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Speed and AngelsBy lex, on February 3rd, 2009
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“Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States.” However the Video DVD is excellent value – great stories & fillum.
I watched it a couple weeks back.
Excellent.
A very good show indeed.
Been waiting for it since I saw it featured in AOPA.
I have newfound respect for what you’ve accomplished Lex.
Watching it is going to take that broadband thing, isn’t it?
I’ve heard of that stuff. Supposed to be pretty good.
In my case might be faster just to order it from Amazon.
– Max
Wow… amazing coincidence. A reader dropped me the link to the movie this evening and I just finished watching it. Great movie… even it was about Tomcat drivers (vice Hornet pilots, ya know).
Anyhoo… I just dropped in to get the links to “Rhythms” so as to return the favor to my friend, who I don’t think reads you, Lex. Yet. She will, though.
Well, I only made it about 45 seconds into the movie, and ordered it up on Blu-Ray.
Thanks for the link. Now do I wait, or watch it now….
Everyone have a fantastic night
Dan
That was a hour and a half I hadn’t planned on tonight. Nice show. Thanks for the link.
The boys and girls in my club have a name for people like you. TMB, as in too much banana.
TMB is a good thing….
Always puts a smile on my face to get the backstory on good people doing good. I could spend hours watching this type of documentary…and after blowing an hour this morning, I probably ought to get back to work.
But let me just put in the plug for what the movie goers are missing. Going 230knots in the darkened tube of an EP-3 at 20,000′ off the coast of country X alone and unafraid is just as cool as seeing trees and mountains blow by in a tomcat. Goose was putting in his transition papers for VQ just before he was killed.
We love that movie at our house! We ordered it awhile back as soon as it was available.
Fun to watch- thanks for the link. Only wish I had a nifty little vid-cam 25 years ago. Taking a Canon AE-1 up in the cockpit and trying to shoot whilst flying with knees and elbows just didn’t work well. Wound up using a simple point-n-shoot. Always wondered how Lights and Smurf got all those neat shots.
I watched that the other night, too. Orginally saw it in a pre-screening full of aviation types–so much fun. The place roared with laughter and cheers in reaction to the guy’s descriptor for “whoever got the idea of landing on an aircraft carrier at night.”
After seeing it, I finally completely understood Lex’s descriptions of dogfighting (I’m not a visual person, so I couldn’t quite construct the images in my mind)–amazing job of showing it on the screen… The aerial scenes are just awesome.
Thanks, Lex. I was not aware of this one.
I immediately marched over to AMAZON through my ANYMARINE link.
Thank you!
There’s a 10-minute clip on YouTube, if anyone is interested.
And, yes, it looks like a great movie. I’m just too impatient to deal with Hulu’s “occasional commercial interruption.”
http://www.terwilligerproductions.com/flyingfullcircle/
“Flying Full Circle is a 10-minute short film about living out a childhood dream – flying with the Blue Angels”.
https://blog.videosift.com/video/Speed-and-Angels-Grading-the-landing-onto-a-carrier
“Every pilot that lands aboard a carrier is graded. If they don’t achieve the minimum grade set by the Tomcat squadron then they will fail.”
Colour me green … a deep, dark green.
Totally loved the Flying Full Circle video. Thanks, SpazSinbad.
My brother keeps trying to teach me how to fly on MFS and various other programs. So far it no worky so well. Fortunately (?) he is too stubborn to give up, though. But if I could take the flight this guy did, I could die so happy.
My friends shake their heads, you can see in their eyes how they just don’t understand my relatively new-found interest in aviation. Neither do I, really, other than that I was bitten by the bug right here, through Lex’s writing. But what a way to go.
No hat-tip, that’s harsh!
Just messing w/ you Lex!
How many wristwatches died during the filming of this documentary?
The horror!
Kev: At least the watches were BIG!
& Michelle: MsFsim is fun because you can walk away every time.
Michelle: FSX + Accelerator will give you a Hornet Sim. This video explains Fsim Hornet Carrier Landings (about 100Mb) – well worthwhile: FSX Blue Angels:
“We have just made a tutorial on the proper techniques of Carrier Landings. – On our website: http://fsxblueangels.com/videoscreen%20ok3.html
Thanks Spaz. Another good video.
It really pulled a lot of different things together for me. But I would still be happy with a backseat ride.
thebonze…H/Ts are a sometimes thing around here…suggest you deal with it. Best
Michelle:
For what it is worth it is easier IMO to fly a real plane by far that MFS. In the PC based simulators the sight picture is so limited and you don’t get the feedback via sensations you get in a real plane. They make good IFR procedure trainers but not very good actual flight trainers.
If you have he bug go to a local airport and get an introductory flight/lesson. Be prepared to get addicted and then your financial future will always be imperiled by your need to satisfy your craving for a fix.
Porn might be titillating to some but a poor substitute for the real thing methinks.
Wonderful movie, wonderful kids. Picture all their emotions and then add loss rates of 4 to 8 pilots per VA and VF squadron per ship. Welcome to Vietnam.
No one would disagree with OT6F re real flying (if you get addicted). A better quality video for full screen viewing of the Fsim Carrier Landing tutorial is at: (333Mb .WMV)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7UQJCCZA
Snake Eater, get over yourself. Besides, I wasn’t really talking to you, was I?