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2. Toward the Unknown - Wikipedia

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   USAF Major Lincoln Bond was captured during the Korean War and subjected to torture, finally cracking after 14 months and signing a confession used for propaganda.Upon his release, he took a year to recover from the ordeal before showing up at the Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, hoping to return to work as a test pilot.

3. A Gathering of Eagles - Wikipedia

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   A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 SuperScope Eastmancolor film about the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the World War II film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote, with elements also mirroring Above and Beyond and Toward the Unknown, films written by his collaborator, Beirne Lay Jr.

4. Flight Command - Wikipedia

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   Flight Command had impressive aerial scenes due to the full cooperation of the US Navy, with the loan of VF-6 squadron, flying Grumman F3F biplanes. [4] Noted film pilot and aerial sequence director Paul Mantz was the "air boss" on the production, in charge of all the flying scenes. [ 5 ]

5. Thunder Birds (1942 film) - Wikipedia

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   Technicolor shots of aircraft at Thunderbird Field were the highlight of Thunder Birds. Thunder Birds was intended by Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck to be a follow-up to his popular A Yank in the R.A.F., given the working title of A Tommy in the U.S.A. Using the pen name "Melville Crossman," Zanuck himself wrote the original story.

6. Category:Films about naval aviation - Wikipedia

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   Films set on aircraft carriers (21 P) Pages in category "Films about naval aviation" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.

7. Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X - Wikipedia

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   Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X (also known as Queen of the Flat Tops and Torpedo Squadron Eight) is a black-and-white 1944 war film about the heroic crew of an American aircraft carrier in the desperate early days of World War II in the Pacific theater, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Don Ameche, Dana Andrews and William Eythe.

8. Military aviation - Wikipedia

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   Aircraft also played a much expanded role, with many notable engagements being decided solely through the use of military aircraft, such as the Battle of Britain or the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the conclusion of the Pacific War against Japan was marked by two lone aircraft dropping the atomic bombs, devastating the cities of Hiroshima and ...

9. List of active United States military aircraft - Wikipedia

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   6 test aircraft and 1 production aircraft have been delivered. 20 on order. 42 planned. [64] MQ-1B Predator: General Atomics: USA Propeller Multi-mission Unmanned [citation needed] 1 [2] MQ-9A Reaper: General Atomics: USA Propeller Multi-mission [65] Unmanned 2007, 2015 (ER) [66] 102 [2] BQM-167 Skeeter: Composite Engineering: Jet Target drone ...