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Old 07-04-2020, 06:31 AM
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We watched Final Countdown, the Kirk Douglas movie where he is the Captain of the Nimitz that goes back to Dec 6th 1941. I forgot how many flying scenes it had of the F14 and was made prior to the retirement of the Corsairs, before the F18's took their place. They nearly lost an F14 in the filming too, you can see it stall during the scene with the Zeros before they were shot down. You know it's an old movie when the credits have Confederate Air Force instead of Commemorative Air Force. I wonder if they used a Saito in the model Zero that they crashed into the water and the one they blew up in the sky.