I’ve heard Hornet pilots do cat launches hands-off. In all likelihood, Maverick isn’t holding the controls until after the launch forces subside (Tom Cruise certainly isn’t because he’s in the back seat and not controlling the plane at all).

I think the reasoning here is that they’re behaving as if the Thach Weave was never invented.

The mid-rear layout (no pun intended, but welcome) means no uncomfortable engine heat radiating off the top of the front hood.

‘Twas troubling how five generations of the Corvette were all catered to its first generation of customers.

They had to assure themselves this was no flight of fancy.

I was looking up the historical events of June 14, hoping to find an emperor’s death or the like for an excuse to party, when I was dismayed to learn it was the date the Continental Army was established, as well as the Stars and Stripes being officially recognized as yhe flag of the United States.

What say you to the chances that they’ll do a slow, smoky dark remake with a female Australian vocalist?

That F-14 looked too obvious as CGI. I will go so far to say that it was made just for the trailer and won’t be seen in the film.

Now all we need is a handle of ‘Pete Mitchell Gant’ here.

The lead cetacean scientist walks into the radio tracking room to find the technician there staring blankly ahead, chugging a bottle of whiskey.

It’s not like Boeing could force airlines to buy the plane and then pay to have those pilots trained up to the new standards. The airlines simply would not have bought the plane.

Kinda stings, knowing how far removed we are from the movie these days when ship they’re aboard is now the United States’ largest source of glow-in-the-dark razor blades.

The P-51 had a glass jaw. Couldn’t absorb the sort of damage its contemporaries in the USAAF and Navy could take.

May I suggest Area 15? Saves costs by using the same stencils they already have on hand.

The Space Shuttles’ engines typically ran at 105% power during launch. Though that was because they improved the engines while they were installing the computers— rather than reprogram everything to the “new” 100% they kept everything as-is and simply told the computers to calculate the thrust at 105% instead.

That’s not a haircut. It’s a cover for the psionic disapproval headgear.

Hennessy tastes like Honey Smacks soaked in vodka. Might be tasty, but it’s hum-drum.

I’ve heard (unreliably) that the term ‘bastard sword’ may actually come from a French term for ‘saddle sword’— the idea being such swords are too long to carry around comfortably at the hip, but are just fine when suspended from a saddle so that they can be drawn while mounted.

With some doing, you can convert a Semi-Active Radar missile into an Anti-Radiation missile.

“The most expensive army is the one that is second-best...” The logic being that a defeated force is literally not worth its cost.