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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: RicOShay on November 11, 2012, 09:42:14 PM
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Air raid scene from Steven Spielberg's movie "Empire of the Sun". For those who have never seen the movie it's about an eleven year old boy separated from his british parents in china who ends up in a japanese POW camp.
The P-51D flyby was the only real plane the rest were RC models that look amazingly real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ouJ_WyS9v8&feature=related
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That same kid died in battle under Henry V during St Crispians Day
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The "kid" is Christian Bale in his first movie way back in 1987. If you haven't seen Empire of the Sun I highly recommend seeing it.
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:headscratch:
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:lol
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:cheers:
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That movie is wicked depressing, but a good one. The zero-ized at6 always bothers me haha.
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Hmmm cadillac of the sky is what iv alwaysheard is the blackhawk. Post got me confused
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The "kid" is Christian Bale in his first movie way back in 1987. If you haven't seen Empire of the Sun I highly recommend seeing it.
Ditto!
A great film and one of my favorites.
:aok :aok
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The "kid" is Christian Bale in his first movie way back in 1987. If you haven't seen Empire of the Sun I highly recommend seeing it.
that's why i didn't like the movie very much...can't stand christian bale.
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dont hold your manhood cheap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rid8U-el1pQ
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That movie is wicked depressing, but a good one. The zero-ized at6 always bothers me haha.
Nice ,i read your comment and seen "wicked" i was like ,o yea this guy is from NewEngland.
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It's wicked pisssahhh
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It's wicked pisssahhh
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Manchester NH raised me :aok
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Apparently his bombs didn't travel 500 feet through the air at the end of the clip...
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That's my favorite film scene of all time.
It's called skip bombing... Using time- rather than contact-fuzes. Also they used three Old Flying Machine Company P-51's in the filming, not just one. Mark Hanna flew one of them. The skip bombing and strafing scenes were done with the real Ponies and "real" bombs (inert of course). RC models were used for IJAA/IJN aircraft that blew up. The pilot doing the fly-by, waving to young Bale, was Ray Hanna; the founder of the Old Flying Machine Company, and father of Mark Hanna. Unfortunately, Mark and Ray are no longer with us.
Article by Mark Hanna:
http://vintageaeroplanewriter.blogspot.no/2011/12/skip-bombing-p-51s-in-empire-of-sun.html
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Apparently his bombs didn't travel 500 feet through the air at the end of the clip...
As I remember from the movie the bombs skip bounce down the runway and into a hanger which blows up in a spectacular explosion.
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The flyby of the mustang in the movie with the pilot waving at Jim really brought back memories of my youth. I grew up in Ohio near the old Akron Naval Air Station and there used to be a picnic area near the threshold of one of the runways. It was the summer of 1955, I was six years old, and I was with my dad on a hill near the edge of the runway and at least a dozen Navy Air National Guard pilots were landing in their deep blue gull winged F-4U Corsairs. One by one they would pass by us at eye level, so close I could almost reach out and touch them. I remembered the planes made a high pitch shrill whistling noise as they passed by with their landing gear and flaps deployed and with their bubble canopies slid all the way back you could clearly see the pilots. One by one as they passed by the pilots turned their heads towards us and either waved or saluted. Like Jim in the movie I was awe struck, and almost sixty years later I am still awe struck by that sureal event. Was it all a dream?
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I think the most awesome thing about the 51 is how incredibly it demoralized the enemy.
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I have always liked that movie...but dang man it was a long one.