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This Video Filmed By an Aircraft Carrier Crew Looks Better Than Top Gun
Beautiful timelapses and awesome angles filmed with GoPros inside F-18 cockpits. That's what you will find in this video filmed by the men and women of the US Navy. (gizmodo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I click on it and all I get is a gizmodo ad....
Good vid - Not better or worse than TopGun, just different. I miss the 14, but the new super hornets are nice. I just wish I could get to fly them instead of commercial / private aircraft only. But I am thankful for every day I could fly at all. Since my spinal injury I haven't been up (nearly 2 years). Enjoy it while it lasts guys - I hope I will get better so I can fly again. It is such a privilege to pilot a plane. Only a speck in time we have had the ability, how lucky for us we live now!
I repeat an original observation, we have to pay these people why?
Re the video editing: I think the people who did the original 'Magic Carpet Ride in F18 Hornet' got it right. There's a recent version with chopped up music for people who like that style; this link is for the original.
youtube.com/watch?v=C0ZTaXnjmIo&feature=related
youtube.com/watch?v=C0ZTaXnjmIo&feature=related
Fighters are like girl friends, "Love the One You're With!" From an old veteran Dart and Viper driver.
GO NAVY
As regards the editing, I couldn't agree more. I think it's a matter of age. So much of the video these days is built by and geared toward a young audience. One that's accustomed this type of chopped up visual soup. The person or persons who put this together weren't, IMHO, thinking of pilots as their audience, but more of an advertisement or display piece for a young viewer.
As far as the aircraft, never been in either, won't ever, so sad. Still unclear why we pay those people to fly those things. I'd do it for free. Heard a friend of a friend talk about the time he took a female TV reporter from San Diego up for a little check ride in an F-18 off the Enterprise. She squealed like a baby from the cat shoot on, and to hear him tell it, and this is all hearsay, it was an epic weekend. Friggin' fighter pilots.......
As far as the aircraft, never been in either, won't ever, so sad. Still unclear why we pay those people to fly those things. I'd do it for free. Heard a friend of a friend talk about the time he took a female TV reporter from San Diego up for a little check ride in an F-18 off the Enterprise. She squealed like a baby from the cat shoot on, and to hear him tell it, and this is all hearsay, it was an epic weekend. Friggin' fighter pilots.......