"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
07/16/2018 at 17:55 • Filed to: wingspan, Planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
07/16/2018 at 17:55 • Filed to: wingspan, Planelopnik | 4
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!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
Produced by Howard Hughes and directed by Josef von Sternberg, Jet Pilot (1957) starred John Wayne and Janet Leigh and told the story of an Air Force fighter pilot tasked with escorting a defecting Soviet pilot (Leigh) back to the US. Typical Cold War fluff (the pair inevitably fell in love), but the aerial photography is stunning and still ranks as some of the best ever. Rather than watch all the tedious scenes with Wayne and Leigh, Hollywood editor Vashi Nedomansky has spliced together eight minutes of truly extraordinary aerial footage featuring Cold War favorites like the North American F-86 Sabre, Lockheed F-94 Starfire, Convair B-36B Peacemaker, Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star, North American B-45 Tornado, Northrop F-89 Scorpion, Boeing B-50, and even the Bell X-1. Some of the aerobatic flying in the film was done by Chuck Yeager himself. Most of the Sabres are from the 94th Fighter Sqn, the famous Hat in the Ring group that boasts Eddie Rickenbacker, America’s highest scoring ace of WWI, among its former members . This video, with background music featuring Mars: The Bringer of War from Gustav Holst’s The Planets (no, it’s not John Williams), is just a taste. The whole video can be viewed on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
f86sabre
> ttyymmnn
07/16/2018 at 22:06 |
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Some really great stuff in there. I posted about watching Final Countdown a few days ago. The air to air stuff in that also looked great.
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ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
07/16/2018 at 22:36 |
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True, but still nothing better than those polished silver swords.
gmctavish needs more space
> ttyymmnn
07/17/2018 at 11:50 |
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Wow that’s gorgeous
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ttyymmnn
> gmctavish needs more space
07/17/2018 at 11:56 |
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Also, check out Strategic Air Command starting Jimmy Stewart. Hokey story, but stunning aerial shots of the B-36.
AuthiCooper1300
> ttyymmnn
07/17/2018 at 13:43 |
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Mars: The Bringer of War
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Pure gold.
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ttyymmnn
> AuthiCooper1300
07/17/2018 at 14:15 |
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Thanks! But now you know where Williams got all of his ideas for Star Wars.
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AuthiCooper1300
> ttyymmnn
07/17/2018 at 16:59 |
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It seems quite a bit of the the music for T h e R i g h t S t u f f was inspired by (and/or adapted from) T h e P l a nets.
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ttyymmnn
> AuthiCooper1300
07/17/2018 at 17:04 |
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It’s a very influential work. Here’s your The Planets trivia question: There are nine planets, but Holst only wrote seven movements. Why?
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AuthiCooper1300
> ttyymmnn
07/17/2018 at 17:25 |
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Wikipedia gave me the answer, which was slightly more complicated than I thought...
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