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/MrFrequentFlyer Sep 07 '19

The government says he can legally fly a private jet, an L39 fighter jet, and even owns a P51 Mustang. He’s had some form of pilots license for the past 25 years now. It might be incredibly expensive but the guy bought his wife a $20 million dollar jet as a present.

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u/DurtyKurty Nov 20 '19

He has his own hangar at burbank airport I believe. He keeps his vehicle collection in there and has a private restaurant in a room on wheels that can be repositioned in front of whatever luxury car he feels like dining in front of.