Saturday, June 11, 2022

Maverick

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Let me say this up front - I loved this film.

The flying sequences were nothing short of incredible, the acting was excellent, and the story was good old-fashioned fun - good guys win!

Of course, upon awakening Saturday morning, my first thought was, "How did they do that?" So I went looking, here's what I found ...



It's impressed I was.

Will I see it again?

You betcha!

Oops, one last thought, The Missus Herself and Your Humble Scribe were rather hungry after the film, so we went to Chick-fil-A®, for the first time¹ mind you.

How was it?

Excellent.

Now I'm off on vacation, y'all behave while I'm gone as I will be checking in from time to time.

Juvat, Tuna, Beans, you've got this.




¹ Don't judge, we'd just never gotten around to it.

26 comments:

  1. I saw it on thursday, got pleasantly surprised. For one, there was unlike first movie a mission to do, involving ground target, and there was a bit of more of Navy at large doing their job, namely support cruise missiles strike. I almost expected Fanboy to comment on Star Wars after the mission brief. With callsign like that... Solid entertainmenrt, 9 mach out of 10

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    1. My remark was "I don't think we have that many TLAM's left" even after converting all the TASM's ( 'cause who's ever gonna have to fight a navy?)
      First time at CFA? Better late than never; eating one of their sandwiches now.
      Boat Guy

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    2. BG - I know, on both counts.

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    3. Pawel, if only they’d used 303 Squadron 🙄 (Hogday)

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    4. Pawel, if only they used 303 Squadron…..

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    5. HD - Well that would have been cool.

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  2. Guess I'll have to find a movie theater around here. To be honest, I don't know where one might be. Not in the Burg, that one shut down long ago. Have a nice Vacay, Sarge. See you on the RTB.

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    1. You may be able to 'rent' it via your cable/satellite provider. Worth it to be able to pause and control the volume and such.

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    2. juvat - No movie theater? Wow! You have to see it on the big screen. You will almost feel the Gs!

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    3. Beans - There is that convenience, but oh that big screen. (See above.)

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  3. Hey Old AFSarge;

    I enjoyed the movie although the threat analysis part of me commented to the spousal unit after the movie was, they were using Iran as a Proxy because they are the only country that has F14's we did until we retired them in the 90's. and they used the SA-3 SAM system as their primary SAM system although I had to look up the 5th generation stealth fighter the proxy was using...I didn't recognize that one. the SU-57 Felon. Dang good movie, will buy the DVD when it comes out. Sure I could buy it on digital, but I actually like owning it on "Hardcopy".

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    1. Spicy chicken sandwich & waffle fries. Delicious!

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  5. Excellent movie. .Possibly the best made in the last decade! One question popped up a couple days after I saw it. From a non pilot, what are the odds (spoiler alert) that when he lost his front landing gear, on the short runway takeoff with the F-14, he did not rip open a hydraulic line and start losing hydraulic fluid that could have affected his later maneuverability?

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    1. Talked to one of my Naval Aviator sons-in-law (Tuttle), though there are hydraulic lines down to the wheel itself, severing those lines wouldn't cause that much fluid loss.

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    2. Good to know! I'd hate to think they pulled a Hollywood fast one on me!

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    3. Several separate systems and the flight control hydraulics not hooked up to the landing gear extension or braking system.

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  6. Sharon and I saw it on the 29th of May. We thoroughly enjoyed it. The seats in the theatre had the motion feature and it was fun. The cat shots were a bit mild as the shuttle hitting the water brake is a solid bang! The guy next to me asked if I had done it and I told him about being shot in the Venerable Grumman C-1A Trader. He simply said, Wow!

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    1. In the Trader? Yup, that's a wow.

      Motion seats? Yup, I want that, I need that.

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    2. Even as a humble blackshoe, er professional surface warfare officer, I lucked into two COD rides in the venerable C-1 (they were still kinda new back in the early 1970s....). One cat shot and one deck run launch. I was too ignorant to know or care much, but never have been a fan of defying gravity, but it was kinda fun at the time.
      John Blackshoe

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    3. When we were young we thought ourselves invincible.

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