Has anyone seen this IMAX movie?

Has anyone seen this IMAX movie?

http://www.fighterpilotfilm.com/
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

http://www.imax.com/minnesota/films/fighterpilot.htm
It's playing at the Minnesota Zoo's IMAX Theatre


Montblack

Montblack:

I've seen it, at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian's Air and
Space Museum near Dulles International Airport near DC. It's a
fictionalized account of air combat exercises from the perspective of
one of the pilots. Dialogue was a little hokey, maybe, like most Imax
films, but the aerial photography was really good. I think it was
worth seeing.

Wiz


Montblack wrote:
Has anyone seen this IMAX movie?

http://www.fighterpilotfilm.com/
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

http://www.imax.com/minnesota/films/fighterpilot.htm
It's playing at the Minnesota Zoo's IMAX Theatre


Montblack

It's showing here in Appleton, Wisconsin too. I saw it last Saturday. The
aerial footage was pretty cool, with the exception of occasional use of
computer generated aircraft in some of the scenes. But then again, my wife
didn't pick up on those even though they stuck out like a sore thumb to me.
Maybe five years of working on F-4Cs and F-4Es and watching fighters in
action day after day made me more sensitive to how they really look in
flight. The aerial shot of the Nellis Ramp with the movie's logo "painted"
on it cracked me up too. It wasn't until the camera got close to the logo
that it became apparent that the logo was computer generated too. I also
got a laugh at all the scenes of crew chiefs "marshalling their aircraft"
while other folks walked past them. If there really had been a fighter
taxiing out of its spot, those folks wouldn't have been walking by the crew
chief like that.
There were some scenes I wish had been expanded on. I was excited to see
the scene of Israeli F-16 crewmembers, including a female, getting into
their Vipers, but that was the last we saw of them. The two B-1s entering
the range in formation at high altitude was cool, but seeing one flying
across the range at the speed of heat using terrain following would've
been so much cooler. Did anyone else notice the two cargo parachutes
colliding and one chute collapsing during the C-17 airdrop?
I was lucky enough to be able to ride along on two C-141B Red Flag sorties
back in 1989. I still have a T-shirt I bought at Nellis with a picture of
a C-141B and the phrase "Hugging the ground, praying not to be found". We
flew nap of the earth in those big monster jets, and it was amazing how
much yanking and banking they did. Terrain masking was their only defense.
On one flight, our Flight Engineer got airsick and left the flightdeck to
toss his cookies. I had a barf bag out and ready, but managed to keep
from using it. I vividly recall flying up a ravine with rock strewn
cliffs not too far off both wingtips and several hundred feet above us.
We crossed over one ridge line with a road along the top, and a lady got
out of her light blue station wagon and watched us fly over her. We were
low enough that I could've picked her out of a lineup. One thing alluded
to but not talked about openly in the movie is how many people get killed
every year during Red Flags. On one of my C-141B sorties, we had an
officer from Nellis riding along. As we reached our push time and started
descending down onto the range, he pointed out a hill below us covered
with sparkles. He told us that the sparkles were sun glinting off the
wreckage of a B-52 that had clipped the hilltop a few weeks before. There
were no survivors. I also had a friend who had worked on F-4G Wild
Weasels at George AFB, who got "volunteered" to help clean up the wreckage
of a Weasel that had had a controlled flight into terrain accident during
a Red Flag sortie. He told me he found an aircrew boot with the foot
still inside it. When I worked on F-4s we used to get safety magazines
that described accidents and I recall there were always a number of them
at Red Flags.
I also was able to visit Nellis and walk the ramp photographing all of the
participanting aircraft of several Red Flags in 1982 and 1983 while I was
stationed at George AFB, California. This movie brought back some good
memories and despite its faults I give it a passing score. It is worth
seeing for sure, in my opinion.
Scott Wison

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Maybe five years of working on F-4Cs and F-4Es and watching fighters in
action day after day made me more sensitive to how they really look in
flight.

I also was able to visit Nellis and walk the ramp photographing all of the
participanting aircraft of several Red Flags in 1982 and 1983 while I was
stationed at George AFB, California. This movie brought back some good
memories and despite its faults I give it a passing score. It is worth
seeing for sure, in my opinion.


Great post. Thanks.

Minnesota Zoo's IMAX is an hour's drive for me - I think I'll head down
there for the movie, anyway.


Montblack
I missed the Walking on the Moon IMAX film earlier this winter.
http://www.imax.com/magnificentdesolation/

Monty wrote:
I missed the Walking on the Moon IMAX film earlier this winter.
http://www.imax.com/magnificentdesolation/

Saw that eon on a field trip to SS, in DC with my daughter's thrid
grade class. I chaparoned, again.

The Monk

Flyingmonk wrote:
Monty wrote:

I missed the Walking on the Moon IMAX film earlier this winter.
http://www.imax.com/magnificentdesolation/


Saw that eon on a field trip to SS, in DC with my daughter's thrid
grade class. I chaparoned, again.

The Monk

Yeah, the Dad's always show up when the field trip is to Air and Space!
The new IMAX "Roving Mars" is also very good. As a teacher I think
"Fighter Pilot" is great because it's about team work rather than being
bigger and better than the rest.

Margy

Montblack wrote:
Has anyone seen this IMAX movie?

http://www.fighterpilotfilm.com/
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

http://www.imax.com/minnesota/films/fighterpilot.htm
It's playing at the Minnesota Zoo's IMAX Theatre


Montblack

I haven't, but if it's the same one currently showing at the
Smithsonian, my brother saw it last month. He wasn't impressed, but
then again, he doesn't fly.

In article ,
Montblack wrote:
Has anyone seen this IMAX movie?

http://www.fighterpilotfilm.com/
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

Yes. I loved it. Go see it. It's basicly a collection of fun
high-performance airplane footage, but oh, what footage it is!

"Montblack" wrote in message
...
Has anyone seen this IMAX movie?

http://www.fighterpilotfilm.com/
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

http://www.imax.com/minnesota/films/fighterpilot.htm
It's playing at the Minnesota Zoo's IMAX Theatre


Montblack

It's the USAFs answer to "Top Gun" ...

Story = Schlock
Footage = Awesome

YMMV...

Jay B

In article M_9Gf.25143$jR.19052@fed1read01,
"Jay Beckman" wrote:

"Montblack" wrote in message
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Has anyone seen this IMAX movie?

http://www.fighterpilotfilm.com/
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

http://www.imax.com/minnesota/films/fighterpilot.htm
It's playing at the Minnesota Zoo's IMAX Theatre


Montblack

It's the USAFs answer to "Top Gun" ...


Actually, the Navy's Top Gun is the answer to Red Flag, which predates
the Top Gun program by several years.

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