Why does Maverick, a Navy man, own a P-51 instead of an F4U?
How does Maverick afford a million dollar plus vintage fighter that costs in excess of $1000/hour to operate on Navy pay?
Or a Hellcat
The last Navy guy who did something like that was selling our secrets to the Russians. Maverick has made some REALLY GOOD investments…
Tom Cruise owns a Mustang and not an F4U[:D]
Its a movie about Tom Cruise LOL.
So far, I am liking what it said about the movie and the previews I’ve seen, according to Jerry Bruckheimer and Cruise, the movie is made with real flying and minimal CG. They want the viewer to be in the cockpit of a real fighter. The movie is to be for airplane fanatics.
O-6 pay, single, no dependants, lives on base housing BOQ when not at sea… [;)]
But yeah, the latest preview looks gorgeous for the aerial shots. I’ll definitey see it in the movie theater.
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Why does Maverick, a Navy man, own a P-51 instead of an F4U?
Prolly can’t find a good radial mech in so cal. RR or Allison are just bigger Vs. Cal waterpumps for aquaduct used to be driven by Allisons back in the day. [;)]
PaulE
Forget Navy pay, how about just about any pay short of top earning Doctors and Lawyers! That is a really expensive toy and (it seems right now) some silly writing from the studios
Looking forward to this movie, but I hope the Mustang has an important role, and not just Tom Cruise showing off his airplane by putting it in the movie.
I still think it should be a Corsair or Hellcat, though!