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etc. The Navy had to sign off on exactly how and where we planned to mount each piece of our equipment for it to safely stay in place while the planes were in the air. During scouting, we learned that in the Navy, all tasks are broken down and pieced out to very specific departments. Each department is referred to by its own specific abbreviated nickname. It took a lot of hunting to figure out which departments were responsible for exactly which functions. Each of these departments usually consists of a combination of naval personnel and civilian contractors. The mystery for me was which department(s) could provide me with the information that I would need to be able to figure out how to record our actors' inflight dialog in a manner that would render it one hundred percent usable for the production? It took me many hours of scouting time to track down which departments were responsible for which aspects of the pilots' communications: plane to plane, plane to ground, archiving of all the planes' communications. The planes have an internal communication system (Comms), which is fed to mics mounted inside of the pilot and co-pilot's oxygen masks, and monitored by headsets built into their helmets. Who was in charge of the mics in the masks and the headsets in their helmets? How and where did the pilots connect the masks and helmets to the planes? I learned that within the air station's hangars, there are many doors. Each of these doors lead to the offices of one of the Navy's various aircraft-related departments. Figuring out who did what and which unmarked door they were behind was both very time-consuming and very confusing. Eventually, I was able to find the right combination of departments to help me. The mechanics were able to show me all the possible access points where I could tap into the plane's Comms. Unfortunately, none of those access points would work for what I needed to do. I considered the possibility that I could record all of our planes' transmissions from the ground (as the Navy does record all of their communications for Glen Powell plays "Hangman" in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance, and Jerry Bruckheimer Films Jon Hamm plays Adm. Beau "Cyclone" Simpson Monica Barbaro plays "Phoenix"