KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11742 posts, RR: 51 Reply 1, posted (8 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 5598 times:
I've read this before. But the SR-71 is still an amazing airplane. She was a one of.......
neutrino From Singapore, joined May 2012, 392 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (8 months 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 4895 times:
The Blackbird - along with the Valkyrie - soar over the rest of my all-time favorite airplanes. I first came across it in the same black plastic Revell kit as Major Brian Shul's way back in the late 60s. Unlike the good pilot's discarded model plane, mine still occupy pride of place in my 1/72 scale fighter collection all these 4+ decades.
I would watch movies with the Blackbird in them. In one of those films, the Blackbird acts as a strike force carrier, chasing after a 747 to offload its troops to the jumbo jet in midair via an extended tube from the top of the former to the underside of the latter. Of course its all make-belief of the celluloid world but very watchable. I have forgotten the title of that movie. Anybody here know what its called?
flyingturtle From Switzerland, joined Oct 2011, 1380 posts, RR: 9 Reply 4, posted (8 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 4846 times:
Quoting neutrino (Reply 3): In one of those films, the Blackbird acts as a strike force carrier, chasing after a 747 to offload its troops to the jumbo jet in midair via an extended tube from the top of the former to the underside of the latter. Of course its all make-belief of the celluloid world but very watchable. I have forgotten the title of that movie. Anybody here know what its called?
Recently, I got across a movie that sounds similar... but then, in that movie two F-117 are carried in a C-5 from Turkey to the U.S. via Borneo, but the KC-10 (that mutates into a KC-135 between shots) was taken over by terrorists. They slide down the spacious refuelling boom into the C-5, stealing a F-117...
neutrino From Singapore, joined May 2012, 392 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (8 months 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 4650 times:
Quoting flyingturtle (Reply 4): Recently, I got across a movie that sounds similar... but then, in that movie two F-117 are carried in a C-5 from Turkey to the U.S. via Borneo, but the KC-10 (that mutates into a KC-135 between shots) was taken over by terrorists. They slide down the spacious refuelling boom into the C-5, stealing a F-117...
Calling Topboom, is the flying boom's diameter actually big enough to accommodate full-grown men sliding inside it?
OTOH, if the the miracle workers of Tinseltown can fit the Nighthawk with its 43ft+ span into the Galaxy's cargo hold, I reckon shrinking mere humans is just another day's work.
moo From Falkland Islands, joined May 2007, 3614 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (8 months 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 4634 times:
Quoting neutrino (Reply 3): In one of those films, the Blackbird acts as a strike force carrier, chasing after a 747 to offload its troops to the jumbo jet in midair via an extended tube from the top of the former to the underside of the latter. Of course its all make-belief of the celluloid world but very watchable. I have forgotten the title of that movie. Anybody here know what its called?
Sounds just like "Executive Decision", except it wasn't an SR-71, it was a "modified" F-117.
The modus operandi of personnel transfer look similar but I believe its a different movie.
My atrophying mind could be wrong in some of the details below; still this is what I recall fuzzily:
The Blackbird coupled to the 747 from under the tail section, not the front as in Executive Decision.
The men boarding the jumbo are all soldiers and the commander was a semi-darkskinned toughie who was the sole survivor of the boarding party. He was injured and was later helped by a frightened cutesy blonde stewardess.
Earlier on, the object of the hijack was a disc containing names of important people or something like that which was in the possession of some politician. During the brief of the intercept mission, mention was made of the great speed capability of the Blackbird to catch up with the jumbo. Also, I have no recollection of Kurt Russell, Halle Berry and Steven Seagal being among the cast.
But thanks anyway, moo.
Sponsor Message: 
From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 741 posts, 
From France, joined Oct 2001, 3251 posts, 
From Singapore, joined May 2012, 392 posts, 
From Switzerland, joined Oct 2011, 1380 posts, 
From Norway, joined Jan 2006, 2577 posts, 
From Falkland Islands, joined May 2007, 3614 posts, 
From Italy, joined Sep 2005, 499 posts, 
Sponsor Message: 
Printer friendly format
