Here is a cool short about Pre-WWII Pensacola flight training. Very cool seeing a lot of the same buildings that still stand today. Eyes of the Navy 1940
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Best Naval Aviation movies
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I first saw Toko-Ri after I was already in the Navy... and what a great film!
I read Flight of the Intruder when I was a kid and thought it was great (I thought the movie was a good adaptation as far as these kinds of things go). Of course I saw Top Gun as a kid and I and loved all the flying scenes. But as far as movies and entertainment pitching naval aviation, my favorite is and always always has been a one-liner from a movie that wasn't even about naval aviation.
(dramatization and poetic license aside, listen closely between 0:50-0:55)
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I read Flight of the Intruder when I was a kid and thought it was great (I thought the movie was a good adaptation as far as these kinds of things go). Of course I saw Top Gun as a kid and I and loved all the flying scenes. But as far as movies and entertainment pitching naval aviation, my favorite is and always always has been a one-liner from a movie that wasn't even about naval aviation.
(dramatization and poetic license aside, listen closely between 0:50-0:55)
(Search engine says this is a recurring movie quote around here
)
Pixar getting into the Naval Aviation movie business?
I'd be lying if I said it doesn't look cool.
Never thought I would hear a White Zombie song in a Disney movie.
Same here. Old Walt must be rolling over in his grave (unless the rumors are true that he's cryogenically frozen... ba-DUM! tssssssss).
..unless you have studied your Agrippa….which I have!
phrogpilot73
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Funny you should mention that. I was 13 when it came out... And when the scene came up with the Coast Guard helo pulling Maverick/Goose out of the drink, my mom was proudly telling everyone that is what I wanted to do. And it was. Little did I know, I was going to go Marine Corps vice Coast Guard...
At the time of principle photography, the Coast Guard didn't deploy swimmers. Those are Navy swimmers you see in the film.
phrogpilot73
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I was referencing just the helo. At the time, I wanted to be a USCG helo pilot.
Sorry, I was doing a poor job of closing the USCG to USMC circle. While the film inspired you by showing a USCG aircraft, at the time it was doing a USN only function (deploy wet swimmer (and by all rights should have an H-3 from HC-1)) which subliminally pushed you into Naval Aviation. I got nothing for how you ended up on the green side.
phrogpilot73
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Because we're still Naval Aviators, and the Navy Recruiter wouldn't shut up about nuke...I got nothing for how you ended up on the green side.
You don't wear ribbons on wash khakis and dungarees.
What Hal sez…PLUS, there was a brief time in the mid '70s when the normal uniform then known as "Tropical Khaki Long" (e.g., our nappy-snappy gabardine or double-knit khaki, short-sleeved uniforms) were declared to be "working uniforms"…no longer good for liberty and no ribbons authorized. Must have been a Zumwalt-era thing, as best I can recollect…don't ask me why.
That had gone away by the late '70's and we were back to business as usual. I don't recall the "timeframe" when TFC was filmed…may have been some combination of both at the time. I have NO idea what uniforms might have been portrayed in the movie...