot's of people with a bunch of hours in civilian planes go to pilot training and wash out.

The stick and throttle each have about a dozen switches on it. And a lot of them move in all 3 dimensions (so like a joystick that you can also push in too). The screens have something like 40 pages that you have to understand. It's sorta like that bop-it toy but on steroids. You also have to know a lot about the technology, such as how radar works, and stuff like that. When I flew virtual missions with actual test pilots, I would have to listen and talk their jargon on the radios. Often I would merely say, "wait, what?" and they would have to walk me through wtf they were asking me to do for them. What I hear is, "lwhjrqlwtkjasflshfs" and what professional pilots hear are English sentences that mean, "jam that guy for me, while I go bomb it" or something like that.

I'm sure it's like anything else, that takes a lot of practice. But it's not for everybody. It's a professional job that takes professional level experience to master.

1986: That's a pretty big gamble to take in a $30M dollar aircraft lieutenant

2020: That's a pretty big gamble to take putting a middle aged actor in a $178M dollar aircraft, Mr Bruckheimer