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IMAX Red Flag experience
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| 03/02/12
| Kevin Hsu
Posted on 02/23/2013 5:45:56 PM PST by Doogle
....a nice short version of Red Flag operations. Super clear IMAX video photography...somewhat "fluffy", but worth the time to view
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: imax
enjoy
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:46:05 PM PST
by
Doogle
To: Chode
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:48:13 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
thankx...
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:50:45 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:52:12 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
Fluffy...I enjoyed the way they put it together, but I found some parts to be a bit "PC-ish".
Nothing beats the view of that F15 taking off and going straight up. Watching the wings flex and buffet really adds to that scene, as does the sight of the receding vegetation on the ground being pushed around by the exhaust...
I love aviation. Just love it.
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posted on
02/23/2013 6:19:13 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
To: rlmorel
‘I love aviation.’
Great!
As an ordinary citizen, I love flying, if only the little amount I’ve done.
Told our (adult) kids if I’m in a crash, don’t feel bad for me, as I love to fly. . . .
An aside: Many in my family worked for Grumman on Long Island - as did I for a very short while - builder of all those ‘cat’ planes from WWII on, before it was Northrup Grumman, so I am steeped in a bit of aviation.
But I don’t believe that has a bearing on loving to fly,
does it - - ??!
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posted on
02/23/2013 6:45:56 PM PST
by
USARightSide
(S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
To: rlmorel
yeah it's slightly contrived as i doubt scene about him getting chewed out about the near miss in debrief was real, but it's not a documentary
some of the footage of the fires was prolly gas as high order detonation is over in a flash but over all it was very impressive when i saw at the IMAX in Rochester
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posted on
02/23/2013 6:53:07 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: USARightSide
Well, it is said that flying is in the blood, so you definitely might have a genetic component...:)
I have loved aviation since I read “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” when I was seven. I got my first sight of real military planes when I landed at Tachikawa AFB when my dad got orders to Yokosuka, Japan. After our plane landed, we taxied past a long row of F4 Phantoms, painted in black and dark green camouflage.
Then, when I lived at Subic Bay, I used to go to the airfield up at Cubi Point and walk all around the planes...the Crusaders...Corsairs, Phantoms and Intruders. Hahaha, now you wouldn’t get within a half mile of them.
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posted on
02/23/2013 7:16:04 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
To: Chode
Actually, I believe they are pretty serious about those types of things, ceilings, rules of engagement, etc.
But hey, it is fun to watch. I forget where I read it, it might have been in “Bogeys and Bandits: The Making of a Fighter Pilot”, where the author describes fighters mocking and making fun of the “cartoonish” “Top Gun” movie, yet...they all love it.
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posted on
02/23/2013 7:23:14 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
To: rlmorel
o yeah, i totally agree about the seriousness of that type of thing, i simply think it was in the script rather than being a real life event
like i said, it wasn't a documentary but an IMAX Red Flag movie so liberties were taken
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posted on
02/23/2013 7:33:23 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: rlmorel
" Vought F4U Corsair crashes on the deck of a carrier when the arresting gear failed. Most likely sometime during WW2 in the Pacific Theater."
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posted on
02/23/2013 8:07:09 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: Chode
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posted on
02/23/2013 8:17:00 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
To: gorush
Heh, one of THESE Corsairs...
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posted on
02/23/2013 8:21:02 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
To: rlmorel
love the SLUFs...
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posted on
02/23/2013 8:24:20 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
My wife and I were visiting Arizona, and I came across this plane at the Pima museum that I had actually worked on back in the Seventies...:) That was a real trip...
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posted on
02/23/2013 8:29:15 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
To: rlmorel
i bet it was...
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posted on
02/24/2013 6:52:33 AM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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