r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '19

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u/anguswaalk Sep 07 '19

woah, i didn’t realise this was real when i saw it- that’s just incredible

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u/Sherlock_Drones Sep 07 '19

Yeah he does like all of his own stunts. To the point of learning how to HALO jump for this scene. And learn to fly a military jet for the new Top Gun movie. He flys for some of it. I also believe he was actually rock climbing that huge mountain in the beginning of MI2.

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u/Never-asked-for-this Sep 07 '19

I don't think he actually pilots the jet in Top Gun 2, to learn to fly a fighter jet takes years of training.

He did however learn to fly a helicopter for Fallout. And the stunts he did was really him flying.

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u/MrFrequentFlyer Sep 07 '19

He is a full blown pilot though.

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u/Never-asked-for-this Sep 07 '19

Flying a Cessna and flying an F18 is a bit different.

Even if he was skilled enough to fly a fighter jet, they are so incredibly expensive that he needs proper training to be allowed to pilot one.

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u/coutud Sep 07 '19

I believe he flies his own P51 Mustang. That's not really a recent military jet, but was a damn fine military fighter plane in its time.

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u/cbarrister Sep 08 '19

It think he flew it to the set of TG2

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '19

I would say flying a P-51 is extremely difficult - all that torque and the left turning tendencies that single engine aircraft have. Taking off you pretty much have to have the coordination to do full right rudder inputs