Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:19 pm
Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:46 pm
mustangdriver wrote:I won't go into Pearl harbor, but Top Gun was a fun movie. Accurate, not really, but it was fun. It's a great flick. If you want to see a documentary check out the History channel.
Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:30 pm
Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:41 pm
maxum96 wrote:Well I know it's not an airplane, but the dive bar where Goose and Maverick sung "great balls of fire" just burned down last week.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080626-1637-bn26fire2.html
Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:02 pm
Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:56 am
Jesse C. wrote:
It would have been cool if one of those birds would have ended up here in San Diego, but hey, why be greedy, we still have Miramar!![]()
Color Me Gone!
Jesse
Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:21 pm
Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:30 pm
Ken wrote:Give me the Tomcats in "The Final Countdown" any day. Sci Fi story, but well done with minimal special effects - and a great way to document that slice of carrier ops and paint schemes in naval aviation history - I feel the same way about "The Bridges at Toko-Ri". I wish someone would film another aviation movie with real planes and few computerized add-ins.
We need to have "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" starring the C-130 crews of Iraq & Afghanistan!
Ken
Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:18 pm
Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:28 pm
Jack Frost wrote:How many pilots fly jet air combat or any other jet fighter flying with the O2 mask dangling off to one side? Kid fun, yes but not very realistic.
Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:57 pm
Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:10 pm
Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:14 pm
Maybe some of them got to go up, but I know for a fact Tom Cruise did not. He wanted to, and the Navy would have likely been fine with it, but the producers said heck no, because if something had gone wrong, their movie would have crashed (pun intended). I got that personally from Tom Cruise himself a few years ago!mustangdriver wrote:The actors actually flew in the F-14's for some time.
I never knew that. I found more data on that here: http://www.check-six.com/lib/Famous_Missing/Scholl.htmMoonlight wrote:Another quick fact associated with the flat spin scene where Goose is killed: Art Scholl, the famed aerobatic performer, was flying his Pitts w/ a camera mounted on it when he entered an inverted flat spin in order to get that footage for the movie, and wasn't able to recover from it. He crashed into the Pacific, and his body was never recovered.
Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:44 pm
Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:07 pm
Cubs wrote: Oh, one final thing... why does Hollywood think that foul language makes for a better movie? I won't watch Top Gun just because of what the Air Boss had a penchant for saying.