Who wouldn’t enjoy a 60 yo pilot actor in a 50 yo aircraft?
But if they were going for realism, he’d be sitting in a trailer in the desert, flying drones half a world away. We still MAKE fighter jets, but only because military contractors are paid through eternity. We rarely use them any more.
For SUPER realism, an 18 yo kid would be flying the drones, having been raised on video games, while a long-retired Maverick sits at the local VA waiting for an appointment for the third consecutive day, rotting from all his STDs.
