TOPGUN Meets BBC Sailor Series

[sketchy74]

So what do you do when bored on a flight home from a business trip with all of the 1976 BBC Sailor Series and Adobe Premiere on your Tablet....?

For someone who grew up in a Fleet Air Arm household in the 70's and 80's both Sailor and TOPGUN were required viewing / mickey taking...I could not resist showing how I am sure that Tony Scott and Jerry Bruckenheimer were influenced by Auntie Beeb some ten years previous some of the Sailor footage is timeless.

As I said just a bit of fun....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuCC6leHUUg

Cheers,

Fraser

[DaveG]

Nicely done Fraser.

[FlyTexas]

Enjoyed the video. Thanks Fraser! Did anyone catch this in the opening credits?

[DaveB]

Ah!!

Actually.. I sat and watched 'hours' (literally) of Ark Royal V's last deployments on the box yesterday and very good it was too I noticed one of the wafu's had an Air Wolves patch on his arm he'd obviously bummed off a Yank wafu (Air Wolves are USN HSL-40 and fly UH60 Seahawks) and I knew that due to FSX.

Now.. what was this thread about again?

ATB
DaveB

[gordon-in-aberdeen]

Smashing stuff Fraser, was actually disappointed it didn't go on even longer when it finished
It had potential to be the best Royal Navy clip on YouTube there

[Effoh]

Really enjoyed that Fraser

[Chris Trott]

Really enjoyed that. Wonder how many of the shots from Top Gun were inspired by Sailor and other documentaries of the mid-late '70s.