Warbird Information Exchange

after a bad day of fishing on my day off i was surfing the tv & came across the movie iron eagle 3. now keep in mind my taste is not in my mouth......... i know all of these iron eagle flicks are sucko. 1 particularly funny scene...... the brit in the spit opens his cockpit & stands up luring in the intercepting pilot in an iskra i believe. the schmuck iskra pilot takes the bait, the brit spit pilot whips out an m-79 grenade launcher, & blasts the iskra out of the sky....... but........ the recoil from the grenade launcher causes the brit to flip his spit upside down, leaving his ass hanging in the breeze. enter louis gossett jr in his p-38...... he inches up to the upside down spit, & flips the plane over with his wing tip, thus saving the spit pilot, like trying to do the ball with string in the cup game / toy. also funny........ the spit, zeke, p-38 & the german plane's cockpits are roomier than a condominium!!!! gossett sure must have needed the money to make those turkeys!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

hahaha now i've seen it all!!!! gossett's p-38 has a vulcan cannon & a rocket booster!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

It's a super booster you dummy!

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

duhhhh darrrr doi i'm a douche bag for misidentifying that!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

I love the big strip of aluminum foil that one of the guys throws out of the open cockpit as "chaff".

I seem to remember that the Spit pilot shot with a *blunderbuss* with a big flared barrel instead of a grenade launcher...anybody got a screen capture?

I saw Iron Eagle III in the theater when it came out, and I literally laughed through the whole movie out loud. I don't think anyone else in the theater got it, though.

i'd believe a blunderbuss!!! because it's even dumber!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

I got to watch one of these with the guys from Chino years ago, including Steve Hinton. What a laugh. Steve had to taxi a T-33 in a circle around some hangars for hours during filming. Good money for the planes and pilots though!

I don't remember having the pleasure of watching Iron Eagle 3 (thank god!), but do remember when the first one came out.

And here I thought all F-16 jocks brought their teenage kids up with them to teach them how to fly while listening to their Sony walkmen...tell me it aint true???

John

If you think the Iron Turkey movies were bad, I once had the misfortune of seeing a made-for-TV movie (which I can't remember the name of) made of extra Iron Eagle flying footage and out-takes stitched together with an incomprehensible plot with no-name/no-talent actors.

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Wow, has it really been that long since I last visited?

You mean that wasn't real.....that a P-38 can't flip a Spitfire like that??!!!
darn.....now what is there left to believe in??!!!

Sounds just like the original to me!

How bout IE IV, I think. Israeli F-4s are supposed to be Russian Migs !

I'm not sure I should admit this, but I was somewhat responsible for Iron Turkey III being partly filmed at Evergreen's Marana, AZ facility. The Tucson Film Office was trying to help the producers decide between filming at Avra Valley Airport or Pinal Air Park (Evergreen). I kept my Stearman and SOKO 522 at Avra Valley but worked for Evergreen so most of my days were spent at Pinal Air Park. I thought it would be fun to watch an aviation movie with lots of warbirds being filmed outside my office window. I was handed a copy of the script well before the movie started filming, and to be honest, it started out as a pretty cool movie idea. Just before filming started, they re-wrote the script and in many ways, ruined the movie.

The boys from Chino turned the ramp into a daily warbird airshow for two months and did some great flying. I can only begin to imagine the fantastic air to air and ground to air motion picture footage that hit the cutting room floor. Some of the best scenes in the script were cut from the final film and replaced by really awful dialog and a bad story line. If they would ever do an "aviation oriented directors cut" of this movie, I am sure we would all have it in our DVD collection. I think that pilots feel the same about aviation movies as most men feel about pornos. "stop all the talking and just show us the naked women" or "stop all the talking and just show us the planes".

Let's play "Where's Waldo". My old SOKO 522 is in this movie, can you find it?

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Albert Stix Jr.
"Work is the curse of the drinking class"

Pretty sure that was IE II where the F-4s were MiGs.

IE IV was the one with the junior-high aged kids at a flight school taking on a drug cartel with armed Harvards.

Did 'ya ever wonder how many kids saw the first flick and then grew up thinking that rock'n'roll made jets fly faster?


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