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Surface to Air

From The Internet Movie Plane Database
Surface to Air VHS cover.

Movie (1998)
French title : Désert Fox

Starring:
Michael Madsen (Sergeant Zach)
Chad Mc Queen (Lieutnant Dylan)
Melanie Shatner (Lori Forrester)
Teri Thompson (Clarissa)

Torn apart by hatred... Brought together by survival.
Two brothers, one pilot of the U.S. Navy, the other one an enlisted Marines are on the same vessel... One of them fall, what do the other one ?
This 1998 low-budget production features numerous aviation sequences based mainly on U.S. Air Force and US Navy Promotional films, several of them being reused later in Active Stealth and Storm Catcher or Reptisaurus or during the first minutes of Red Sky (2014). On the contrary, some sequences are taken from the film Top Gun.


Sikorsky H-34 or Sikorsky HSS-1

One of the few original filming including aircraft.

Grumman F-14 Tomcat

Model kit on the chimney.

Lockheed S-3 Viking

McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet

A McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet between two Grumman F-14 Tomcats.

Launch to support the two Tomcats dogfighting six bogeys.

Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler

Seen passing in front of the Greyhound (see below).

Mitsubishi SH-60J Seahawk

Grumman C-2A Greyhound

Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye

Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon

Supposed to be an Iraki bogey/contender but the US low-viz roudel is on each wing ... of this (Israeli) F-16 Netz. From the Iron Eagle franchise.

Northrop F-5E Tiger II

Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight

(left edge) Sikorsky CH-53 Super Stallion.

Bell AH-1J SeaCobra

Opening the path to a Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight.

Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon

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