Most of you know about the Final Countdown. Some classic NAVAIR here complete with the good ol high viz paint schemes 
All kinds of NAVAIR goodness here. RF-8 photo ‘sader on a Nimitz boat?! Who knew!?
I may need some alone time
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Awesome stuff. One of my favorite movies, and hey it’s the Jolly Rogers!
Man do I miss the Turkey! Thanks Mav!
Needs a little more A-6, A-7 and RF-8.
And if SJS shows up, a little more E-2.
Agreed. Fighter pilots make movies, attack pilots make history.
I love it how the Tomcats are doing S-Turns above the Zeros to “keep up” with them.
Gotta see if this is in Blu_Ray!
Looked at the names of the Nasal Radiators in the credits, some of them ended up flying the Purple jets, all great sticks and gentlemen. Watch one of the F-14′s lose it behind a zero, nose goes up and rolls over quickly to the right. The story is the recovery was a split ess that almost kissed the water….
Heard that very story about the immortalization of the departure Frab Up a few years after it happened.
This came out when I was a junior in high school. Little did I know that a few years later I would come to know some of the faces in those Ready Room scenes. Little did I know that a few years later it would be me riding in the back of an SH-3 and being an usher at one of the aircrewman’s wedding who was flying out with Martin Sheen.