"You can’t make this shit up" and "...so it probably won’t kill him..." are two phrases you hear right before a really good story is about to happen. Shoes is the rare combination of someone who has lived a wild, fascinating life AND is blessed with the ability to tell the stories about it in an engaging way that makes it feel like you were there touching the refueling probe to a guy’s foot in midair with him.
I was an AT1 with VF-41 at this time. My former squadron was VF84. The Tomcat, in my opinion, is the most beautiful fighter jets ever. Best times of my life. Thumbs up to all of the pilots and enlisted friends of mine. I was also with the Nimitz on my last cruise in the Indian Ocean 80/81.
“So then my wife comes down, and ends up flying in the B-25 while I’m trailing behind them. Then this guy wants me to touch his foot with the refueling probe, but I don’t wanna, because the static electricity discharge is potentially lethal. They say do it anyway, he just wants to do it. So I....” Internet forum expert: “Sure you did. Tell us more please....lol!” “No guys, I swear. You can’t make this stuff up!"
@@LRRPFco52 Oh ok. I thought you misunderstood me. Sorry. I love it. The same with mister Shul Brian and his great stories. Life-affirming stuff. Those are to me great people in every sense of the word.
Sorry, the story of the IFR probe was a good one, but I can't buy it. If you look at the location of the probe on the F14, you can pretty clearly see that the nose of the F14 would have hit the back of the B 25 well before the probe contacted the film guys feet. Who was that that said something about 2 objects occupying the same space at the same time.
This was a phenomenal interview- one of the best on your site. Long before Top Gun and Iron Eagle, The Final Countdown showed off naval aviation and carrier ops in all their glory, and was a boon to military aviation recruiting in the 1980s. A whole generation of naval aviators, and even Marine aviators and Air Force pilots were inspired by this film. Those guys were the flight leads in Desert Storm, the squadron COs over Bosnia and Kosovo, and the Air Wing CAGs, Carrier XOs/COs, and admirals commanding Carrier Battle Groups in the Global War on Terrorism. Many thanks to Shoes and the others for blazing a trail in the sky.
VF-84 is my favorite Tomcat squadron, largely due in part to this movie. I even have a scale model of an F-14A in the same paint scheme as the movie. I'm really glad that VF-84's successor, VFA-103, has carried on the Jolly Rogers' legacy and even to this day still has the iconic skull and crossbones on their F/A-18F Super Hornets.
@@B-A-L That's the same size as my Tomcat model, although mine's a plastic kit I put together and painted. I even have it carrying the same weapons load as in the movie; 2 Sidewinders, 2 Phoenixes, 3 Sparrows, and the fuel tanks under the intakes. From what I understand, this was actually a pretty standard weapons load for Tomcats during that era.
The Final Countdown, Top Gun, and Iron Eagle are my favorite military movies from when I was a kid. I was actually born the same year TFC came out in theaters.
Great story. You guys are awesome !!! Love Final Countdown. I saw it when it first came out around 1980 during my Air Force days stationed at Kirkland AFB in Albuquerque. Have it on DVD. , watched many times. Keep the great stories coming , better yet let’s go get some beers and tell me in person. 👍🍺🍺🇺🇸
Stationed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk V4 division up on the flight deck.Never grew tired watching the Tomcats in action.Whether a full afterburner cat launch, low level passes,or grabbing a wire.By far my favorite fighter.
I remember hearing about that refueling probe stunt when I saw the directior's commentary on the DVD of the movie. I wish they would have put Zero kill marks on the Tomcats just as a bit of a squadron in-joke.
TOMCATS!!! Great interview! One of my favorite movies, because of the tomcat footage. Impressive, what was possible back then without tons of CGI. Awesome to hear the story of the pilots! Thanks!!! 🚀👍👍👍
Big salute to Mover & Shoes for their service & this GREAT story! "The Final Countdown" started me on my path in aviation & those flight scenes still give me chills! Great Stuff :)
Had such a fanboy moment watching this, amazing to see the face and hear the voice and stories of one of the lads that made the TOMCAT one of my favourite airplanes ever to grace the skies.
I just happened to watch that movie recently for the third time last year alone! That would be a good movie to remake with today’s technology and what a huge improvement it would be! Especially the old age make up at the end! The concept of a modern carrier going back in time to WWII is great plus the whole what if, time travel, changing history argument. Thanks Mover for getting the inside story with Shoes, that’s so awesome! Bring back THE CAT!! 😼
Great interview. There was an anniversary edition of the Final Countdown on DVD that included some good stories from behind the scenes as well. One thing Shoes alluded to that was story on 60 Minutes had to do with some hi tech video gear given to one of the squadrons. If I'm not mistaken the CO of VF-84 at that time did some of the early flying in the F-14 before it was a Fleet aircraft. Basically wrote the book on how to fly the -14 onto the boat.
Wow, thanks for sharing this!!! I was 10 when this movie came out and loved it more than Star Wars!!! It's so cool to see the face behind the visor!!! Thank you, Shoes and clear skies and good tailwinds to Fox...you guys are a couple of my heroes!!!
Man, I absolutely love this movie. The premise crazy, especially now, but I watched it all the time with my dad growing up so it will always be a special movie for me. Me and him always cheered at the Tomcat parts too. Thanks for this video to give a little extra insight to the movie
I loved the final countdown especially the Tomcat v Zero scenes. Ok it wasn’t as good as top gun but definitely a close second in my book. Well worth a watch if you get the chance.
'The Final Countdown' was pure awesomeness. "What if?" scenarios are fun discussions, and the subject of many a build for scale modelers. It would seem that he gaming industry has taken to it as well.
Having loved the Tomcat as long as I can remember (in no small part due to "The Final Countdown" which I might've actually seen before "Top Gun") I cannot even begin to imagine how they had to be beloved by men and women who actually flew them.
This is awesome. This was one of the first movies we ever rented on VHS and watched it over and over. I'd wish you could have expanded more on the flight issues at 7:10. As a kid, and even watching the movie again 20 years later, it did always seem like the F14 was accelerating straight into the ocean faster than the pilot intended.
“So after I flew our custom breed dog down in the cockpit, it was fine, we stayed at low altitude so the dog didn’t need a mask....” Tell us about the movie. “Oh yeah! Check this out. So there I was one day. Remember the part of the movie where you can see the close-up nose of the F-14? Yeah, so my wife comes down...."
I was in high school when this excellent film came out in 1980. Fast forward to 2012 when I spent four days aboard the Nimitz during RIMPAC as the A-10 liason for the live fire exercise. Honored to work with our Navy bros!
The B-25 and the B-17 were Hollywood favorites for camera planes. Both were very stable aircraft and had numerous points to film from. If you watch the movie dr. Strangelove, when the B-52 is supposed to be flying low over the broken ice on the ocean if you look at the shadow you will see it's either a B-25 or B-17. I'm pretty sure it was a B-25. They just shot the film at low speed and then ran it at normal speed make it seem like the plane was flying faster.
Hi shoes! My step brother Greg Plants coordinated the flight scene of the movie. He said he still has the script and a picture of the tomcat flying behind the B-25. He can send you a copy of it.
I still feel that The Final Countdown is a better movie technically than Top Gun, in terms of aircraft and carrier operations. Top Gun obviously did a better job of recruiting since it appealed more so to the younger demographic.
I agree. The Final Countdown is more for the fans of jets and aircraft carriers, you get to see way more detail. Also, Top Gun was more style over substance, while TFC had more of a story and suspense.
Now there are several refurbished Zeros that can be used to film this movie again, but Tomcats are no longer there any more, except if somebody could get two Persian Cats for this purpose. : )
The refurbished Zeros are probably permanently perched in museums, too valuable to ever fly. Plus there are plenty of AT--6s /SNJs that are available and virtually indistinguishable from Zero.
@@davem5333 Or I should say "flyable" Zeros. In fact there are four of them are flyable such as, 5357 - Pearl Harbor flight featuring the PoF Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero ( ruclips.net/video/m0qpynHQb_U/видео.html ) Replica A6M3 - Owned by the Southern California Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. (Should be the X-133 here) Japanese Zero Arrival and Walk Around ( ruclips.net/video/CqjzkUSpqsw/видео.html ) Replica - 250万回再生！戦後初！日本人パイロットによる零戦が舞う！日本が誇る名機の圧巻離陸！[ゼロ戦] ( ruclips.net/video/mWo-r3Q73ho/видео.html ) And, I am not quite sure which one is this one, perhaps 3852? RARE JAPANESE ZERO DOGFIGHT Demonstration ( ruclips.net/video/mbZctHFtlhM/видео.html ) I think they will be fine to do those acrobatic maneuvers in the original The Final Countdown.
My last boat det was on the Nimitz. Weather was weird one day and a friend mentioned this movie. You should have seen the look on his face when i said "you know that movie was filmed on this ship right?"
I loved the yaw string, as during that time I was doing my first Glider instruction and had a yaw string . Bet that had an airspeed limit on that string lol
@@EnhanceRaptor The problem is movie producers don't really care about such anachronisms and they'd rather use a cool looking shot than one that's accurate. Even with military advisers once it gets to the editing room these mistakes will always be made.
I remember watching this movie as a kid back around the mid eighties, I loved it then and still love it now, the only criticism I've ever had about this movie is what an anti climatic tease of an ending, watching all those aircraft take off gets the blood pumping and just when they are about to engage THAT BLOODY STORM RETURNS AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!
I would love to see this movie re-made and taking advantage of the digital format. Such a great flick and very cool to hear the side of the actual pilots for the production. For those interested, Richard "Fox" Farrell passed away in 2014.
Mover/Shoes.........former USN here.....I did my first tour with A-7 (AO) then F/A-18C....... My A school instructor went back to the fleet pretty soon after my graduation. I saw him ironically about a year later on the Enterprise word cruise. I was VA-94 and he was VF-114 (Aardvarks) Shoes.....quick question and even Google has let me down on this search. During the F-14 scenes of the carrier landings there is what looks like a very small whip antenna just forward of the windscreen behind the refueling probe? Looks like either a whip antenna or possibly sealant that was not totally removed during last windscreen change! Am I right on either of those theories?
The Nichols were family friends as a child, I understand Mr. Nichols was on the Nimitz at the time of the shooting. He was apart of the black aces. Sadly he died from covid this last year.
I've always thought the Tomcat was the most beautiful aircraft I have ever seen fly, never could understand, why the Navy didn't replace it with something similar, but with 21st, I know the excuse was it would be too expensive, but how expensive is it too lose a modern carrier, it's aircraft and crew, such a loss, would in my opinion require a full war response, having modern tech Tomcats, I believe, mitigate that possibility, just throwing,my 2cents in, I could be wrong.
I think they were right to retire it because its main problem is that it didn't age well and it was maintenance nightmare and you don't have enemy to fight, so it was mostly used as to bomb shit. It is weird how much money went into F 35 program which was supposed to actually save money but it ended up costing more then developing proper planes.
At 6:50 references Richard "Fox" Farrell. Fox's own discussion of the F14 dive to the ocean event can be seen in this vid: ruclips.net/video/vvSPg2rAiAs/видео.html
They could of gone well deeper in the story line of this movie, and got Japanese well before they hit pearl harbour, also made a mini series, going deeper in the story line ,excellent movie, 👌👍
If they had stopped the Japanese before Pearl Harbour and then disappeared then America wouldn't have joined in WW2, the cold war wouldn't have happened and therefore the Tomcat probably wouldn't have been built!
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"You can’t make this shit up" and "...so it probably won’t kill him..." are two phrases you hear right before a really good story is about to happen. Shoes is the rare combination of someone who has lived a wild, fascinating life AND is blessed with the ability to tell the stories about it in an engaging way that makes it feel like you were there touching the refueling probe to a guy’s foot in midair with him.
I was an AT1 with VF-41 at this time. My former squadron was VF84. The Tomcat, in my opinion, is the most beautiful fighter jets ever. Best times of my life. Thumbs up to all of the pilots and enlisted friends of mine. I was also with the Nimitz on my last cruise in the Indian Ocean 80/81.
I really love this guy. He is such a good storyteller and he has so many stories.
“So then my wife comes down, and ends up flying in the B-25 while I’m trailing behind them. Then this guy wants me to touch his foot with the refueling probe, but I don’t wanna, because the static electricity discharge is potentially lethal. They say do it anyway, he just wants to do it. So I....”
Internet forum expert: “Sure you did. Tell us more please....lol!”
“No guys, I swear. You can’t make this stuff up!"
@@LRRPFco52 Huh?
@@Junker_1 Just pointing out how crazy his stories are. If you were reading it on a forum, nobody would believe it. I could listen to him for hours.
@@LRRPFco52 Oh ok. I thought you misunderstood me. Sorry. I love it. The same with mister Shul Brian and his great stories. Life-affirming stuff. Those are to me great people in every sense of the word.
Sorry, the story of the IFR probe was a good one, but I can't buy it. If you look at the location of the probe on the F14, you can pretty clearly see that the nose of the F14 would have hit the back of the B 25 well before the probe contacted the film guys feet. Who was that that said something about 2 objects occupying the same space at the same time.
Damn man whoever told you to change up from your normal stuff. Im glad you listened. I really enjoy these. Im like a kid in the candy store.
Lot of us are the same way.
This was a phenomenal interview- one of the best on your site. Long before Top Gun and Iron Eagle, The Final Countdown showed off naval aviation and carrier ops in all their glory, and was a boon to military aviation recruiting in the 1980s. A whole generation of naval aviators, and even Marine aviators and Air Force pilots were inspired by this film. Those guys were the flight leads in Desert Storm, the squadron COs over Bosnia and Kosovo, and the Air Wing CAGs, Carrier XOs/COs, and admirals commanding Carrier Battle Groups in the Global War on Terrorism. Many thanks to Shoes and the others for blazing a trail in the sky.
Easily still the best footage of Tomcats put on film IMO.
Definitely! I love Topgun and Executive Decision, but the Tomcats in Final Countdown the best.
Agreed
I have to agree
I agree with you.
agree
Pure gold. This should be in the national archives.
Sending love from Edinburgh to the legend that is Shoes.
Nimitz pulled into Edinburgh 1975! Had a great time!
This movie looks outstanding in Bluray. Every shot of Tomcats is an orgasm for the eyes way cooler than Top Gun
These short clips with Shoes are like a gift that keeps on giving! Love it.
*SPLASH THE ZEROES*
"Eagle Control, Alert One; splash two. Repeat; splash two. Possibly one survivor in the water."
My first movie I saw tomcats, love at first sight. Still in love.
I've always loved this movie, expecially the Tomcat scenes.
VF-84 is my favorite Tomcat squadron, largely due in part to this movie. I even have a scale model of an F-14A in the same paint scheme as the movie. I'm really glad that VF-84's successor, VFA-103, has carried on the Jolly Rogers' legacy and even to this day still has the iconic skull and crossbones on their F/A-18F Super Hornets.
@@Orca19904 I have a diecast 1/48 scale model of the VF-84 Tomcat! It's as awesome as the real thing... almost!
@@B-A-L That's the same size as my Tomcat model, although mine's a plastic kit I put together and painted. I even have it carrying the same weapons load as in the movie; 2 Sidewinders, 2 Phoenixes, 3 Sparrows, and the fuel tanks under the intakes. From what I understand, this was actually a pretty standard weapons load for Tomcats during that era.
The final countdown was based on a book written by Martin Caidin. It was then adapted to a movie.
The Tomcat giant photo of Shoes room its AWESOME
I loved Final Countdown.
The Final Countdown, Top Gun, and Iron Eagle are my favorite military movies from when I was a kid. I was actually born the same year TFC came out in theaters.
@@Orca19904 You're just a baby!
@@britishamerican4321 I'll be 41 this coming March.
@@Orca19904 Like I said... Lol.
Be neat if they'd create some alternate endings.
One of my once a year movies. Watched as a kid and loved the idea of the movie and watching the F14s.
Great story. You guys are awesome !!! Love Final Countdown. I saw it when it first came out around 1980 during my Air Force days stationed at Kirkland AFB in Albuquerque. Have it on DVD. , watched many times. Keep the great stories coming , better yet let’s go get some beers and tell me in person. 👍🍺🍺🇺🇸
Stationed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk V4 division up on the flight deck.Never grew tired watching the Tomcats in action.Whether a full afterburner cat launch, low level passes,or grabbing a wire.By far my favorite fighter.
I remember hearing about that refueling probe stunt when I saw the directior's commentary on the DVD of the movie. I wish they would have put Zero kill marks on the Tomcats just as a bit of a squadron in-joke.
Great idea!
TOMCATS!!! Great interview! One of my favorite movies, because of the tomcat footage. Impressive, what was possible back then without tons of CGI. Awesome to hear the story of the pilots! Thanks!!! 🚀👍👍👍
Big salute to Mover & Shoes for their service & this GREAT story! "The Final Countdown" started me on my path in aviation & those flight scenes still give me chills! Great Stuff :)
Had such a fanboy moment watching this, amazing to see the face and hear the voice and stories of one of the lads that made the TOMCAT one of my favourite airplanes ever to grace the skies.
Final Countdown is one of my top ten movies, love it!
Nothing beats live action filming. Time travel and F-14s, hell yeah.
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I just happened to watch that movie recently for the third time last year alone! That would be a good movie to remake with today’s technology and what a huge improvement it would be! Especially the old age make up at the end! The concept of a modern carrier going back in time to WWII is great plus the whole what if, time travel, changing history argument.
Thanks Mover for getting the inside story with Shoes, that’s so awesome!
Bring back THE CAT!! 😼
I watched the full interview but enjoy rewatching via these snippets. Great interview, thank you!
Great interview. There was an anniversary edition of the Final Countdown
on DVD that included some good stories from behind the scenes as well.
One thing Shoes alluded to that was story on 60 Minutes had to do with
some hi tech video gear given to one of the squadrons.
If I'm not mistaken the CO of VF-84 at that time did some of the early flying in the F-14
before it was a Fleet aircraft. Basically wrote the book on how to fly the -14 onto the boat.
Wow, thanks for sharing this!!! I was 10 when this movie came out and loved it more than Star Wars!!! It's so cool to see the face behind the visor!!! Thank you, Shoes and clear skies and good tailwinds to Fox...you guys are a couple of my heroes!!!
Man, I absolutely love this movie. The premise crazy, especially now, but I watched it all the time with my dad growing up so it will always be a special movie for me. Me and him always cheered at the Tomcat parts too. Thanks for this video to give a little extra insight to the movie
Brilliant interview. And this is one movie where it's actually a pleasure to suspend disbelief and be a 10-year old again. Love it!
I loved the final countdown especially the Tomcat v Zero scenes. Ok it wasn’t as good as top gun but definitely a close second in my book. Well worth a watch if you get the chance.
Best film ever watched it at least 50 times . Aviation addict and rate it far beyond top hun . Thanks for the interview.
'The Final Countdown' was pure awesomeness. "What if?" scenarios are fun discussions, and the subject of many a build for scale modelers. It would seem that he gaming industry has taken to it as well.
Having loved the Tomcat as long as I can remember (in no small part due to "The Final Countdown" which I might've actually seen before "Top Gun") I cannot even begin to imagine how they had to be beloved by men and women who actually flew them.
I remember that scene where the Tomcat came close to hitting the water. Even as a kid I was like "I don't think they did that on purpose!"
Thanks for this video!
love that movie, great sci-fi
This is awesome. This was one of the first movies we ever rented on VHS and watched it over and over. I'd wish you could have expanded more on the flight issues at 7:10. As a kid, and even watching the movie again 20 years later, it did always seem like the F14 was accelerating straight into the ocean faster than the pilot intended.
Thanks for this... I saw it 40 years ago... cool movie! 👍🇳🇿
Wow... the story of the guy that wanted to touch the refueling probe is too good. One of those things you just would have to been there to believe!
You should have the same kind of interview with Llyod "Bozo" Able. He flew the Top Gun F14. Went on to Northwest and Delta. Used to live in Minnesota.
" I probably wont kill him" he says
One of my all time favorite movies!!!
30 years later and I think we can all agree, The Final Countdown is in fact a great movie. For aviation lovers, it's as quotable as any Arnie flick.
Great interview, loved that movie, enjoyed is so much I went straight back next day to watch it again.
So how low was that tomcat at 7:13?
Mover great vid! I live in the UK, just started getting into DCS bc of your videos. You are a great inspiration to all :)
...this guy is GOLD! TOMCAT!!!!
Love these behind the scenes stories
Loved the movie. Thanks for the excellent interview.
Final Countdown was an AWESOME movie !!!!
Such a wonderful interview
Great movie, great concept. Thanks Shoes.
VF84 had the coolest squadron markings (only VF-2 was close, imho) too bad those went away in the 80s for the gray/blue paint.
Ha! I've been in the Tallmantz B-25 when it was at Chino in the early 80's!
Love that movie: "Splash the Zeros!" I say again, "Splash the Zeros!"
This guy of funny big fan of this series 👍 any plans to get back to heli training soon?
I'm waiting for a Final Countdown remake. Great film.
Shoes needs a VR headset and a podcast! Best stories ever.
“So after I flew our custom breed dog down in the cockpit, it was fine, we stayed at low altitude so the dog didn’t need a mask....” Tell us about the movie. “Oh yeah! Check this out. So there I was one day. Remember the part of the movie where you can see the close-up nose of the F-14? Yeah, so my wife comes down...."
@@LRRPFco52 and then I go... How boring is what I do for a living? LOL
I was in high school when this excellent film came out in 1980. Fast forward to 2012 when I spent four days aboard the Nimitz during RIMPAC as the A-10 liason for the live fire exercise. Honored to work with our Navy bros!
Thats one of my favorite movies!!!!
This is one of my ATF movies.
The B-25 and the B-17 were Hollywood favorites for camera planes. Both were very stable aircraft and had numerous points to film from. If you watch the movie dr. Strangelove, when the B-52 is supposed to be flying low over the broken ice on the ocean if you look at the shadow you will see it's either a B-25 or B-17. I'm pretty sure it was a B-25. They just shot the film at low speed and then ran it at normal speed make it seem like the plane was flying faster.
Hi shoes! My step brother Greg Plants coordinated the flight scene of the movie. He said he still has the script and a picture of the tomcat flying behind the B-25. He can send you a copy of it.
Great interview! loved that movie for the flight scenes and I doubt it could be recreated that way again.
I still feel that The Final Countdown is a better movie technically than Top Gun, in terms of aircraft and carrier operations. Top Gun obviously did a better job of recruiting since it appealed more so to the younger demographic.
I agree. The Final Countdown is more for the fans of jets and aircraft carriers, you get to see way more detail. Also, Top Gun was more style over substance, while TFC had more of a story and suspense.
The "Cat Scream" was Fox's RIO.
Reading the book, "Top gun days" by Dave "BIO" Baranek, now.. I'm sure you've both read it
Now there are several refurbished Zeros that can be used to film this movie again, but Tomcats are no longer there any more, except if somebody could get two Persian Cats for this purpose. : )
The refurbished Zeros are probably permanently perched in museums, too valuable to ever fly.
Plus there are plenty of AT--6s /SNJs that are available and virtually indistinguishable from Zero.
@@davem5333 Or I should say "flyable" Zeros. In fact there are four of them are flyable such as,
5357 - Pearl Harbor flight featuring the PoF Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero ( ruclips.net/video/m0qpynHQb_U/видео.html )
Replica A6M3 - Owned by the Southern California Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. (Should be the X-133 here) Japanese Zero Arrival and Walk Around ( ruclips.net/video/CqjzkUSpqsw/видео.html )
Replica - 250万回再生！戦後初！日本人パイロットによる零戦が舞う！日本が誇る名機の圧巻離陸！[ゼロ戦] ( ruclips.net/video/mWo-r3Q73ho/видео.html )
And, I am not quite sure which one is this one, perhaps 3852? RARE JAPANESE ZERO DOGFIGHT Demonstration ( ruclips.net/video/mbZctHFtlhM/видео.html )
I think they will be fine to do those acrobatic maneuvers in the original The Final Countdown.
And by the way...a much better depiction of modern Naval Aviation than that other movie.
'That doesn't look good...' Fighter-pilot speak for "OH, SH*T!! HE'S DEAD!!!"
LOL!
Great stuff!
I love these stories.
Would be interessting to see the uncut material of the flight scenes
This is awesome.
My last boat det was on the Nimitz. Weather was weird one day and a friend mentioned this movie. You should have seen the look on his face when i said "you know that movie was filmed on this ship right?"
I loved the yaw string, as during that time I was doing my first Glider instruction and had a yaw string . Bet that had an airspeed limit on that string lol
Explains why the Tomcats wing sweep varied dramatically from one shot to the next.
You'd think they'd catch that in editing. The number and types of missiles change between shots too. Not as bad as Iron Eagle, but still noticeable.
@@EnhanceRaptor The problem is movie producers don't really care about such anachronisms and they'd rather use a cool looking shot than one that's accurate. Even with military advisers once it gets to the editing room these mistakes will always be made.
I remember watching this movie as a kid back around the mid eighties, I loved it then and still love it now, the only criticism I've ever had about this movie is what an anti climatic tease of an ending, watching all those aircraft take off gets the blood pumping and just when they are about to engage THAT BLOODY STORM RETURNS AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!
9:40 "Your wife never gets to see what you do in the airplanes..." PROBABLY for the best!
Great movie.. Especially when they flew over the boat from the past.
At the end he refers to court cases where people were suing each other over costs and reimbursments
I would love to see this movie re-made and taking advantage of the digital format. Such a great flick and very cool to hear the side of the actual pilots for the production.
For those interested, Richard "Fox" Farrell passed away in 2014.
I loved this movie.
I loved that movie. Still great 👍🏻
I’m way behind, have you done the Fast and Furious 6 runway scene yet on Mover Ruins Movies?
Mover/Shoes.........former USN here.....I did my first tour with A-7 (AO) then F/A-18C.......
My A school instructor went back to the fleet pretty soon after my graduation. I saw him ironically about a year later on the Enterprise word cruise. I was VA-94 and he was VF-114 (Aardvarks)
Shoes.....quick question and even Google has let me down on this search.
During the F-14 scenes of the carrier landings there is what looks like a very small whip antenna just forward of the windscreen behind the refueling probe? Looks like either a whip antenna or possibly sealant that was not totally removed during last windscreen change!
Am I right on either of those theories?
The Nichols were family friends as a child, I understand Mr. Nichols was on the Nimitz at the time of the shooting. He was apart of the black aces. Sadly he died from covid this last year.
I've always thought the Tomcat was the most beautiful aircraft I have ever seen fly, never could understand, why the Navy didn't replace it with something similar, but with 21st, I know the excuse was it would be too expensive, but how expensive is it too lose a modern carrier, it's aircraft and crew, such a loss, would in my opinion require a full war response, having modern tech Tomcats, I believe, mitigate that possibility, just throwing,my 2cents in, I could be wrong.
I think they were right to retire it because its main problem is that it didn't age well and it was maintenance nightmare and you don't have enemy to fight, so it was mostly used as to bomb shit. It is weird how much money went into F 35 program which was supposed to actually save money but it ended up costing more then developing proper planes.
It was a great sci fi movie with a pretty good story.
Good movie 🎥
Fear the Bones.......Americans should embrace this and find a way to unite again as leaders
More stories with this guy there’re just bangers after bangers.
At 6:50 references Richard "Fox" Farrell. Fox's own discussion of the F14 dive to the ocean event can be seen in this vid:
ruclips.net/video/vvSPg2rAiAs/видео.html
TOMCATS!
Love It !!!!!!!!!!!
Is there footage of the toe touch??
They could of gone well deeper in the story line of this movie, and got Japanese well before they hit pearl harbour, also made a mini series, going deeper in the story line ,excellent movie, 👌👍
If they had stopped the Japanese before Pearl Harbour and then disappeared then America wouldn't have joined in WW2, the cold war wouldn't have happened and therefore the Tomcat probably wouldn't have been built!
Mind boggling, good film tho,
Its fascinating to think about what might have happened.
TomCats!!!
That’s bad ass