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Top Gun 2

nittany03

Recovering NFO. Herder of Programmers.
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Only flat spins kill, obviously. Lesson learned.
My headcanon is either "somehow he stuck with the post-departure gyration until the airspeed bled down to something less stupid" or "he lucked out, found himself still strapped to the seat after the breakup, and executed a manual bailout."

But in reality, cui gives a shit . . . it's a movie, and you can break any law of physics as long as it moves the story along and looks cool.
 

Gonzo08

*1. Gangbar Off
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Oh, and some of those shots on the VR-1355? Whoever got to film those . . . fuck you, you fucking lucky bastards. That's the aviation equivalent of lucking into a one-night stand with Scarlett Johansson.
I was around Whidbey when they did the filming.

They flew the '55 twice a day Monday thru Thursday and once on Friday to get the shots with at least one VAQ-129 jet leading the Rhinos/film jets.
 

SynixMan

HKG Based Artificial Excrement Pilot
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She owns the bar. Maybe thats her dream job following getting burned out from a highly lucrative, yet exhausting career in I-banking.

Didn't mean to imply she couldn't have been successful before settling down into bar owner, but considering the prices on Coronado these days (yikes!), the dad-miral buying it in the 80s and giving it to his kid seems more plausible
 

Mos

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Didn't mean to imply she couldn't have been successful before settling down into bar owner, but considering the prices on Coronado these days (yikes!), the dad-miral buying it in the 80s and giving it to his kid seems more plausible
Perhaps more plausible is that she has both alimony from her previous marriage and is also successful on top of that.
 
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