The Final Countdown

[ChrisCwmbran]

First let me say, I wasn't sure where to post this - so if it's in the wrong place could a mod move it please!

I'm sure many of you will have seen the movie "The Final Countdown" featuring the USS Nimitz and its various air wings.

Personally I love this film.

I was therefore quite interested when I saw this video on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzMiKjzFbOg

in which an experienced F-14 pilot Ward Carroll talks about the movie.

I hope this is of interest to someone! If you haven't seen it, I think the flying sequences in this film are great!

[Blackcat1]

Loved that film! Well Kirk is in it for a start! And yep totally agree that the flying sequences are great.

Roaring past the Zeroes "Hey Fox that woke them up" !!

[PaulN]

Hi Chris

Always loved this film , much better than Top Gun IMHO shows a lot more of the Air Wing as he says.

I remember talking to the VF-84 crews aboard the Nimitz when she visited Portsmouth in 1980 and they all said that diving split S sequence was definatley not planned and the whole film was great fun to do

Still got it recorded s0mwhere , time to dig it out I think (hope)

Cheers

Paul

[Arthur Tee]

Took a couple of French Exchange Students to see that at the cinema. Their English was about as good as my French (read non-existent). It was easy enough explaining the movie title - but how much explaining did that plot take??

Arthur

[paddyboy]

Great film, imho

Ward Carroll posts some great stuff on YouTube, all worth a peek, again imho

[roughcutter]

Cracking film, even featured an RF-8.

[welshandy]

Watched it last night on DVD. Spotted a "NATC" F4 & A7E. Also RA5C Vigilante.

[red leader]

Whereabouts in the film was the Vigilante?

[roughcutter]

Seem to recall seeing an RA-5 tail in the film, scanned somewhere amongst the other airframes on the flight deck, wasn't a flight scene.

[paddyboy]

RA5C tail appears at the far right of a few stills in Ward Carroll’s video on YouTube

[welshandy]

Whereabouts in the film was the Vigilante?

At Pearl Harbor being towed(Tail code GJ). & glimpse of another on the Rear Deck of Carrier.

[red leader]

Thanks guys. Will take a look.