A little U S Air Force humor

[Elwyn Aud]

Way back when F-86's were the top of the line.

[Clint Ormosen]

That was great! Watched it twice.

[Dennis Adamisin]

Great find     

WTG Elwyn!   

[Douglas Ames]

Almost as corny as John Wayne in "Jet Pilot". Funny stuff 

[Tom Niebuhr]

Thanks Elwyn, that was great. Don Hutchinson worked on F-86s he will love this.

[Randy Ryan]

Almost as corny as John Wayne in "Jet Pilot". Funny stuff 

Ya beat me to that one!!! But, there is some great F-86 footage in that movie.

[Will Davis]

Thanks Elwyn,

Will

[Paul Smith]

Almost as corny as John Wayne in "Jet Pilot". Funny stuff 

The attached video was a great piece of editing, working with 1950-vintage 8 & 16 mm black & white movies.

In defense of "Jet Pilot", produced by the late-great Howard Hughes, who did the original biplane epic after The Great War (later renamed WWI). 

Howard wanted to make a jet fighter movie and he made a  jet fighter movie.  Unfortunately, by the time it was done, Howard realized it wqs outdated and in accurate.

But, post mortum, the heirs of RKO realized that nothing containing John Wayne, Janet Leigh, and the F-86 Sabre could ever be kept off the screen.


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[john e. holliday]

That was funny.  Yes the old movies of war was interesting when pilots would take off in one plane.  Have mid air combat in another type of plane and then land back at base with their plane.   

[Ward Van Duzer]

As an ex F-86 mech I really thought that was pretty pathetic...I can't imagine any air group pulling one apart in the outdoors. Do any of you realize that a supersonic jet fighter is held together with 4 bolts?

W.

[Paul Smith]

The F-86 wasn't supersonic, but the T-38 is.

I've seen 'em pull the tail section off a Thunderbirds T-38, outdoors, then put it back on and fly it. In addition to the 4 bolts, there must be some electric and hydraulic work that calls for some skeels.

[Steve Fitton]

As an ex F-86 mech I really thought that was pretty pathetic...I can't imagine any air group pulling one apart in the outdoors. Do any of you realize that a supersonic jet fighter is held together with 4 bolts?

W.

Whoah!  You must be reeeely old!

[Allen Brickhaus]

Sent this on to my Internet buddies, this was great.

Thanks,

Allen Brickhaus

[Clancy Arnold]

The thing I enjoyed the most in that movie was the Russian F-89D's.

An old F-89D Radar Mechanic.
Clancy

[Mike Callas]

Almost as corny as John Wayne in "Jet Pilot". Funny stuff 

Given the pap coming out of the "entertainment industry", I'll take a corny 60 year ol Jet Pilot movie any day.
My favorites are still Waldo, Airforce and Hell's Angels.

Happy Thanksgiving All!!

Mike