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"Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye of the Viper are poised for the toughest assignment of their career: the exhaustive six-month training course at Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, at a cost of $2 million each. Luke, the world's largest fighter wing, is the only F-16 fighter training base in the United States, and each year it produces one thousand pilots who will fly the F-16 from Korea to Afghanistan...
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The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility...
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"Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology during the Cold War. Over 1,404 wartime missions, Hartmann claimed a staggering 352 airborne kills, and his career contains all the dramas you would expect. There were the frostbitten fighter sweeps over the Eastern Front, drunken forays to Hitler's Eagle's...
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"Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo: Lieutenant Tom Hudner, a white New Englander from the country-club scene, and Ensign Jesse Brown, an African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi. Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighter planes for his country. Jesse became the navy's first black carrier pilot to defend a nation that wouldn't even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation,...
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Author Don Brown (Treason) sat down with Yelllin, ninety-three years old, to tell the story of the final combat mission of World War II. Nine days after Hiroshima, on the morning of August 14th, Yellin and his wingman 1st Lieutenant Phillip Schlamberg took off from Iwo Jima to bomb Tokyo. By the time Yellin returned to Iwo Jima, the war was officially over, but his young friend Schlamberg would never get to hear the news. The Last Fighter Pilot is...
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"The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just...
12) Top Gun
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1 Blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A daredevil Navy pilot, striving to be the best at a Top Gun flight school, doubts his abilities when his best friend is killed in training.
14) Top Gun
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Paramount
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At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground. Bonus features include commentary, featurette, music videos, behind-the-scenes, and more.
15) Flyboys
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MGM DVD
Pub. Date
c2006
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Fullscreen.
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1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A story of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered to be part of the French military prior to the United States' involvement in WWI, and how they became the country's first fighter pilots.
17) The Red Baron
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Monterey Video
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[2010]
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Widescreen edition.
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1 Blu-ray (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Europe, 1916: Baron Manfred von Richthofen is a crack pilot of the German aerial combat forces, a legend in his own time, a hero at home, and a man both feared and respected by the enemy. Von Richthofen and his fellow officers see their duels in the sky as tactical, almost sportsmanlike, challenges. But, when he falls in love with Kate, she opens his eyes to the fact that there is more to war than dogfights and he becomes aware of his role in the...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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[2009]
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25th anniversary ed.
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1 blu-ray (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"After Earthling Alex (Lance Guest) conquers the Starfighter video game, he is recruited by alien Centauri (Robert Preston) to be part of an elite legion of fighters. Leaving behind his trailer park home for the outer regions of space, Alex becomes the last hope for the beleaguered Star League and hundreds of worlds -- including Earth."--Container.
19) Stealth
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
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Widescreen special ed.; [2-disc, high definition].
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2 DVDs (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Three Navy pilots are charged with stopping a fighter jet piloted by a computer that has developed a mind of its own before it incites a war.
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