Favorite Airplane Movie?

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Re: Favorite Airplane Movie?

Postby Wing Nut » Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:34 am

With the exception of seeing some F-14's in action, I never really did like Top Gun that much.
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Re: Favorite Airplane Movie?

Postby Craig. » Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:40 am

if you really want a list of problems with topgun i could give you one, but in the end most movies involving aviation are inacurate. the thing with topgun is simply if your a russian official would you like to see a bunch of accurate mock up migs being blown to pieces?
although half those movies on your list i have never seen in my life so i cant comment.
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Re: Favorite Airplane Movie?

Postby HawkerTempest5 » Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:13 pm

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Re: Favorite Airplane Movie?

Postby BFMF » Tue Jun 17, 2003 1:27 am

I'm reading the book 'We Were Soldiers Once... And Young' by (ret) LT. GEN Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. Very interesting. In fact, I happened to read on page 24 about a Captain Louis R. Lefebvre who was a native of Bonners Ferry, Idaho. That's the town I live in ;) I read further later on that he was wounded and had to be evac'ed out of the La Drang Valley on November 14, 1965 which was the first day of the battle portrayed in the movie We Were Soldiers. I looked in the phone book and found a couple local listings for Lefebvre but no Louis Lefebvre. My grandmother told me that he died a while ago. :'( She also told me that a husband of one of my mom's co-workers went to school with him.
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Re: Favorite Airplane Movie?

Postby ATI_7500 » Tue Jun 17, 2003 7:33 am

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Re: Favorite Airplane Movie?

Postby Ivan » Tue Jun 17, 2003 8:46 am

[quote]With the exception of seeing some F-14's in action, I never really did like Top Gun that much.
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Re: Favorite Airplane Movie?

Postby Tequila Sunrise » Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:27 am

I dot remember seing any F-5s in the Iron Eag;e seriesand I'm convinced they were shot in Israel. This would explain the Kfir (Mig23s in Iron eagle 1) and F-4s (Mig29s in Iron Eagls 2) that and the second one was shot on an IDF base ::)
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Re: Favorite Airplane Movie?

Postby Wing Nut » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:57 pm

I stand corrected.  I remembered it was something ridiculous though.  I loved the 'Mig 4 Phantoms'  I understand it may be a little hard to get ahold of some Russian Migs for a movie, but I've been able to identify an F-5 since I was 12 years old, and an F-4 Phantom maybe even longer.  Admittedly, I may be a little more of an airplane nut than the average Joe, but I think most people would recognize an American plane when they see it.
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