Originally Posted by Dave Wilson
Why the vitriol? We need high profile people like the Pitts and the Vordermans and the Travoltas to keep GA and warbirds in the public awareness. I've no idea what sort of pilot Brad Pitt is but if he has the nouce that he's shown in his business career I dare say he will approach flying a Spitfire with the same careful analysis as he's shown in his public life. I know it may come as a surprise but these people aren't idiots. Best of luck to him.
Such as actor Michael Dorn (the Klingon Worf in Star Trek Next Generation)... who flew his T-33 solo very well, before trading it in on a Canadair Sabre, which was replaced a few years later by a Rockwell Sabreliner. He has since sold the Sabreliner (he hated the FAA requirement for a co-pilot) and is looking for a supersonic warbird.
He has kept up his fast-jet skills courtesy of the USAF & USN, picking up loggable flight-hours in F-16s & F/A-18s (and some left-seat time in a B-1 Lancer).
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