Rear Admiral Pete “Viper” Pettigrew who was hired to be the Military technical advisor (also a real MiG Killer in VN) and Javier Medina served as a Aircraft handler on the flightdeck of the USS Enterprise CVN-65 behind Tony Scott during all the shots there.

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