I’ve seen it twice. In IMAX and regular. IMAX is overpriced for not much more. Movie is great either way. Seen the first one about 100 times. Used to live in San Diego so I even went to check out the filming spots. Some things are funny. The sailing scene was not San Diego. Penny’s house is in San Pedro, The bar was built on the Coronado beach as a set, bummer, wish it was real. Penny is a single mom with a Rolex, vintage Porsche, beach house, $$$$ sail boat, owns a beach front bar? Maverick does use Snap-on tools. I liked that. What about the CA motorcycle helmet law?
CA motorcycle helmet law
The tactics were a plot construct.Well they never really say it, but the only country with F14s is Iran and I don't think they have 5th gen fighters yet, but I guess it's a movie and maybe it happens somehow in the future. Plus with a specific gps coordinate, can't you fire a lot of cruise missiles, regular missiles or whatever to hit the target? Some of them would get through the SAM guarding it. But yeah, check your brain at the door and enjoy those flying sequences.
This made me laugh and I can't help but want to know how many more years in the brig or how many more times Maverick would be put to death after this movie?
Well...these guys only address the legality of various movies. One guy is a former JAG lawyer and all he does is cover what could happen if you actually did a flyby or disobeyed an order or decided to follow a woman into the bathroom. It has nothing to do with whether or not it's a good movie.Every clown with a Youtube presence and a military connection wants to comment on the movie.
...yawn...
Wake me up when someone who has a couple hundred traps, a hundred combat missions flying off a boat, some time in the F-14, and a realistic perspective on the whole thing is talking...
Ward "Mooch" Carroll - A friend and fellow Tomcat guy gives a good review of the movie.
Every other video I've seen on it, every other one, is some clown like this guy trying to tear it down to make themselves look good and generate traffic.
The movie wasn't made to be totally realistic, it was made for general audiences, but the tactics, and the flying, were realistic enough. They were far better than the first movie. When you see dust kicked up on the desert floor (filmed near Fallon, from the looks of it) by a high-G pull up of an F/A-18 that was very low - that was a camera on a real F/A-18 flying very low.
Very low.
I talked about "splitting the throttles" to rapidly maneuver the airplane at low speed in my thread on the F-14. I smiled at that detail - they clearly talked to a Tomcat driver when they wrote this movie, even if not every detail was technically accurate.
Throughout the movie riding in CA Maverick isn’t wearing oneProvided by the Navy...
I guess it makes sense. Snap-On must be the very best.
On Federal land?
So what are your thoughts on a man being able to pull more g's than guys that are probably 36 years younger than him in the first movie? I suppose maybe you can outshoot someone no matter the age due to better skills. I think of it like marathon runners, yeah, there are some pretty fast guys in their 50/60s, but they're not winning the race, the guys in their 20/30s are, they're just winning in their age category.Every clown with a Youtube presence and a military connection wants to comment on the movie.
...yawn...
Wake me up when someone who has a couple hundred traps, a hundred combat missions flying off a boat, some time in the F-14, and a realistic perspective on the whole thing is talking...
Ward "Mooch" Carroll - A friend and fellow Tomcat guy gives a good review of the movie.
Every other video I've seen on it, every other one, is some clown like this guy trying to tear it down to make themselves look good and generate traffic.
Good movie for a big screen. Movies take you somewhere and that big screen does it. Kinda like Disney California’s Soarin’I don't go to movie theaters.
I'll catch it on a streaming service someday.
Oh yeah, I seem to remember that being mentioned about some new facilities, they've built them much deeper in the earth so that regular bombs wouldn't be able to get to them and they might even be safe from bunker busters.Taking out one target, on one strike, and leaving, as the Israelis did with Iraq's nuclear facilities at Osirak, is far more preferable to starting a full-scale war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera
I haven't pulled 9 G in 25 years, so, I don't know how realistic that is, however, guys in their 60s are still doing aerobatic competitions, which require high G - so I don't see that as unrealistic.So what are your thoughts on a man being able to pull more g's than guys that are probably 36 years younger than him in the first movie? I suppose maybe you can outshoot someone no matter the age due to better skills. I think of it like marathon runners, yeah, there are some pretty fast guys in their 50/60s, but they're not winning the race, the guys in their 20/30s are, they're just winning in their age category.
And yeah, isn't an F14 that's still flying and maintained by a different country going to be a little bit different than the last time you flew it a few decades ago?
Anyway, still fun to watch.
I haven't pulled 9 G in 25 years, so, I don't know how realistic that is, however, guys in their 60s are still doing aerobatic competitions, which require high G - so I don't see that as unrealistic.
Are you certain that an F-14 maintained by a different country is going to have any serious differences?
They (both the real country, and in the movie, the fictional country) haven't replaced the engines, or flight controls, or most of the weapon system. Sure, a few components might be updated, like radios, and missiles, but fundamentally, the jet, as it exists in the real world, and in the movie, is the same as when it rolled off the Grumman assembly line.
I could get in a Boeing 757, not much newer than the F-14, owned by any nation, and still fly it. I don't see what happened in the movie, starting up and flying an old airplane, as a stretch at all.
I sat in an F-14 cockpit a few years ago, in the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. I closed my eyes, reached out and put my hands on every single switch and control, just as I remembered them.
I don't think anyone who isn't a fighter pilot can understand how connected you are to the machine.
I didn't get 2,000 hours by flying long, boring, multi hour missions. Flights were short, intense, and I had to know the airplane inside and out. I started the engines thousands of times. I reached for every switch and control thousands of time. I could walk you through the start sequence (greatly abbreviated in the movie) because I still remember exactly how I did it back then.
I even remember every single memory item from the emergency procedures. I had to know them, by heart, years ago, my life depended on that. So, yeah, I remember every single word, every single step, of those procedures.
Sitting in that airplane recently, it was all still muscle memory for me.
I have no doubt, that given a chance, I could fly the airplane again.
On a moment's notice.
Talk about the "supermaneuverability" of the 5th gen fighter scene near the end! When the F-14 shot a missile at it @Astro14
Military personnel must use helmets whenever riding a motorcycle, even in jurisdictions that don't require them, even while off duty.
Any civilian riding on a military base for any reason must also use a helmet.
Motorcycle protective equipment mandatory for military personnel
Military personnel at any time, on or off a DoD installation, are required to wear Personal Protective Equipment when riding as the operator or as a passenger of a motorcycle.www.army.mil
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I guess it makes sense. Snap-On must be the very best.
On Federal land?
So what was Tom doing in that start sequence where he had to wait for the gauge to hit a certain number? I just figured that Iran did whatever it could to keep them flying and the original factory parts were no longer made so they might have made some of their own parts for various systems so it'd be a slightly different variant of the plane like an F14A vs F14D. But I guess for a short flight like that, it doesn't really matter.I haven't pulled 9 G in 25 years, so, I don't know how realistic that is, however, guys in their 60s are still doing aerobatic competitions, which require high G - so I don't see that as unrealistic.
Are you certain that an F-14 maintained by a different country is going to have any serious differences?
They (both the real country, and in the movie, the fictional country) haven't replaced the engines, or flight controls, or most of the weapon system. Sure, a few components might be updated, like radios, and missiles, but fundamentally, the jet, as it exists in the real world, and in the movie, is the same as when it rolled off the Grumman assembly line.
I could get in a Boeing 757, not much newer than the F-14, owned by any nation, and still fly it. I don't see what happened in the movie, starting up and flying an old airplane, as a stretch at all.
I sat in an F-14 cockpit a few years ago, in the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. I closed my eyes, reached out and put my hands on every single switch and control, just as I remembered them.
I don't think anyone who isn't a fighter pilot can understand how connected you are to the machine.
I didn't get 2,000 hours by flying long, boring, multi hour missions. Flights were short, intense, and I had to know the airplane inside and out. I started the engines thousands of times. I reached for every switch and control thousands of time. I could walk you through the start sequence (greatly abbreviated in the movie) because I still remember exactly how I did it back then.
I even remember every single memory item from the emergency procedures. I had to know them, by heart, years ago, my life depended on that. So, yeah, I remember every single word, every single step, of those procedures.
Sitting in that airplane recently, it was all still muscle memory for me.
I have no doubt, that given a chance, I could fly the airplane again.
On a moment's notice.
Not the same plane but... Wowzers
Not the same plane but... Wowzers