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Wings of Gold:Us Navy Aircraft [VHS]

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This VHS is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen of naval aviation. It has nearly 60 minutes of footage most people have never seen, and some really cool carrier footage. Quite a lot of it is outdated, many from 1974 to 1990, and some of the aircraft displayed do not exist anymore. Nevertheless, it gives accurate descriptions of US Navy aircraft, some incredible Topgun training footage, and actual voice recordings and gun camera footage from the 1989 Libyan MiG shoot-down. It is quite awesome to listen to, although the footage it incorporates are all stock footage and not of the real incident. In fact, the F-14 Tomcats shown flying are the of the wrong squadron, which is VF-84 Jolly Rogers, when the actual shoot-down involved Tomcats from VF-32! THe footage is in fact from the late 1970s. In addition, there is an awesome Blue Angels sequence, showing them doing their deomnstration. The soundtrack is, strangely enough, pretty cool, especially the Blue Angels music. It is worth watching and collecting, even if a little out-of-date.