Project X

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Project X poster.

Movie (1987)

Starring:
Matthew Broderick (Jimmy Garrett)
Helen Hunt (Teri MacDonald)
William Sadler (Dr. Carroll)
Johnny Ray McGhee (Robertson)

An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".
Airside scenes filmed at Van Nuys Airport.

North American F-86 Sabre (mockup)

Rockwell B-1 Lancer

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird & Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25

Models behind the officer. SR-71 on the left, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 '47 blue' on the right.

Convair B-58 Hustler & Grumman F-14 Tomcat

Models on the windowsill.
A third one on the table is a twin-engine with three-bladed propeller light blue noze.
Behind Jimmy Garrett's shoulder is a picture of the Thunderbirds, the air demonstration squadron of the United States Air Force (blurred background).

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

Photo in the background.

Cessna O-2 Skymasters

Convair F-106 Delta Dart

Northrop F-5

... or Northrop F-20A Tigershark ?
This simulator model has the general shape and colors of the first F-20 prototype but still the two nozzles of the F-5.