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F-14 returns to carrier ops


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... for Top Gun shoot only. Yeah, sorry about that.:lol:

 

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26505/an-f-14-tomcat-has-returned-to-the-deck-of-an-operational-carrier-for-top-gun-2-production

 

We have been following the production of the highly anticipated sequel to Top Gun closely, a movie that is now deep in production. Last time we discussed the movie's development was in regards to the revelation that the F-14 Tomcat would make at least a cameo appearance in the film, if not having a starring role. This came as photos leaked of Tom Cruise interacting with an F-14 at a snow-covered aircraft shelter at an airport near Lake Tahoe and also shooting some scenes in the vicinity around it. The jet, which was a real aircraft that was likely pulled from a museum, had special phoenix markings unique to the movie, as well. Now that same jet has appeared aboard an operational U.S. Navy aircraft carrier at Naval Station North Island in San Diego.

 

Images of the jet show Cruise and a production crew working around the Tomcat that is positioned on one of the carrier's two bow catapults. So it, is quite likely that this aircraft will be seen operating from an aircraft carrier in the film and is more than just a single scene plot tool within the script. Apparently, the airframe was also used for scenes shot at NAS North Island, which is colocated with the naval base.

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They actually have footage of it flying in the film too apparently. Without CGI.

where would they get the money to take out a notoriously expensive to maintain aircraft aircraft to fly after how long in storage?

say we humor the conspiracists that the f-14 were not all gutted -- would you really expose such a deception for the sake of a movie?

 

none of it adds up for me


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where would they get the money to take out a notoriously expensive to maintain aircraft aircraft to fly after how long in storage?

say we humor the conspiracists that the f-14 were not all gutted -- would you really expose such a deception for the sake of a movie?

 

none of it adds up for me

 

That is extremely unlikely at best.

 

It could be stock footage! :thumbup:

Reformers hate him! This one weird trick found by a bush pilot will make gunfighter obsessed old farts angry at your multi-role carrier deck line up!

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Wouldn't there be one or two Tomcats conserved in flying condition somewhere? As part of a memorial flight or something?

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They actually have footage of it flying in the film too apparently. Without CGI.

aerial filming is ongoing and actual footage of aircraft in flight be used extensively in the movie.
not exactly the most precise writing but im sure the article meant that they're filming fa-18 footage which you mistook as still being on the subject of the f-14.
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There is zero chance the footage is of a real flying F-14.

 

There are *no* air worthy Tomcats in the US, period.

 

I would offer the possibility that that is a hasty opinion and perhaps a little naive. Certainly a country that can successfully use airliners to inject chemicals into the sky for decades, maintain extraterrestrial artifacts at a top secret location, AND fake the MOON LANDING! would find little difficulty clandestinely maintaining one or two airworthy F-14 just for emergencies. :noexpression:

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I would offer the possibility that that is a hasty opinion and perhaps a little naive. Certainly a country that can successfully use airliners to inject chemicals into the sky for decades, maintain extraterrestrial artifacts at a top secret location, AND fake the MOON LANDING! would find little difficulty clandestinely maintaining one or two airworthy F-14 just for emergencies. :noexpression:

 

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I would offer the possibility that that is a hasty opinion and perhaps a little naive. Certainly a country that can successfully use airliners to inject chemicals into the sky for decades, maintain extraterrestrial artifacts at a top secret location, AND fake the MOON LANDING! would find little difficulty clandestinely maintaining one or two airworthy F-14 just for emergencies. :noexpression:

 

Why would they want to maintain two painfully obsolete cold war relics?

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