It was stated by Feige that these things are just there as a bit of fun and do not connect at all.
The details prevent it from being Rhodes in Civil War, while the details make it that it could be the Hammer test pilot (no one said when the injury occurred to it could still have been him)…it could just have easily been some unknown test pilot in another “let’s copy Iron Man on our own” experiment.
cc @Brainspore
