Rest in peace, never forget him.

Great story. A similar thing happened to me after watching Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981. I went to college, earned a graduate degree and explored much of this ole' world while wearing fedora. :)

@@perrywidhalm114 I use to watch adult vids and then learned to pork myself, kind of the same thing.

I was there!!

@@perrywidhalm114 *tips hat*

That was the Navy's goal. Showcase to enlist

The scene with the T-6 (fake zero) and the F14A where really quite good it was kirk Douglas and his son Peter who fought to keep that scene in

I think the Zero's would have wrecked the f-14's in real life since there a lot faster.

@@Ono-Lin_Tam Not only that, but the Zero had no armor to speak of. It was nimble, but it was fragile.

at the Cleveland Airshow in the 90's they had a mock dogfight between an F14 and a P 51 Mustang.. the F 14 did EVERYTHING the P 51 could do... they broke and did an opposed circle ... the P 51 went by at full throttle at about 450 mph... then banked away.. from the opposing direction the F 14 came by with wings pulled back going almost 700.. full afterburner.... the sound was behind the plane by 200 feet or so ... very close to the sound barrier ... it took a couple days for my goosebumps to go back down ... whole demo reminded me of eagle chasing a crow ... F14 was huge by comparison... with wings forward, the F14 stuck to it easily ..

@@retrostuff8976 depends. the f-14 is faster but you can see in this video it is struggling to turn as well as the 'zero'.

Lexington73300 if they got back*

Never would have been allowed. For one, the other commentors are correct in that the entire incident would have been classified top top top secret. Secondly, in the time period that the NIMITZ returns back to, the US Navy (including the Nimitz) would be participating in CIN-PAC maneuvers in the Pacific, and this includes our ALLIES the Japanese and the South Koreans. It would raise TONS of questions, why an American jet would have the kill mark for a (current) ally in the Pacific ;) LOL.

LOL, if he would have done that, then probably some weeks later, a US plane goes missing over Japanese controlled airspace... And then a Japanese fighter pilot suddenly would have appeared during joint maneuvers with a white star painted on the side of his F-15.

​ I was plane captain on the DET to Key West for filming the flying scenes. We painted 2 kill flags on 203. If you know where to look you can make them out in one of the scenes in the movie. I believe I am the only one with a photo - Link - i.imgur.com/kKD3Flw.jpg

@@jimf4036 I enjoyed the heck outta that! Thanks for posting the pic; and thank you for your service.

doggonemess wow, step it up, cinema.

The movie probably modeled the Vulcan's damage the way War Thunder models MK 108s.

And bottom gun wasn't goofy?

It's actually a Zero. From What I know, the Zeke was mainly used by the IJA

​@@derptank3308 The "Japanese" aircraft in this move WEREN"T Zeros. They were modified AT-6s

At a guess, they saw the star and bars (and English writing on the planes) and put 2 and 2 together.

indeed, given how the F-14s blew straight past them, given they were flying what they'd think is the fastest plane in the world.

they do it all the time in warthunder. . . . . . .

Certainly in the upper echelon for 1941 - there were faster planes available but not by a whole lot at the time and pretty much all carrier fighters had a top speed in the range of 325-340 mph. It wasn't until 1943-44 that the Americans had a decisive speed advantage with the Hellcat.

Of course it would

+likemynewname During the filming of this movie, they nearly killed a pilot by doing just that.

Zeros for all their strengths were notouriously fragile, a single burst of .50 from a Wildcat or Hellcat would cause them to fly apart.

+Wedge Antilles All it would take is a supersonic flyby and the shock wave would practically vaporize the Zeros.

bionicsjw um no it wouldn't

Omg I just died XD

lmao so true!!

+TheAttack Cheese Oh, don't I know it. XD

+TheAttack Cheese N1K vs F-80C very fair komrade

n as

Not fast enough to save the SS Gatsby though. My Great Grand Uncle Harvey served aboard as captain and went down with the ship, because he couldn’t swim.

More like the Wrath of God

I feel exactly the same way when I see this scene. I don't know what it is but it makes me feel so proud to be an American when I see this and really proud of our Navy too. I'm really sorry that I never joined but that's another story. I feel like I really missed out on something. Oh well, what can you do.

The aerial photography on the F14s is what makes it. The pilots were really showing off for the camera. The F14 really looked pretty even with the wings spread wide, which was the only way they could possibly stay with those Zero err T6 Texans. Oh and did you notice the F14 using his flaps? Again in flying so slowly the pilot was using every trick in the book. I would even bet he split his throttles to get that big turkey to move like that.

Too Funny Dude!!

You win the comment section, good sir

'Prey' not 'pray'

Those damn tomcats

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My dad worked at Grumman in the 1970s. I still have one of the original Iranian air force tie clips and IAF (pre revolution) tomcat decal.

I worked on the F14A, hysterics and airframe. 88-92. Love the plane. Hated the snap rings on the screws. Always popped off pulling panels. FOD

We grunts are damn grateful to everyone involved in aviation, military and civilian. I worked closely with rotary-wing, of course. I also got to watch an F-16 smoke an insurgent strong point with a 500-pounder. Aviation has saved the lives of more ground-pounders than we could ever know. Sometimes the mere presence of aircraft was enough to deter any would-be attackers. If one of our birds even took fire, we were REDCON 1, if not already en route. Again, thank you very much. Charlie-Mike, we got your six.

The Tomcat is still the best looking jet ever built, only one that come even close is the F22.

This is because they didn't have to pay for the actual cost of the flying. Taxpayer did.

and all the shots on the Nimitz, the crew was actually servicemen and film crew just had to film them. so yes in a way alot of this movie was paid for by taxpayers

Truth is stranger than fiction. The X wing foils being moved to attack position is a fictional nod to the sweep back of real life variable geometry aircraft. Not explaining myself very well here.

The one order Captain Yelland never thought he'd ever have to give.

Should have been in New Zealand when it came out. We were at Wellington during a port call and were specially invited for the showing. We started cheering and shouting kick there asses etc. I looked over across the aisle at the important older invited New Zealanders in suits and nice dresses thinking were gonna get kicked out. And they were smiling and laughing at us. They knew we had just come from the Indian Ocean during the hostage crises and wanted some payback. Also I think a lot of them were WWII vets.

I was stationed with vf 171 at key west saw the whole thing it was great

One of my favorite movies. I watch it regularly.

Phrancis5 yeh, the f14 is my favorite fighter. probably the f16 after that.

Dirt Muhgert don't forget the air force's F-15. that plane is the bad ass of them all.

The best fighter ever made. The D version F-14 with the upgrades was the most lethal fighter when it was retired in 2005.

kcirred nosrednad yes, the f-15 is a nasty aircraft as well.

Dirt Muhgert Yeah, F15 is an awesome fighter as well.

ikr i loves jets i need 2 fly 1

Same they we're like HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THAT?!

Yeah, yeah. Except it never happened. All a lot of U.S. smug superiority. The reality of it was that the Japanese had air superiority over anything the U.S. had in planes in 1941.

thomas Romano no shit sherlock. The japanese had the best Navy in late 1941 and the US didnt have anything but maybe P-40s

It gave me wood.

America was Great under Reagan, no question.

It reminds me of what a load of sh*t Hollywood can put out! ;-)

You know, Iran still has some in active service. Big part of why the US was too afraid to attack them. Iran has not only maintained theirs, but they have MODERNIZED theirs, to use 21st Century munitions.

The Harley of the fleet.They even leaked hydraulic fluid like Harleys leak oil!

On the DVD, interview with The Jolly Rogers. They said it's like trying to get 3 pool balls hitting each other at same time which was impossible, they reached out to Frank Pine who had a B-25 camera plane and helped a little bit to get the scene. They said we got it 1 out of 5 times lol. Oh the camera guy in the back of the camera plane was shooting down the nose of the F-14 for the refueling scene, wanted to touch the probe with his foot. Even though Mullens shook him off, he went ahead and got launched back in the plane from the static charge. Camera guy showed up later with huge curly hair lol

We have maybe three actors who would serve now....

@@larrymor I'm not sure there's that many.....but by God, even at 82 I still hear well enough to man a sonar and I would love to ride a modern boat.....ETR2(SS)

Charles Durning was a big hit with the sailors during filming, when they were at the hotel bar. If he saw anybody from the ship he would tell them to join him and he'd buy them a beer. Ironically the only actor/actress they had a sour experience with was Katherine Ross who wasn't very nice. They wanted to say hi and she was like no I don't want to meet them, they were getting ready to film the refueling scene and another plane flew up next to them with a camera and asked if ready. Nodded and held up a sign to the camera then the plane returned back to the ship so the scene can be shot. Next day in the daily screenings first thing comes up was the camera shot of the plane with the sign reading " F U Katherine Ross! We didn't want to meet you anyways!"

Milander just milander So is the F-14, the A-10 and F/A -18 are products of the 70's.

Wedge Antilles And to add to that, the F-22 and F-35 are late-80s to late-90s designs that are put into production in the 2000s. Just some fun facts. :)

And the F/A-18 started life as the YF-17 that lost the lightweight fighter competition to the F-16 and they Navy went hmm let's take a closer look at that.

Wedge Antilles F/A-18 is a beautiful little plane. A worthy replacement for F-14. But personally, I don't like Super Hornet's design. It's like the cute lil' F/A-18 had a plastic surgery and some ridiculous boob job, and end up becoming Super Hornet. Those square air intake really turned me off.

***** But... I wasn't arguing. :|

The F-14 and the Submarine Spitfire are the most Beautiful Fighter Aircraft of all Time !

The F-22 is sexier, and deadlier.

I noticed too--BAD ASS for sure!!

Strike Fighter Squadron 103 (the Jolly Rogers), assigned to Carrier Air Wing Seven, currently flying the FA-18F Super Hornet. See the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-103

@@jamesdarnell8568 Used to be VF-84 Jolly Rogers during this time. Fighter squadron.

Skull squadron - Robotech

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Tomcat go Brrrrrrrr

That woke em up!!

Ok grandpa

Grandpa: 60 cgi fans: 3

I totally agree movies 2day have 2 much cgi

@@ussakira7294 mhm ok grandpa, go back to watching films which looks like theyre just satire cabaret. Like, grandpa, if u watch marvel movie what do you expect? Practical effects? Watch the movie that doesnt need cgi, and u wont have cgi.

I dont get it they didnt have f 35 at that time

If I remember correctly, Ward Carroll did a video about the filming of this movie, and said that the wild maneuvering when the Tomcats passed the Zeros wasn't scripted, but they actually almost went down due to the jet wash.

almost did. I saw an interview about this movie some years ago where the pilot related to the person being interviewed that when the F14s flew by the backwash is what flipped him up on his wingtip and he nearly lost the plane. The Tomcats were going 300 mph faster than they were scripted too for the scene cuz the pilots ere hotshoting.

A Tomcat will do as little as 90 mph without falling out of the sky with wings extended.

Not while, doing heavy maneuvers.

The ending is the worst. Missed an opportunity to have the coolest movie ending of all time

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lmfao, this made my day.

关公 战 秦琼 。。 ^O^

REAL tricky scene to make and record - @ 5:50 : multi-million buck F-14 nearly goes splash and is only saved by going full afterburner.

Not very sporting.

no shit right? a million dollar missile t take out a 30 thousand dollar zero? that's like using a sledgehammer to kill an ant. and what pilot would do that when the most desired kill to this day is a gun kill.

I just spit my milk through my nose. Thanks.

Yes, but you can never over estimate the "cool" factor in a movie scene!

just showing off, lol

Relax its just Holywood

They were doing more than 300mph,planes of the 4th generation if they fly slow as 300,more than half the time would have the air brakes out. But,you're right,it was a cool scene.

More like Mach 1.5. Over 1000 mph they blink and your gone.

Would this be like today, only UFO's come flying overhead at about 100' and hovering, then a bright light shines down on you and you wet your pants???? LOL

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@@trevorwerkheiser934 As a top speed. But they certainly were not going that fast in these scenes.

Unless, If the US invested on Rocket Technology back in the 1920's.

That would be cool

Weird, considering that an F-14 is almost as big as a B-17.

more like a b-25 size wise

It's all german tech in the end.

+Pat Smith Those Zeros may be made of cardboard and bubblegum, but they actually have 20mm cannons too.

True. But the Vulcan 20mm would shred a Zero.

Very small bird.

Sporkmaker5150 and did you notice? The captain of the yacht takes two 20mm shells to the chest during the first strafing run, Yet he somehow didn’t explode into a fine red mist

We used Twenty-Mike-Mikes in WWII. Fifties were adequate against the Japanese planes but the cannon's explosive shells were mighty helpful against the German bandits.

Ive heard that in the theater when he reached the bottom of his dive and flattened out above the water you could see the air from the down draft actually hit the water. He was LOW!

+Hendo56 or even from 35 years ago when this movie came out.

+Hendo56 Besides the fact that the nimitz would run out of ammo before hand

The Nimitz was (is) nuclear armed, so it could have defeated the entire Axis, not just the invasion fleet, limited only by its supply of jet fuel and ability to somehow get more if needed.

Insane, right?

Yeah, the Japanese carrier strike force was really lousy! Just to think we could have wiped them all clean out of the ocean by simply sending one "Nimitz" class carrier back in time...

pontiacGXPfan jolly rogers never die

USS Nimitz CVN-68. She was docked right in front of us (USS Constellation CV-64) in San Diego over at North Island back in 1987.

Norfolk, in mid 70's !~

FIGHTING 84

VF-84 then. VFA-103 today

The Zero's were also awesome at the time, a great plane, and a zero vs and equal American plane in 1941, the zeros win.

@@tenfourproductionsllc They had their time, yes they did. Then we captured a Zero, sent it back to the states, and built the F6F-5 Hellcat, which just shredded the Zeros from then on.

It's a very good movie! One of my all time favorites!! 😉🥰 And this scene with the F-14's taking down those pathetic little Mitsubishi Zeros is hilarious!

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In the one scene where the Tomcat lights the burners low on the deck he had stalled according to the pilot.

The A6m could easily do 300 mph. Giving the gap between stall on the F14 and the Zero plenty of maneuvering room.

Not that it's a true representation, but in the old Jane's simulations, it wasn't a walk in the park to take out WW2 aircraft with modern fighters. You damn near had to stall just to get your guns lined on them, and a lot of missiles were useless as they didn't give off a large heat signature. This would be a dream simulator game though 😉

I imported a F-14 into the old MS combat flight simulator, was impossible to hit any of the ww II planes. It just go to fast. Not that MSCFS is a accurate representation of the planes but anyway.

@@thomass4471 Yes, that was so. The only way to get an advantage against the Zero in such a scenario was not in a turning duel, the Tomcats were in a continuous 'rolling scissors' bleeding energy, to try and stay with the Zero. The only realistic way to defeat them would be to make high speed passes and not try and turn with them. In a turning battle, the advantage would actually be with the Zero. The Argentinians in their Mirages discovered this to their cost when trying to dogfight with British Harriers. The Harriers were slower, but turned far better and could use their vertical thrust capability to pretty much stop dead and let the Mirage zip past, which made them a perfect heat seeker target as they tried to break clear on afterburner.

The rounds would have gone thru it like shit through a goose. But perhaps the didn't have the budget to trash it.

+BTL Y-Wing He had it set to "splash only"

+BTL Y-Wing lol well yeah, and also a Zero's machine guns would leave giant holes in the boat and people on it, too. Limited budget I guess

+sentient02970 LOL! underrated comment

I didn't see an A6M Zero anywhere in this movie. I did see a couple of converted AT-6 Texans. WWII ace-in-a-day Archie Donahue was one of the Zero pilots. The script called for the Japanese pilot to try to force the F-14 into the water. The pilot who basically did a hammerhead and pulled out real close to the water was Richard "Fox" Farrell (VF-84 XO)

Great White Shark wins.

lmao

Or Eagles vs Pigeons. ;-)

@@coolcat6303 more like Eagles vs hummingbirds

4:39 specially in this frames!.

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Probably more like "what the f#ck?!?"

Per the novelization, they had no clue what to think.

GreenCrim I’n reality they’d be extremely hard to hit I’d imagine, in a dogfight the zeros would turn on a dime, the F14s would need to zoom and boom them from a distance.

It was a hate crime.

@@Jester123ish well at super sonic speeds vs no where near supersonic speed, that is not realy a problem

Thank you

yeah, that howl was fucking awesome, it sent shivers down my spine and gave me goosebumps

@@echorhys1685 apparently the pilots wife screamed when she saw the scene and that was her scream cut in to the sound of the engine.

@@racerxr2 so did the Navy brass when they saw it.

@@racerxr2 Great editing there by the sound engineer, guess you saw the interview on the DVD featurette. Peter Douglas walks up to Fox Farrell afterwards saying "Great job Fox, that's gonna sell a lot of tickets!" While Emory Brown looked at him like, "What did you do?"

@@curmudgeonextraordinaire1884 Navy Brass didn't see it until the premiere, they kept it hidden until the film was out. The Chief of Naval Operations said they did real good, great promotion, and how low did he go? When informed that Fox went down to ONLY 100 FEET above the water but was well controlled the whole way, the CNO said well it looked damn good!